Tag Archive: Australian Operational Weather Radar Dataset

UMELB02: Convection and extreme rainfall characteristics using radar

March 30, 2021 10:32 am Published by Comments Off on UMELB02: Convection and extreme rainfall characteristics using radar

The accumulation of rainfall over a given area depends on a range of things, including duration, intensity, and propagation speed. It is the characteristics of convection that ultimately determine these rainfall properties. The idea for this project is to use a simple method to characterise the properties of the most intense convective / rainfall bearing systems from radar data.

New dataset reveals key to Townsville flood disaster

June 5, 2019 1:32 pm Published by Comments Off on New dataset reveals key to Townsville flood disaster

CLEX researchers with the Bureau of Meteorology have created a new 20-year-long regularly updated precipitation dataset for Australia using 50 radar sites. This will allow researchers to examine the climatology of extreme events, follow cloud processes, estimate hail size, determine cloud top height and much more.