eps2ropp

[Huw Lewis]

A tool to convert from EUMETSAT eps format to ROPP netCDF would be useful. There is currently a python tool which does this. Basing a conversion tool on this would be a possible solution.

Comments from Dave:

We don't have an eps2ropp tool in ROPP (or anywhere else!). I did 
try to get Axel's Python-based script (which interfaces with 
EUGENE) going, but without success. And while EUGENE is publically
 available, I'm not sure Axle's script was - I recall downloading 
it from his area of the EUMETSAT ftp server, and it would not be 
supported.
 Since none of us know the first thing about Python, we 
dropped it. We don't ourselves have any great need for reading EPS
 files, so it doesn't have any priority.



But Huw & I were thinking that we ought to have  such a tool in 
ROPP_IO at some point, maybe instead based on the DMI tool 
(whatever that's written in?).

[Dave Offiler]

Tim Patterson at EUMETSAT has provided me with a package having a Fortran-based API to read EPS-format files. Apart from compiling and reading a test file (with assistance from Tim), I've not had time to take this further for ROPP purposes. But this package may prove to be a better bet, being more compatible with other ROPP F95-based converter tools, than Python or some other mixed-language hacks.

[Ian Culverwell]

Postponed to CDOP-2.

[Ian Culverwell]

Superseded by new netCDF4 EUM output. Permission to drop granted at ROPP-GG meeting 20 June 2012. Suggest leaving ticket open until ROPP documentation checked.

[Dave Offiler]

Dropped - netCDF4-based eum2ropp now available in v6.1