ARR Data Hub
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wradlib
ActiveThe open library for weather-radar rainfall processing — from raw volumes to engineering-ready rainfall fields.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, NumPy, xarray
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install wradlibAbout wradlib
wradlib handles the unglamorous chain between a weather radar and usable rainfall data: reading the many native radar formats, clutter and attenuation correction, Z-R conversion, gauge adjustment, and georeferencing/gridding of the result — each step published, citable and inspectable.
Radar rainfall increasingly drives urban drainage design storms, model calibration and nowcasting inputs; wradlib is the established open toolkit for making radar data defensible rather than decorative. Well maintained by the openradar community, and it composes with pysteps when nowcasting is the goal.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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