diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 7251f45bc5d7..271f0f66480f 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@
   taku0 = "Takuo Yonezawa <mxxouy6x3m_github@tatapa.org>";
   tari = "Peter Marheine <peter@taricorp.net>";
   tavyc = "Octavian Cerna <octavian.cerna@gmail.com>";
+  ltavard = "Laure Tavard <laure.tavard@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>";
   teh = "Tom Hunger <tehunger@gmail.com>";
   telotortium = "Robert Irelan <rirelan@gmail.com>";
   thall = "Niclas Thall <niclas.thall@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cdo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cdo/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b7768a3d2455
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cdo/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, curl, hdf5, netcdf
+, enable_cdi_lib ? false    # build, install and link to a CDI library [default=no]
+, enable_all_static ? false # build a completely statically linked CDO binary  [default=no]
+, enable_cxx ? false        # Use CXX as default compiler [default=no]
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.7.2";
+  name = "cdo-${version}";
+
+  # Dependencies
+  buildInputs = [ curl netcdf hdf5 ];
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://code.zmaw.de/attachments/download/12760/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "4c43eba7a95f77457bfe0d30fb82382b3b5f2b0cf90aca6f0f0a008f6cc7e697";
+  };
+
+ # Configure phase
+ configureFlags = [
+   "--with-netcdf=${netcdf}" "--with-hdf5=${hdf5}"]
+   ++ stdenv.lib.optional (enable_cdi_lib) "--enable-cdi-lib"
+   ++ stdenv.lib.optional (enable_all_static) "--enable-all-static"
+   ++ stdenv.lib.optional (enable_cxx) "--enable-cxx";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Collection of command line Operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Supported data formats are GRIB 1/2, netCDF 3/4, SERVICE, EXTRA and IEG.
+      There are more than 600 operators available.
+    '';
+    homepage = https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ltavard ];
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux ++ darwin;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 40ff6038aed3..cd0b95aa07f4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7644,6 +7644,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   cdk = callPackage ../development/libraries/cdk {};
 
+  cdo = callPackage ../development/libraries/cdo {};
+
   cimg = callPackage  ../development/libraries/cimg { };
 
   scmccid = callPackage ../development/libraries/scmccid { };