ANN: First public release of cfgrib a GRIB driver for xarray based on ecCodes

[Alessandro Amici]

On behalf of ECMWF I'm pleased to announce the first public release
of `cfgrib`, a Python interface to map GRIB files to the NetCDF Common
Data Model following the CF Conventions using ECMWF ecCodes for
decoding. Included in the package is a GRIB driver for xarray.

    https://pypi.org/project/cfgrib/0.8.4

Please note that the development stage of this project is **Alpha**.

Features:

- provisional GRIB driver for xarray,
- support all modern versions of Python 3.7, 3.6, 3.5 and 2.7, plus
  PyPy and PyPy3,
- read the data lazily and efficiently in terms of both memory usage
  and disk access,
- map a GRIB 1 or 2 file to a set of N-dimensional variables following
  the NetCDF Common Data Model,
- add CF Conventions attributes to known coordinate and data variables,
- no write support (yet).

The main repository is hosted on GitHub, testing, bug report and
contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated. Every little help
counts, so do not hesitate!

    https://github.com/ecmwf/cfgrib

User support questions are best asked on StackOverflow:

   https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=cfgrib

The project is free and open source software distributed under the
terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0, the development is led by
B-Open <http://bopen.eu> on behalf of ECMWF <https://ecmwf.int>.

Cheers,
Alessandro