Welcome to pdbufr’s documentation

Important

This software is Graduated and subject to ECMWF’s guidelines on Software Maturity.

pdbufr is a Python package implementing a Pandas reader for the BUFR format using ecCodes. It features the read_bufr() function to extract data from a BUFR file as a Pandas DataFrame using a rich filtering engine.

pdbufr supports BUFR 3 and 4 files with uncompressed and compressed subsets. It works on Linux, MacOS and Windows, the ecCodes C-library is the only binary dependency.

Quick start

import pdbufr

# Read a radiosonde BUFR file and extract temperature profiles
# for the first two stations
df = pdbufr.read_bufr(
    "tests/sample_data/temp.bufr",
    reader="generic",
    columns=["latitude", "longitude", "pressure", "airTemperature"],
    filters={"count": [1, 2]},
)

Examples

Examples

Documentation

Installation

Indices and tables

Index