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 chapter .
The formats of the composite products are described in the Format chapter. They consist of a binary format with an ASCII header and an ASCII-only 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, The Deutscher Wetterdienst, for providing the extensive set of example data and his 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