Meteorology in Debian Science
The Sentinel page gathers meteorology packages.
Meteorology tools in Debian / currently being packaged
Data Manipulation
cdo Climate Data Operators (in NEW queue)
arkimet Arkimet is a set of tools to archive, dispatch and distribute data files."
DB-All.e upstream Database for working with punctual meteorological data. It can also be used only as a BUFR encoder and decoder library.
Libraries
Analysis and Visualization
Software that could be included in Debian
oasis OASIS Coupler
zyGrib GRIB file viewer
NCL : NCAR Command language
HDF-EOS : extension of HDF for Earth Observation Systems: The library supports the construction of new data structures: Grid, Point and Swath.
Issues:
SZIP Compression
SZIP is a compression library for HDF and other scientific data. HDF which we ship, can be built against it, but SZIP is patented (US only?) and is free for non-commercial use (ie. not DFSG-free). It is unlikely to change and we could not ship it (can it be shipped in non-free ?). However it would be desirable for HDF on Debian to be able to use it if present: hence a patch could be written to dynamically open it if present.