SciTools/iris — pull request #520 by ajdawson (2013-05-23 09:10:29+00:00)
Title: BF - handle missing values from grib messages

This PR implements missing value handling for data read from GRIB messages.

There has already been some discussion in #516 regarding the specifics. I decided to implement this in a way that means only messages that contain missing values will be stored in masked arrays, messages that don't will be stored in numpy arrays as previously.

The additional test requires a new data file in [this PR](https://github.com/SciTools/iris-test-data/issues/6).