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Researchers call on Australian citizen scientists to collect storm data

October 1, 2020 12:08 pm Published by Comments Off on Researchers call on Australian citizen scientists to collect storm data

Australia researchers are calling on storm chasers and members of the general public fascinated by severe weather to take part in a citizen science project that will help better capture the occurrence of extreme weather events and improve our ability to forecast them.

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.

It’s raining useful data with new WeatheX mobile app

December 5, 2018 2:17 pm Published by Comments Off on It’s raining useful data with new WeatheX mobile app

The new WeatheX mobile app takes crowd-sourced observations of wind, hail, flooding and tornadoes. The information gathered from these citizen scientists then goes through a manual quality control process and is stored in a database.