Maly Javornik Radar
Description
The dataset consists of radar reflectivity observations from the 1st of January 2016 until the 30th of June 2019, collected periodically in 5-minute intervals. Data originates from Malý Javorník weather radar station, located in the Carpathian Mountains in Western Slovakia. The dataset was provided by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) and used to train the LUPIN model from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.10747. To prevent training the neural network on a biased dataset that contains mostly observations with no precipitation, the dataset contains only the top 63 007 out of the total 355 761 observations. See the linked paper for details.
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Steps to reproduce
The radar reflectivity data is quantized to 8-bit unsigned integers to fit the storage limit. To get the original values in dBZ, convert it using the following operation: (data - 1) / 2 - 31.5. After this operation, it can be used with the code in repository https://github.com/kinit-sk/LUPIN to train the precipitation nowcasting models.