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WRaINfo: An Open Source Library for Weather Radar INformation for FURUNO Weather Radars Based on Wradlib Cover

WRaINfo: An Open Source Library for Weather Radar INformation for FURUNO Weather Radars Based on Wradlib

Open Access
|Oct 2023

Abstract

WRaINfo is a software for real-time weather radar data processing developed by the Helmholtz Innovation Lab FERN.Lab, a technology and innovation platform of the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam (GFZ). WRaINfo is specifically designed for processing X-band weather radar data of FURUNO devices. The modules of the package allow to read and process raw data of the WR2120 and WR2100. For this purpose, many functions of the library wradlib are used and adapted. The processing is controlled by a configuration file, main functionalities include formatting, attenuation correction, clutter detection, georeferencing and gridding of the data. This allows the construction of reproducible, automatic data processing chains. The package is written in the Python programming language. The source code is publicly available on GitLab. Compiled versions are also available on PyPi. The package is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.453 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 16, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 25, 2023
Published on: Oct 12, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2023 Alice Künzel, Kai Mühlbauer, Julia Neelmeijer, Daniel Spengler, published by Ubiquity Press
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