radolan2map

QGIS plugin for DWD rasterized precipitation datasets like RADOLAN/RADKLIM and REGNIE
This project is a QGIS plugin that brings precipitation data from German Meteorological Service (DWD, https://www.dwd.de) - radar data in RADOLAN/RADKLIM binary format in any grid dimension as well as REGNIE - on a map. You also can add up RADOLAN data!
Applications: hydrometeorological and agricultural analyses.

Features

load the following data types:

• load/display any binary file in RADOLAN / RADKLIM format (incl. gz-compression)
• radolan summation: you can add up RADOLAN data!
• daily, monthly and multiannual REGNIE files (incl. gz-compression)

additional functions for RADOLAN:

• bring it to standard projection ETRS89 / LAEA Europe
• optional cut to german border (or any other shape file)
• status of DWD Radar Network included (see Wiki)

Installation, Usage

=> Wiki

Data info

RADOLAN

• Overview: https://dwd.de/RADOLAN. There are hourly (RH, RW) or daily (SF) datasets.
  A RADOLAN-RW-testfile (gzipped binary) is included in directory example/sample_file/.
• Data download: RADOLAN (recent) and RADKLIM radar climatology dataset: DWD open climate data

REGNIE

• REGNIE overview: https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/regnie/regnie.html
• Data download:
  • REGNIE daily data
  • REGNIE monthly data
  • REGNIE multiannual data

Platform info

Plugin was successfully tested with QGIS

• 3.16 Hannover on Linux openSUSE 15.3 and Windows 10
• 3.10 A Coruña on Linux openSUSE 15.1 and Windows 10

If you experience any problems when starting the plugin, please make sure that
you have a current version of QGIS and Python installed on your system.

QGIS

• https://qgis.org
• radolan2map at qgis.org

Feel invited...

to give me feedback about usability and
help improving this plugin to promote open source (GIS)software and data!