Monash University X-Band

Overview

Mobile radar offers the promise of providing key decision support for meteorological hazards and evolving fire behaviour in and around fire grounds. In order to test the concept, a high-power mobile dual-polarimetric weather radar was successfully deployed near several prescribed environmental burns in south-west Western Australia as part of a collaborative project between Monash University and state and federal agencies. The project aims were to demonstrate the feasibility of deploying a mobile dual polarization radar near a fire, and to capture data that is relevant to nowcasting of hazards and that can contribute to development of improved tools for fire management.

This subcollection is separated into six case study events. Level 1 (odimh5) data is provided for each event.

Please use the following reference and DOI

May, P., Pascal, M., Curtis, M., Mobile X-band radar data from radar fire plume project Western Australia: The logistics and science of collecting detailed radar data at prescribed fires. electronic dataset, National Computing Infrastructure, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/8mhp-jj14

This project was undertaken with the assistance of resources and services from Monash University, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australian Bureau of Meteorology.