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  2. Australia's weather radars - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bureau of Meteorology - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Bundaberg Airport - Wikipedia

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    Bundaberg Airport (IATA: BDB [4], ICAO: YBUD) is a regional airport serving Bundaberg, a city in the Australian state of Queensland. [2] It is located 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) southwest [2] of the city centre, on North Childers Road and Takalvan Street. [5] The airport is owned and operated by the Bundaberg Regional Council.

  5. Weather radar - Wikipedia

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    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.).

  6. Canadian weather radar network - Wikipedia

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    King City weather radar station. This research radar is essentially a WSR-98A (see below) upgraded with dual polarization capability in 2004. The rest of the network: [8] The existing radars have antennas from two manufacturers: Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC) and Raytheon. some of the existing radars have antennas produced by Andrew ...

  7. AN/TPY-2 transportable radar - Wikipedia

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    TPY-2 radar in travelling configuration View from the back on a deployed TPY-2 radar. The AN/TPY-2 Surveillance Transportable Radar, also called the Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) is a long-range, very high-altitude active digital antenna array [1] [2] X band surveillance radar designed to add a tier to existing missile and air defence systems.

  8. Radar signal characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Radar echoes, showing a representation of the carrier. Pulse width also determines the radar's dead zone at close ranges. While the radar transmitter is active, the receiver input is blanked to avoid the amplifiers being swamped (saturated) or, (more likely), damaged.

  9. AN/FPS-16 Instrumentation Radar - Wikipedia

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    The C-Band Radar Transponder (Model SST-135C) is intended to increase the range and accuracy of the radar ground stations equipped with AN/FPS-16, and AN/FPQ-6 Radar Systems. C-band radar stations at the Kennedy Space Center, along the Atlantic Missile Range, and at many other locations around the world, provide global tracking capabilities.