On Windows or Mac find a HDF5 viewer here :
https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/?1638350659
The HDF viewer is, in the example, loaded with a volume, pseudo CAPPI and composite radar file:
On Linux find a lot of tools here:
https://portal.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html
After installing them here:
https://www.howtoinstall.me/ubuntu/18-04/hdf5-tools/
Then you can inspect the files with the "h5dump" command.
(Note what is meta data and what is actual data and note, that the metadata tells where the path to the actual data is, say "dataset1/data1/data")
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With this information you can try to use the h52gif tool, which converts a h5 file downloaded from the API to a gif file:
| $ h52gif dk.com.202108060720.500_max.h5 test.gif -i dataset1/data1/data |
Afterwards you have an image i the gif format:
This is a only a very tiny bit of what you can do, explore for yourself and have fun !