Open AccessThe Indonesia In-House Radar Integration System (InaRAISE) of Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG): Development, Constraint, and Progress
Author(s) -
Donaldi Sukma Permana,
T D Hutapea,
Alfan Sukmana Praja,
Jaka Anugrah Ivanda Paski,
Erwin Eka Syahputra Makmur,
Urip Haryoko,
Iddam Hairuly Umam,
Miming Saepudin,
Riris Adriyanto
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/303/1/012051
Subject(s) - weather radar , radar , computer science , numerical weather prediction , meteorology , software , remote sensing , geography , telecommunications , programming language
In 2017, BMKG has 41 weather radars covering most of Indonesia region and most of its data are automatically sent to the BMKG headquarter every 10 minutes. There are four different weather radar brands with its specific data format and software analysis. In recent years, the weather radar community has developed open-source software to handle several radar data formats. Based on this, BMKG has developed the Indonesia In-House Radar Integration System (InaRAISE) of BMKG using the open-source weather radar software. InaRAISE has been developed using Python-based libraries Wradlib and Py-ART for processing weather radar data. BMKG radar data have been successfully extracted and transformed into Cartesian coordinates for post-processing. The multiple radars have been successfully composited by comparing column-maximum reflectivity. Web-based near real-time radar images has been experimentally operated, but not officially launched. The main constraint is the susceptible communication network between radar sites and BMKG headquarter causing real-time data transfer problems. InaRAISE serves feasible data radar extraction for data assimilation in the numerical weather prediction model. InaRAISE could serve as a supporting of the existing radar integration system or possibly as a replacement.