Sweep radar data radial velocity volume scan

The sweep radar data are location radial velocity products. Horizontal resolution is 1 degree x 250 m. The horizontal range is 180 km. The product has an availability of 5 min. This data is available with and without a polarimetric clutter filter, which eliminates non-meteorological echos to increase the quality of the data.

The data is available for the following radar sites:

Borkum, Boostedt, Rostock, Hannover, Ummendorf, Prötzel, Essen, 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".

Note: In order to convert the numerical values contained in the HDF5 files into physical quantities (dBZ), it is necessary to use the attributes “gain”, “offset”, “nodata” and “undetect”; see section 4.5 in ‘OPERA weather radar information model in HDF5 v2.3 (PDF)’.

 
Citation proposal
(2024) . Sweep radar data radial velocity volume scan. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/urn:wmo:md:de-dwd:fffc38da-058c-487d-bb82-4fec8c27c3b3
 

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date ( Publication )
2024-07-24
Identifier
https://registry.gdi-de.org/id/de.bund.dwd/fffc38da-058c-487d-bb82-4fec8c27c3b3
Other citation details

  Originator

Website
https://www.dwd.de  

  Point of contact

Website
https://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
Access constraints: No conditions apply. Access constraints: No conditions apply. Es gelten keine Zugriffsbeschränkungen
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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S
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Distribution

Distribution

Distribution format
  • HDF5 (-- )

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
product description (PDF)  
OnLine resource
format description  

format description

OnLine resource
open data fileserver  

open data fileserver

OnLine resource
Radar and wind profiler locations of DWD  
 

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:fffc38da-058c-487d-bb82-4fec8c27c3b3   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
DWD-Datensatz-Layer
Date stamp
2025-11-12T19:21:54
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
 

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  Associated resources

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