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  - Crisologo, Irene
A1  - Abon, Catherine Cristobal
A1  - Racoma, B. A.
A1  - Jacobi, S.
A1  - Servando, N. T.
A1  - David, C. P. C.
A1  - Bronstert, Axel
T1  - Using the new Philippine radar network to reconstruct the Habagat of August 2012 monsoon event around Metropolitan Manila
JF  - Natural hazards and earth system sciences
N2  - From 6 to 9 August 2012, intense rainfall hit the northern Philippines, causing massive floods in Metropolitan Manila and nearby regions. Local rain gauges recorded almost 1000mm within this period. However, the recently installed Philippine network of weather radars suggests that Metropolitan Manila might have escaped a potentially bigger flood just by a whisker, since the centre of mass of accumulated rainfall was located over Manila Bay. A shift of this centre by no more than 20 km could have resulted in a flood disaster far worse than what occurred during Typhoon Ketsana in September 2009.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-13-653-2013
SN  - 1561-8633
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
SP  - 653
EP  - 657
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -