pylawr: A Package For Weather Radar Processing

The pylawr package is a Python package to load, process and plot weather radar data. It is developed by the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg to process their local area weather radars (LAWR). The LAWRs are used in a single or networked environment. These single polarized X-band radars are used in combination with nationwide C-band radar networks. The products are shown at the Wetterradar Homepage.

Note

The latest version of pylawr package is an alpha version, as well as this documentation, so please report any unstable behavior, code errors or misspelling. Thank you! Keep in mind, the syntax can change drastically for increasing version/path number.

Read the following documentation to find solutions how to process radar data to produce reliable and accurate products of our or possibly other weather radar systems.

Getting Started:

• Overview
• Installation
• Examples for pylawr

User Guide:

• Load data
• Radar fields
• Grid
• Noise
• Clutter
• Remapping
• Inference
• Nowcasting
• Attenuation
• Plotting
• Using wradlib

Help & References:

• pylawr package
• Internals
• Bibliography