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Radar Rainfall Mosaic

Created 07/10/2024

Updated 07/10/2024

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A mosaic of rainfall levels for all online public radars for Australia (excluding Norfolk Island). Rainfall levels derived from radars within the Australian Weather Watch Radar Network. The fifteen levels can be approximated to rainfall intensity values. Weather radars send out electromagnetic waves similar to wireless computer networks and mobile phones. The signals are sent out as short pulses which may be reflected by objects in their path, in part reflecting back to the radar. Weather radars are designed to detect rain drops, hail, snow and other forms of precipitation. The intensity of the returned signal is used as an estimate of rainfall intensity and location.

Dedicated Weather Watch radars should be online at all times, unless there are technical difficulties or scheduled maintenance. On some occasions, when dedicated radars are offline for long periods due to upgrades or maintenance, a non-public radar (usually an airport) may be substituted for the duration of the outage.

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Title Radar Rainfall Mosaic
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/c18681ea-8300-46f9-aed9-84e2e119ce3b
Contact Point
Bureau of Meteorology
mgdu@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 17/05/2024
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[109.9971, -47.0024], [158.0029, -47.0024], [158.0029, -6.9976], [109.9971, -6.9976], [109.9971, -47.0024]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Radar Rainfall Mosaic". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/radar-rainfall-mosaic

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  • Radar Rainfall Mosaic

    Bureau of Meteorology

    A mosaic of rainfall levels for all online public radars for Australia (excluding Norfolk Island). Rainfall levels derived from radars within the Australian Weather Watch Radar...

    Dataset updated: 07/10/2024

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