Open `pvol` data for the UK

[bart1]

Discussed @Irac with @peterdesmet & @rrniii

[rrniii]

Hi @bart1 @peterdesmet — UK PVOL data are publicly available through the NCAS/JASMIN object store.

The machine-readable root catalog is:

https://ncas-radar-o.s3-ext.jc.rl.ac.uk/uk-wsr-visualizer-public/ukmo-nimrod/catalog/pvol/catalog.json

The coverage table is:

https://ncas-radar-o.s3-ext.jc.rl.ac.uk/uk-wsr-visualizer-public/ukmo-nimrod/catalog/pvol/coverage.csv

The current catalog covers all UK radars, with site-dependent coverage from 2013 to 17 July 2026. It contains per-volume ODIM-like HDF5 files prepared for bioRad/vol2bird processing, with LP and SP products where available.

I’d be happy to work with you and @peterdesmet on adding this source to getRad, including mapping the radar identifiers, catalog structure, pulse types, and processing metadata.

[bart1]

@rrniii Thanks I will start exploring!

[bart1]

I just made a first implementation @rrniii do you know if wardon-hill has an odim code? I seem to not find on in the opera archive.

Some assumptions I make:

• urls are formatted the same way throught the repository
• sp data is always on the nearest 10 minutes
• lp data should be read by default

[bart1]

For this article describing the available data it would be good to have a license and a page describing the data. What whould be suitable links? Is the data CC BY 4?