Level 1 data is unprocessed, ungridded (spherical coordinates) and provided using the Eumetnet ODIMH5 model of the HDF5 format.
Level 1b consists of corrected and calibrated 3D gridded data and volumetric in netCDF4 format.
Level 2 data provides 2D grids of retrievals in netCDF4.
The Rainfields 3 dataset is used operationally in Australia for QPE applications and therefore is a powerful dataset when accurate estimates of rain rate are required from radar.
Potentially it can be accessed here if we would like to include it in the package