TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heistermann, Maik
A1  - Jacobi, S.
A1  - Pfaff, T.
T1  - Technical note an open source library for processing weather radar data (wradlib)
JF  - Hydrology and earth system sciences : HESS
N2  - The potential of weather radar observations for hydrological and meteorological research and applications is undisputed, particularly with increasing world-wide radar coverage. However, several barriers impede the use of weather radar data. These barriers are of both scientific and technical nature. The former refers to inherent measurement errors and artefacts, the latter to aspects such as reading specific data formats, geo-referencing, visualisation. The radar processing library wradlib is intended to lower these barriers by providing a free and open source tool for the most important steps in processing weather radar data for hydro-meteorological and hydrological applications. Moreover, the community-based development approach of wradlib allows scientists to share their knowledge about efficient processing algorithms and to make this knowledge available to the weather radar community in a transparent, structured and well-documented way.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-863-2013
SN  - 1027-5606
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SP  - 863
EP  - 871
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heistermann, Maik
A1  - Collis, Scott
A1  - Dixon, M. J.
A1  - Giangrande, S.
A1  - Helmus, J. J.
A1  - Kelley, B.
A1  - Koistinen, J.
A1  - Michelson, D. B.
A1  - Peura, M.
A1  - Pfaff, T.
A1  - Wolff, D. B.
T1  - The emergence of open-source software for the weather radar community
JF  - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
N2  - Weather radar analysis has become increasingly sophisticated over the past 50 years, and efforts to keep software up to date have generally lagged behind the needs of the users. We argue that progress has been impeded by the fact that software has not been developed and shared as a community.
 Recently, the situation has been changing. In this paper, the developers of a number of open-source software (OSS) projects highlight the potential of OSS to advance radar-related research. We argue that the community-based development of OSS holds the potential to reduce duplication of efforts and to create transparency in implemented algorithms while improving the quality and scope of the software. We also conclude that there is sufficiently mature technology to support collaboration across different software projects. This could allow for consolidation toward a set of interoperable software platforms, each designed to accommodate very specific user requirements.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00240.1
SN  - 0003-0007
SN  - 1520-0477
VL  - 96
IS  - 1
SP  - 117
EP  - +
PB  - American Meteorological Soc.
CY  - Boston
ER  -