id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
206	eps2ropp	Huw Lewis	Dave Offiler	"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:
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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?).

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"	enhancement	closed	normal	Whenever	ropp_io	4.0	wontfix