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The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together the state meteorological services that existed before then. [ 3 ]
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd inspected The Gap, a badly hit suburb in north-western Brisbane, with Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman on 18 November, likening it to a "war zone". [4]
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
However, it was later revealed the network would instead transfer Holt from Brisbane to Sydney where he would present the local weather forecasts on the Brisbane, Sydney and Perth editions of 10 News First while Kate Freebairn would deliver local weather forecasts for the Melbourne and Adelaide editions of 10 News First.
Bells Bridge [16] (a locality 12 km (7 mi) north of Gympie, on the Bruce Highway) Kingaroy, Dalby, and St George: Cunnamulla: 826 km (513.3 mi) Duplexed with Burnett Highway through Goomeri. Duplexed with Warrego Highway through Dalby. Duplexed with Carnarvon Highway through St George. State Route 50 (Gold Coast)
The Zaslon is a pulse-Doppler radar with a passive electronically scanned array (PESA) antenna and digital signal processing. The antenna used by the Zaslon is actually a multi-channel system comprising two separate electronically controlled arrays, an X band radar with 1700 emitters and a L band transponder with 64 emitters brought together into a single antenna. [4]
The Wivenhoe Dam was built approximately 80 km upstream from Brisbane after the 1974 floods. As a result of the flood, planning for the Wivenhoe Dam included flood mitigation as well as its original water supply purpose. [26] The flood was a defining event for a generation of Brisbane residents. [27]