BUFR Decoders

The complete BUFR documentation is available here.

NCEP BUFR libraries with documentation and sample code can be found at: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/sib/decoders/BUFRLIB/

Definitions for BUFR MNEMONIC headers can be found at: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/bufrtab_tableb.htm

NCEP specific descriptors can be found at: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/bufrtab_tabled.htm

Definitions for PREPBUFR MNEMONIC headers and some code tables can be found at: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/prepbufr.doc/table_1.htm

A description of PREPBUFR processing at NCEP can be found at: http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/prepbufr.doc/document.htm

A BUFR file decoder for NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis prepqm files can be found here.

For our NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, GCIP, NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observation Subsets, and NCEP ADP Global Surface Observations archives, their BUFR decoders are available in the corresponding datasets.

If you have any comments or suggestions regarding to the information above, please contact Chi-Fan Shih or Doug Schuster. updated 5/25/2005