Radar data needed! Help us with the data gathering
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I am fairly certain that Canada offers free use of weather radar. I'll see what I can do. I'll also do my best to check if other countries offer free radar.
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In Australia we have free access as to the government run (Bureau Of Meteorology) Unsure if they would allow this to be utilised for another weather site but worth a try.
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@meteo-GR Thank you, radareu.cz is nice composition, but we are looking for original data (not png) and we want to access them in legal way.
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An example of good data storage:
http://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/radarnowcasting/catalog.html
The data is raw and georeferenced, exactly what we need. Many thanks to guys from Norwegian Meteorological Institute!!! -
Sorry, but it looks like Environment Canada only offers radar data in GIF format. I'll keep trying for other countries though. And I figured out how to get Australian weather radar. It's $1830 a year plus another $1025 as a one time fee. http://reg.bom.gov.au/other/charges.shtml
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@TheRadarGuy Thanks for help
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Bahamas Weather is free.
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and how about post question (from windy team) here?
https://opendata.stackexchange.com
https://opendata.stackexchange.com/search?q=weather(why we pay gowerment expensive data twice...?)
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@TomSlavkovsky @ivo I think I found radar data for Sweden. There is some other data in there you might also want to take a look at. Like: weather forecasting models, ocean information and warnings data.
http://opendata.smhi.se/apidocs/ -
@TheRadarGuy Thx for the link, I have contacted the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and there is a fee for HDF5 format - 24.000 SEK per year.
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@leapenn Could send me a link for the data?
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Do you have a list of providers that have already agreed to share this information?
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Germany's National Meteorological Service DWD offers most data as opendata, radars included
http://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html -
The University of Bonn (Germany, Rhineland Palatinate) operates a local rain radar. The range is about 120km around Bonn.
There are also no commercial interests behind it I think and they pass the data to you perhaps.
https://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/messdaten/radarbilder/aktuelle-bilder-1/komposit
Contact: Malte.Diederich@uni-bonn.de -
@Snipersupersix I think this is part of opendata of DWD, they offer radar data from all German radar stations
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Here is a huge list of radar data sources, but probably mainly images and not raw: rainviewer sources Although raw data is better, a composite from images would be great beta version!
Edit: Link should work now!
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UK Met Office Data is available free through their DataPoint API (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/rainfall-radar-map-layer). API documentation: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/3/0/datapoint_api_reference.pdf
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Awaiting response from Colombian agency in charge of radar data. And crossing fingers.
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