This library performs binary I/O for the NCEP models, processing unformatted byte-addressable data records, and transforming the little endian files and big endian files.

This is part of the NCEPLIBS project.

For more detailed documentation see https://noaa-emc.github.io/NCEPLIBS-bacio/.

To submit bug reports, feature requests, or other code-related issues including installation and usage questions, please create a GitHub issue. For general NCEPLIBS inquiries, contact Ed Hartnett (secondary point of contact Alex Richert).

The NCEPLIBS-bacio library is used by:

• NCEPLIBS-w3emc
• NCEPLIBS-g2
• NCEPLIBS-grib_util
• UFS_UTILS
• UPP
• ufs-weather-model
• UFS Short-Range Weather Application

Robert Grumbine, Mark Iredell, Jun Wang, Dexin Zhang, other NCEP/EMC Developers

Code Manager: Hang Lei, Ed Hartnett

Download the latest release from https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/NCEPLIBS-bacio/releases and untar it and cd into the main directory. Then:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install ..
make -j2
make install

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