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<Florian> needs to work on some met. data :

> does anybody know a function to read the bufr format?

Possibly the easiest ways is to use some software like 
Grads to convert the data and then read it into ML. Or 
to write a MEX interface to existing BUFR i/o libraries
such as BUFRDC or EMOSLIB from ECMWF:

 <http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/

If you take the latter path I would be interested in knowing how you get on. Incidentally, we did a similar thing for GRIB (and NetCDF), cf. 

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=21579&objectType=FILE



hth
Lars