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Will create a BUFR message printed to STDOUT based on data and metadata in files <data file> and <metadata file> respectively. Usage: /metno/local/bin/bufrencode.pl -d <data file> -m <metadata file> or /metno/local/bin/bufrencode.pl --data <data file> --metadata <metadata file> Options: --help Will print this help message and then exit --outfile <filename> Will print encoded BUFR messages to <filename> instead of STDOUT --verbose n Set verbose level to n, 0<=n<=3 (default 0). Verbose output is sent STDOUT, so ought to be combined with option --outfile --tablepath <path to BUFR tables> If used, will set path to BUFR tables. If not set, will fetch tables from the environment variable BUFR_TABLES, or if this is not set: will use /usr/local/lib/bufrtables/ For the metadata file, use this as prototype and change the values as desired: BUFR_EDITION 4 MASTER_TABLE 0 CENTRE 98 SUBCENTRE 0 UPDATE_NUMBER 0 OPTIONAL_SECTION 0 DATA_CATEGORY 0 INT_DATA_SUBCATEGORY 0 LOC_DATA_SUBCATEGORY 255 MASTER_TABLE_VERSION 13 LOCAL_TABLE_VERSION 1 YEAR 2008 MONTH 9 DAY 1 HOUR 6 MINUTE 0 SECOND 0 OBSERVED_DATA 1 COMPRESSED_DATA 0 DESCRIPTORS_UNEXPANDED 308004 012005 002002 For BUFR edition < 4, replace the lines INT_DATA_SUBCATEGORY, LOC_DATA_SUBCATEGORY, YEAR and SECOND with new lines DATA_SUBCATEGORY and YEAR_OF_CENTURY (the order of lines doesn't matter). For the data file, use the same format as would result if you did run on the generated BUFR message bufrread.pl <bufr file> --data_only | cut -c -31 (or if you use bufrread.pl with --width n, replace 31 with n+16). For example, the file might begin with 1 001195 Newport 2 005002 51.55 3 006002 -2.99 4 004001 2008 ... Every time a new line starting with the number 1 is met, a new subset will be generated in the BUFR message. Lines not starting with a number are ignored. For missing values, use 'missing' or stop the line after the BUFR descriptor. Associated values should use BUFR descriptor 999999. To encode a NIL subset, all delayed replication factors should be set to 1, and all other values set to missing except for the descriptors defining the station.