Links

Below are some useful links about weather radars, including how they work, how information can be processed, different radar databases and software for processing radar data, and types of precipitation. Also, visit our Sources page, which has loads of radar links we have found.

General Information

• Weather Radar - Detailed information about weather radars at Wikipedia
• How Does the Weather Radar Work - Basic principles of weather radar operation and common interpretation errors
• NEXRAD - US NEXRAD weather radar network
• TDWR - US modern weather radar network
• dBZ (meteorology) - What dBZ means

Weather Radar Databases

• Radars - Tropical Atlantic - One of the best and fully described lists of publicly available weather radar imagery worldwide with a tiny story about almost every source. Thanks, guys! Your page is awesome!
• WMO Radar Database - WMO’s database of current operational weather radars.
• EUMETNET - European Weather Radar network.
• Vereniging voor Weerkunde en Klimatologie - List of weather radar sites worldwide.
• ESTOFEX - Links to weather radar sites provided by European Storm Forecast Experiment.
• The OCC Environmental Data Commons - Repository for environmental public data sets of scientific interest, hosted as part of the Open Science Data Cloud Ecosystem.

Technical Information

• Gdal.org - Utilities for work with geospatial data of raster or vector images
• Map Projection Reference - Projections are grouped by use, and ordered roughly chronologically by type.
• EPSG.io - Projection finder (try 'utm wgs Norway')
• QGIS Tutorial and Tips - Georeferencing Aerial Imagery
• Mapserver.org - Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web
• Py-ART - A module containing a collection of weather radar algorithms and utilities
• Wradlib.org - An Open Source Library for Weather Radar Data Processing
• BALTRAD - Community-based weather radar networking
• MyGeodata - Coordinate system transformation of value pairs on-line (cs2cs)
• Openradar on GitHub - Weather radar software community

Weather Data Sources

• NCEP Products Inventory - Multiple forecasts by GFS model

Weather Radar Manufacturers

• Gamic - The creator of meteorological data processing systems for Weather Radar since 1988 and complete X-band Doppler Weather Radar systems since 2012.
• Vaisala - One of the biggest companies who produce high-quality meteorological products.

Radar aggregators

• Weerslag.nl - Europe Composite Radars
• Radareu.cz - Composite image of most European weather radars
• Skyclear.ro - World Weather Radars
• Barbadosweather.org - Great composite of the Caribbean
• Weather Underground - United States, Canada and Australia Radars
• Andrew.rsmas.miami.edu - Tropical Cyclone Radar Loops