PE radar site product echo tops

The PE radar data is a location echo top product based on the volume radar scan. Horizontal resolution is 1 km x 1 km. The horizontal range within the DWD radar network is 180 km (400px x 400px). The product is produced every 5 minutes. The data resolution is 16 bit.

The data is available for the following radar sites:

ASR Borkum, Boostedt, Rostock, Hannover, Ummendorf, Prötzel, Essen, Korbach-Rhena Flechtdorf, Dresden, Neuhaus, Neuheilenbach, Offenthal, Eisberg, Türkheim, Isen, Feldberg, Memmingen. Up-to-date radar site data is available in the linked list of "Radar and wind profiler locations of DWD".

 
Citation proposal
(2024) . PE radar site product echo tops. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/urn:wmo:md:de-dwd:1a6e003a-c5c9-4c1b-b50b-640b1d1e11a5
 

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date ( Publication )
2024-07-24
Identifier
https://registry.gdi-de.org/id/de.bund.dwd/1a6e003a-c5c9-4c1b-b50b-640b1d1e11a5
Other citation details

  Originator

Website
http://www.dwd.de  

  Point of contact

Website
http://www.dwd.de  

Maintenance information

Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Update scope
Dataset
Maintenance note
The details of the update frequence are described in the temporalElement
High-value dataset categories High-value dataset categories ( Discipline )

Legal constraints

Use limitation
Use limitations: No limitations apply.
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Use constraints: The Creative Commons BY 4.0 - Licence "CC BY 4.0" apply. For detailed information see "https://www.dwd.de/copyright".
Other constraints
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Legal constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Es gelten keine Zugriffsbeschränkungen. Es gelten keine Zugriffsbeschränkungen. Access constraints: No conditions apply.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
German
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

Description
Geographic bounding box that covers the area of product/data
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Distribution

Distribution

Distribution format
  • HDF5 (1.0 )

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
product description (PDF)  
OnLine resource
open data fileserver  
OnLine resource
Radar and wind profiler locations of DWD (PDF)  
OnLine resource
Format description  
 

Quality

Data quality

Hierarchy level
Series

Conformance result

Citation

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
true
Statement
High data quality controlled according to the procedures of Deutscher Wetterdienst
 

Ref. system

Unique resource identifier
EPSG 4326: WGS84 EPSG 4326: WGS84 EPSG 4326: WGS84
 

Content

Coverage Description

Attribute description
Produktvariante des DWD
Content type
Thematic classification
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
urn:wmo:md:de-dwd:1a6e003a-c5c9-4c1b-b50b-640b1d1e11a5   XML
Metadata language
German
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
DWD-Datensatz-Layer
Date stamp
2025-11-12T18:59:43
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-2 Geographic information — Metadata — Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115-2:2009-02-15

  Point of contact

 
 

Md. constraints

Use limitation
High meta data quality controlled according to the procedures of Deutscher Wetterdienst
 

  Overviews

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  Views

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  Associated resources

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