diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/e/ecCodes/ecCodes-2.38.3-gompi-2024a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/e/ecCodes/ecCodes-2.38.3-gompi-2024a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2aa0915ea2e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/e/ecCodes/ecCodes-2.38.3-gompi-2024a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'ecCodes'
+version = '2.38.3'
+
+homepage = 'https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/ECC/ecCodes+Home'
+description = """ecCodes is a package developed by ECMWF which provides an application programming interface and
+ a set of tools for decoding and encoding messages in the following formats: WMO FM-92 GRIB edition 1 and edition 2,
+ WMO FM-94 BUFR edition 3 and edition 4, WMO GTS abbreviated header (only decoding)."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2024a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': False}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/ecmwf/eccodes/archive/refs/tags/']
+sources = [{'download_filename': '%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename': '%(namelower)s-%(version)s.tar.gz'}]
+checksums = ['2f13adc4fbdfa3ea11f75ce4ed8937bf40a8fcedd760a519b15e4e17dedc9424']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.29.3'),
+    ('ecBuild', '3.8.5'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('netCDF', '4.9.2'),
+    ('JasPer', '4.2.4'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '3.0.1'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.43'),
+    ('zlib', '1.3.1'),
+    ('libaec', '1.1.3'),
+]
+
+# Python bindings are provided by a separate package 'eccodes-python'
+configopts = "-DENABLE_NETCDF=ON -DENABLE_PNG=ON -DENABLE_PYTHON=OFF -DENABLE_JPG=ON "
+configopts += "-DENABLE_JPG_LIBJASPER=ON -DENABLE_ECCODES_THREADS=ON"
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/bufr_compare', 'bin/bufr_copy', 'bin/bufr_dump', 'bin/bufr_filter', 'bin/bufr_get', 'bin/bufr_ls',
+              'bin/grib_compare', 'bin/grib_copy', 'bin/grib_dump', 'bin/grib_filter', 'bin/grib_get', 'bin/grib_ls',
+              'bin/gts_compare', 'bin/gts_copy', 'bin/gts_dump', 'bin/gts_filter', 'bin/gts_get', 'bin/gts_ls',
+              'bin/metar_compare', 'bin/metar_copy', 'bin/metar_dump', 'bin/metar_filter', 'bin/metar_get',
+              'bin/metar_ls', 'bin/codes_count', 'bin/codes_info', 'bin/codes_split_file',
+              'lib/libeccodes_f90.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libeccodes.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['include'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'tools'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..267acc5aa3d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3-GCCcore-13.3.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+# Author: Denis Kristak
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'libaec'
+version = '1.1.3'
+
+homepage = 'https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec'
+description = """Libaec provides fast lossless compression of 1 up to 32 bit wide signed or unsigned integers
+(samples). The library achieves best results for low entropy data as often encountered in space imaging
+instrument data or numerical model output from weather or climate simulations. While floating point representations
+are not directly supported, they can also be efficiently coded by grouping exponents and mantissa."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '13.3.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/%(namelower)s/-/archive/v%(version)s']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+patches = ["libaec-1.1.3_install_binary.patch"]
+
+checksums = ['453de44eb6ea2500843a4cf4d2e97d1be251d2df7beae6c2ebe374edcb11e378',
+             '52fcdeacd9c27108dffafd8109012902fa63fb2e39803670a3ba16f313628f4c']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.29.3'),
+    ('binutils', '2.42'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/graec', 'include/%(name)s.h', 'include/szlib.h',
+              'lib/libaec.a', 'lib/libaec.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = ['graec --help']
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3_install_binary.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3_install_binary.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..29d7f8e0c7b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libaec/libaec-1.1.3_install_binary.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# The binary is not installed by default which caused the sanity check to fail
+# @author Stefan Wolfsheimer, SURF
+
+diff -uNr libaec-v1.1.3.orig/src/CMakeLists.txt libaec-v1.1.3/src/CMakeLists.txt
+--- libaec-v1.1.3.orig/src/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-15 14:21:05.177185441 +0100
++++ libaec-v1.1.3/src/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-15 14:21:39.702841450 +0100
+@@ -76,3 +76,4 @@
+   COMPILE_DEFINITIONS "${libaec_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS}")
+ 
+ install(TARGETS aec_static aec_shared sz_static sz_shared)
++install(TARGETS graec RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)