For the ECMWF ecCodes table format you might need to provide both master and local table if the local sequence descriptor contains descriptors not included in the local table: bufrresolve.pl 301193 --tablepath /disk1/eccodes/run/share/eccodes/definitions/bufr/tables --bufrtable "0/wmo/29,0/local/8/78/236" --tableformat ECCODES with output 1 054201 YEAR OF DECODING [a] 0 0 12 2 054202 MONTH OF DECODING [mon] 0 0 4 3 054203 DAY OF DECODING [d] 0 0 6 4 054204 HOUR OF DECODING [h] 0 0 5 5 054205 MINUTE OF DECODING [min] 0 0 6 6 054211 NUMBER OF DAY OF MRZ BACK-UP FILE [d] 0 0 6 7 054212 NUMBER OF RECORD ON MRZ BACK-UP FILE [Numeric] 0 0 18 8 054213 DECODING RUNNING ON MFA/MFB (VALUES 1/0) [Numeric] 0 0 2 9 002192 COR MESSAGE MARK [Code table] 0 0 8 10 002193 PSEUDO REPORT [Flag table] 0 0 2 11 002201 OVERALL QUALITY BITS [Code table] 0 0 5 204005 12 031021 ASSOCIATED FIELD SIGNIFICANCE [CODE TABLE] 0 0 6 13 005002 LATITUDE (COARSE ACCURACY) [deg] 2 -9000 15 14 006002 LONGITUDE (COARSE ACCURACY) [deg] 2 -18000 16 15 004001 YEAR [a] 0 0 12 16 004002 MONTH [mon] 0 0 4 17 004003 DAY [d] 0 0 6 18 004004 HOUR [h] 0 0 5 19 004005 MINUTE [min] 0 0 6 204000