The Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) format describes weather features and other natural phenomena such as volcanic activity.
BUFR is a binary format that contains the location and other details of weather and other natural phenomena, such as clouds, jet streams, volcanoes, and tropical cyclones. The World Area Forecast System (WAFS) produces Significant Weather (SIGWX) bulletins in the BUFR format. LuciadLightspeed can decode these WAFS SIGWX files as vector features and visualize the data in a manner similar to the SIGWX charts that WAFS also produces.
LuciadLightspeed only supports decoding WAFS SIGWX BUFR files. BUFR files that do not follow this standard cannot be decoded.