Free ecCodes buffer to avoid memory leak (#87)

CLIMADA-project · Aug 3, 2023 · 436267b · 436267b
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diff --git a/climada_petals/hazard/tc_tracks_forecast.py b/climada_petals/hazard/tc_tracks_forecast.py
@@ -418,6 +418,8 @@ def read_one_bufr_tc(self, file, id_no=None):
                     self.append(track)
                 else:
                     LOGGER.debug('Dropping empty track %s, subset %d', name, i)
+            # release the BUFR message
+            ec.codes_release(bufr)
 
     def write_hdf5(self, file_name, complevel=5):
         """Write TC tracks in NetCDF4-compliant HDF5 format. This method