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