openradar / xradar

A tool to work in weather radar data in xarray
https://docs.openradarscience.org/projects/xradar
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Version Handling in `to_odim` #98

Open kmuehlbauer opened 1 year ago

kmuehlbauer commented 1 year ago

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egouden commented 1 year ago

The ODIM writer is now fully compatible with ODIM 2.2 (2014), which is good !

The main interest of ODIM 2.4 (2021) is the definition of some mandatory metadata, useful for data assimilation in NWP.

We could keep only 2.4, because it is cheaper and the format is backward compatible.

We could also release quickly 2.4, by focusing on the mandatory metadata.

Some mandatory metadata in 2.4 might not be available in our WMO model (which is a merging of ODIM and CFRADIAL2). I do not think this is an issue. The missing information can be provided as parameters, like the source parameter in 2.2.