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.
git clone https://github.com/wradlib/radolan-guide.git
cd radolan-guide
sphinx-build -b html . _build/htmlThen open _build/html/index.html in your browser.
- Source code: MIT LICENSE - Copyright (c) 2025 wradlib developers
- Notebooks and documentation: CC BY-SA 4.0 - Copyright (c) 2025 wradlib developers
- Data: CC BY 4.0 - The Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) RADOLAN dataset