xarray backends

This section gives an overview on the available xarray backends.

Warning

For radar data in polar format the openradar community published xradar where xarray-based readers/writers are implemented. That particular code was ported from \(\omega radlib\) to xradar. Please refer to xradar for enhancements for polar radar.

Since \(\omega radlib\) version 1.19 almost all backend code has been transferred to xradar-package and is imported from there.

Native Backends

• RADOLAN
  • Load RADOLAN Data
  • Inspect Data
  • Inspect RADOLAN moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Mask some values
  • Use xr.open_dataset
  • Use xr.open_mfdataset to retrieve timeseries

Imported Backends from xradar

• ODIM
  • Load ODIM_H5 Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Retrieve explicit group
• GAMIC
  • Load GAMIC HDF5 Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Retrieve explicit group
• CfRadial1
  • Load CfRadial1 Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Use xr.open_dataset to retrieve explicit group
• CfRadial2
  • Load CfRadial2 Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
• Iris/sigmet
  • Load IRIS Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Retrieve explicit group
• Rainbow5
  • Load Rainbow5 Volume Data
  • Inspect RadarVolume
  • Inspect root group
  • Inspect sweep group(s)
  • Georeferencing
  • Inspect radar moments
  • Create simple plot
  • Retrieve explicit group
• Furuno SCN/SCNX
  • Load furuno scn Data
  • Load furuno scnx Data
  • More Furuno loading mechanisms