RADOLAN Guide#

Overview#

This repository contains a set of notebooks and utilities for working with RADOLAN data. It was part of wradlib-notebooks and was transferred into its own repository when reorganizing and restructuring the wradlib documentation.

The documentation and notebooks of the RADOLAN Guide are now available at https://docs.wradlib.org/projects/radolan-guide.

RADOLAN is abbreviated from the german RAdar-OnLine-ANeichung, which means Radar-Online-Adjustment.

Using it’s network of 17 weather radar The Deutscher Wetterdienst provides many products for high resolution precipitation analysis and forecast. A comprehensive product list can be found in the Product-Legacy and Product-ODIM chapters.

The different formats of the composite products are described in the Format chapter. They consist of a binary format with an ASCII header, an ASCII-only format and the HDF5 based ODIM_H5 format. All composites are available in Polar Stereographic Projection which will be discussed in the chapter Grid.

This notebook tutorial was prepared with material from the DWD RADOLAN/RADVOR-OP Kompositformat. Special thanks go to Elmar Weigl and Matthias Gottschalk, The Deutscher Wetterdienst, for providing the extensive set of example data and their valuable information about the RADOLAN products.

Installation#

git clone https://github.com/wradlib/radolan-guide.git
cd radolan-guide
sphinx-build -b html . _build/html

Then open _build/html/index.html in your browser.

License#

Data: CC BY 4.0 - The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) RADOLAN dataset

RADOLAN Guide

Contents

RADOLAN Guide#

Overview#

Installation#

License#