Technical note an open source library for processing weather radar data (wradlib)
- 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.
Author details: | Maik HeistermannORCiDGND, S. Jacobi, T. Pfaff |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-863-2013 |
ISSN: | 1027-5606 |
Title of parent work (English): | Hydrology and earth system sciences : HESS |
Publisher: | Copernicus |
Place of publishing: | Göttingen |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 9 |
First page: | 863 |
Last Page: | 871 |
Funding institution: | University of Stuttgart; University of Potsdam; German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) through the PROGRESS project |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geowissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften |