Dear Toby, David and Christophe,
Please find enclosed 2 modifications for METEO subroutine (in sources/telemac2d) and METEO_TELEMAC module (in sources/utils/bief).
I have tested them for a configuration sent by Toby (many thanks) and succeeded in getting exactly same results as using METEO_FROM_BINARY_FILE and faster (up to twice faster depending on the number of cores for this case).
Yet, there is a need to fit expected binary format for METEO_TELEMAC with the name of variables (as described in the WAQTEL user manual, the name of variables for wind and atmospheric pressure have to be WINDX, WINDY and PATM (but can also be WINDS, WINDD for wind velocity magnitude and direction + PATM).
You can change the name of the variables in your BINARY ATMOSPHERIC DATA FILE by running run_telfile.py alter --rename 'old name var=new name var' one by one, e.g.
Please give me your feedback if possible before September 10th so that it can be merged to branch v8p5.
Hope this helps,
Chi-Tuan