FM15-transform 0.0.8

Package for converting FM15 METAR TAC messages or an individual METAR message to BUFR4

FM15_transform

FM15_transform provides functionality to transform raw FM15 (METAR) TAC messages into their corresponding bufr4 translations as well as extraction of geojson records of the individual observations formatted for use by a WIS2 node.

Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.7 and above
• ecCodes

Dependencies

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt. Dependencies are automatically installed during FM15_transform installation.

Environment Variable Configuration

The cfunits library contains UDUNITS-2. Per the documentation on cfunits found here

pip

Install latest stable version from PyPI.

pip3 install FM15_transform

Transform FM15 files from the command line

#   basic cli command to transform TAC file of metar(s) and print resulting geojson records
#   both month and year as int values
transform-file example_metars.txt month year

Releasing

#   upload to PyPI
#   make sure to update version number in pyproject.toml using vim or another IDE
rm -fr dist *.egg-info
python3 -m build
twine upload dist/*