Conveners
Short Course 2: Open Radar – Open Source Software Tools for Radar Data Processing
- Kai Mühlbauer (Institut für Geowissenschaften, Abteilung Meteorologie, Uni Bonn)
Description
The course will discuss the principles of open science and provide an overview of the most mature and exciting software packages available for radar data processing (eg. wradlib, PyART, tbc) and how they connect with the scientific software stack. The course will be built with Jupyter Notebooks as hands-on approach for interactive user experience. The main course programming language is Python. Amongst others, special emphasis will be paid to the “xradar” package, implementing the newly adopted FM301/CfRadial2 WMO standard. These tools will be used to showcase how to harness the power of xarray and dask for efficient, distributed radar data processing. Finally, participants will be enabled to implement their own algorithms. Therefore, guidance will be given to create workflows for different aspects of weather radar data processing using open datasets of interest for participants (e.g. the Ahrtal flooding in 2021). Participants are invited to make their suggestions.
