The following software packages are available from ECMWF's collaborative website. Member and Co-operating States' national meteorological services should first check with Software Support for availability of additional software.
Software or collaboration projects
| Software | Description |
Free download
(unless stated otherwise) |
|---|---|---|
| ecCodes | Encodes and decodes WMO FM-92 GRIB messages (editions 1 and 2) and WMO FM-94 BUFR messages (editions 3 and 4). Note: ecCodes is an evolution of GRIB API |
Download ecCodes |
| ecFlow |
Enables users to run a large number of programs (with dependencies on each other and on time) in a controlled environment. |
Download ecFlow |
| Magics | Supports the plotting of contours, wind fields, observations, satellite images, symbols, text, axes and graphs (including boxplots). | Download Magics |
| Metview |
Accesses, manipulates and visualises meteorological data. |
Download Metview |
| Aeolus | ECMWF and KNMI develop the Aeolus Level-2B wind retrieval software, the main output of which are HLOS wind observations, which are suitable for use in NWP and meteorological research. | Request Aeolus download |
| Web API | ECMWF Web API is a set of services developed by ECMWF to allow users from the outside to access some internal features and data of the centre. | |
| ECaccess | ECaccess provides a portal for registered users to access the ECMWF computing and archiving facilities with single step authentication from anywhere on the Internet. | Download ECaccess |
Discontinued software
| Software | Description |
|---|---|
| BUFRDC | Encodes and decodes WMO FM-94 BUFR code messages. Includes tools for conversion between BUFR and CREX. |
| EMOSLIB | Includes interpolation software and BUFR, CREX encoding and decoding routines. |