A more generic converter is needed so the observations can be compared to those generated by other centers, like the ODB data Met Office uses. Specifically, ODB reads/uses quality flags which is done differently in the current converter (or read_gps.f90).
We probably want to keep both for now for different applications and consider consolidate a bit later.
Description
The current Fortran converter in develop that converts a NCEP (or gdas) bufr file to IODA was written following mostly (if not completely) the read_gps.f90 routine in https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/GSI/blob/develop/src/gsi/read_gps.f90
A more generic converter is needed so the observations can be compared to those generated by other centers, like the ODB data Met Office uses. Specifically, ODB reads/uses quality flags which is done differently in the current converter (or read_gps.f90).
We probably want to keep both for now for different applications and consider consolidate a bit later.
Acceptance Criteria (Definition of Done)
https://github.com/JCSDA-internal/ioda-converters/pull/1408 is merged
Dependencies
N/A