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Terms and conditions for use of IASI PCA-based compression package

Satellite Applications Facility on Numerical Weather Prediction (“NWP SAF”)


Licence Agreement for the Use of NWP SAF Software
between
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
(EUMETSAT) represented by the Met Office (UK)
and
the person whose details appear in the licence application (for a personal licence) or the organization represented by that person (for an institutional licence) (hereinafter the "Licensee")

Annex

The NWP SAF Software comprises the following software packages:

ECMWF IASI PCA-based compression-package v1.x comprising the elements described in the Release note accompanying the Software.

The NWP SAF Software makes use of pre-existing software elements. The following pre-existing software elements are subject to conditions of use in addition to those in the main body of this Licence:

Pre-existing software is LAPACK and BLAS.

LAPACK (Anderson et al., 2002) and BLAS (Lawson et al., 1979; Dongarra et al., 1988a, 1988b, 1990; Blackford et al., 2002; Dongarra, 2002) are often installed by default on scientific computing systems but if not available already they may by installed from http://www.netlib.org/lapack and http://www.netlib.org/blas. Both are freely-available software packages which may be incorporated into commercial software packages.