Hey open radar plans. Abstract deadline for ERAD is approaching. Any thoughts on a submission that represents open radar?
In addition I have been talking with the organizers about a course. keen to have folks like @kmuehlbauer leading… Djordje is keen to have PySteps as well so I am thinking of reaching out to Seppo Pulkkinen and seeing where he is at.. cc @aladinor @rcjackson @syedhamidali @wolfidan @DanielMichelson @mgrover1
I’ve put in an entry in our event plan for ERAD and the short course. It’ll take a while before I learn if I am approved, but am happy to contribute some BALTRAD and FM301 to the short course.
I’d also be happy to contribute to a conference abstract/presentation. Given what’s happening in the world, do you think a presentation emphasizing the purpose and value of Open Radar in a larger Open Science context would be timely and appropriate?
I am currently planning on attending if the approvals come through. For openradar efforts, I think ADAPT is going to be king at ERAD. @MeteoRBhupi has made quite a great tracking/adaptive scanning package we can present. I may also write an abstract for ORACLE efforts in the severe storms session.
Given what’s happening in the world, do you think a presentation emphasizing the purpose and value of Open Radar in a larger Open Science context would be timely and appropriate?
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Hi All,
thanks again Scott for pushing this. I’ve replied to Scott’s E-Mail in that regard. Here is a short summary.
A dedicate PySTEPS course (like at ERAD 2022) would certainly be in high demand. If a dedicated PySTEPS course can’t be established for ERAD 2026, we could squeeze a section into the open radar short course. This could be a workflow which takes raw radar data, use our tools and packages to preprocess, estimate QPE and finally nowcast using different algorithms implemented in PySTEPS. We could even extend it with some verification. This would be no in-depth coverage of PySTEPS, but more like a usage application.
For our open radar short source, it’s good to see already ideas emerging. For the first part we can borrow from last ERAD’s templates and freshen and update contents. I’ve also asked the organizers, if the hosting weather service could provide us with some fitting local radar data to work with in the course.
@DanielMichelson Yes, purpose and value of Open Radar in the context of Open Science is key! I agree that this should be particularly emphasized.
I do not have concrete plans for own contributions (oral or poster), but I think it’s time to follow-up with some updates on wradlib (poster at the very least).
@scollis I’d also happily add my share to a dedicated open radar contribution (oral). I think we should also have a poster highlighting Open Radar Science. I’d take care of that one.
Looking forward to ERAD 2026!
BTW, I think I missed the last open radar online meetings. Can someone point me to the schedule? Would be good to catch up again!
Kai
Hey everyone,
I’ve just seen this discussion.
As two years ago, I’d be happy to contribute one or two slides on GPM-API.
If we keep a format similar to ERAD in Rome, I would also be happy to give an afternoon tutorial this time on how to exploit DISDRODB for developing DSD retrievals for polarimetric radars at X-, C-, and S-band.
I already have examples using NEXRAD, FMI, and MCH radars, and we could also apply the approach to Serbian datasets if they are available.
Alternatively, I could offer a tutorial on performing DSD retrievals from GPM DPR using dual-frequency data, although that might be a bit too much for a single afternoon session.
I had also considered proposing a dedicated full course on disdrometers, radar simulations, and DSD retrievals, but given that I’ll be finishing my PhD in the next three months, that might be a bit too ambitious on my side at the moment.
Gio
Dear All,
ERAD 2026 is approaching fast in these uncertain times. Please forward this to interested folks who plan to contribute to this years ERAD in any form.
TL,DR: We have scheduled a first online meeting tomorrow, Thursday April 16th, 15 UTC, hope you join on short notice.
@DanielMichelson, @scollis and me have been in the loop with the organizers (Djordje Mirkovic). The organizers have asked us to conduct our open source short course already on Saturday. Please take this into account when you do travel planning. On Sunday would then a connected course to handle Nowcasting (PySteps).
For our course that means we will need to slightly trim and align our schedule, keeping the introductory sessions as short as possible. The idea is to have hands-on QA/QC, attenuation correction, QPE, HMC, gridding etc to prepare possible audience for the Sunday PySteps course.
For these tasks we want to use our packages xradar, Py-ART, wradlib, BALTRAD and LROSE (and maybe others) as much as possible. For the two latter we would need to apply them into the python workflow. At least we should prepare notebooks how to do this. Scott, any chance that we can use Binder on Jetstream2 (ProjectPythia) again?
That all means this years short course will focus on data quality, correction algorithms, QPE derivation and gridding, so any suggestions and ideas are very much welcome.
Regarding presentations there are first plans to send in some coordinated abstracts on core xradar, Py-ART and xradar, xradar and FM301/zarr, to showcase the recent developments in the scientific python and radar stack. The abstract deadline has been extended to April 26th, so ample of time left to coordinate.
Hope to see you around tomorrow!