Technical Note: An open source library for processing weather radar data (wradlib)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 863-871

  Heistermann, M ^a   Jacobi, S ^a   Pfaff, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT; GEOREFERENCING; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH; OPEN SOURCE TOOLS; OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARIES; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RADAR COVERAGE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR PROCESSING; TECHNICAL NOTES; WEATHER RADAR DATA;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADAR; VISUALIZATION; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 84874467230     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-863-2013     Document Type: Article

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