Radar data needed! Help us with the data gathering

TheRadarGuy

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

ivo

@TheRadarGuy Thanks for help

leapenn

Bahamas Weather is free.

palo

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...?)

TheRadarGuy

@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/

TomSlavkovsky

@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.

TomSlavkovsky

@leapenn Could send me a link for the data?

henderson

Do you have a list of providers that have already agreed to share this information?

Tomber42

Germany's National Meteorological Service DWD offers most data as opendata, radars included
http://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/opendata/opendata.html

Snipersupersix

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

Tomber42

@Snipersupersix I think this is part of opendata of DWD, they offer radar data from all German radar stations

chstdu

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!

angus-morgan

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

LaMenchos

Awaiting response from Colombian agency in charge of radar data. And crossing fingers.

ghoyarbide

Hi, in Argentina

http://radar.inta.gov.ar/v3/

http://www.smn.gov.ar/?mod=radar&id=1

gabrielef71

Hi !
In Europe we have Opera Project under the umbrella of Eumetnet that work on an European Mosaic.
You can find the animation here: http://eumetnet.eu/activities/observations-programme/current-activities/opera-radar-animation/

Regards.
Gabriele

P.S. Sorry I did not read the introduction... you of course already know of Opera... ;)

ivo

@gabrielef71 Yes for 80.000 EUR a year even when already paid by taxpayers money.

ghoyarbide

@ghoyarbide said in Radar data needed! Help us with the data gathering:

Hi, in Argentina

http://radar.inta.gov.ar/v3/

http://www.smn.gov.ar/?mod=radar&id=1

https://www2.smn.gob.ar/descarga-de-datos

Nautilos

Hello,

You can gather radar data for the CONUS from amazon web services.
Look at the link below:
https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/nexrad/

Cheers!

Tomber42

Maybe usable for Canada
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/9ff979c5-a307-4224-bbcf-ecfe5a65e828