University of Queensland X-Band (UQXPOL)

Overview

UQ XPOL is a solid state Furuno WR2100 mobile radar mounted on a trailer and opertated by the University of Queensland. It was initially designed to study coastal thunderstorms interactions with sea breezes (Soderholm et al. 2016). It was further used as part of the Bushfire Convective Plume Experiment (McCarthy et al. 2018) to capture wildfire -generated smoke plume and clouds. It is being used as part of a Google.org funded project aiming at capturing pyroconvective activity in South-East Queensland and NSW, Australia. The dataset includes a variety of hydro and pyro atmospheric processes. It includes polarimetric variables. It is in the native Furuno format.

This subcollection is separated into a number of products that relate to the level of processing applied.  Please refer to the associated records linked below for more information about each product.

Please use the following reference and DOI

McGowan, H., Soderholm, J., McCarthy, N., Guyot, A., Protat, A.: Mobile X-Band radar data from UQ-XPOL: Data from Coastal Convection in Eastern Australia, and Wildfire generated smoke plume and clouds from Queensland, NSW and Victoria, Australia. electronic dataset, National Computing Infrastructure, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/yqwe-0563

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

Field Campaigns

• CCIE: Coastal Convective Interactions Experiment

• uqhail: Hailstorm measurements from the UQHAIL experiment

• BCPE: Bushfire Convective Plume Experiment

• LowryHonours: Honours project by Andrew Lowry to investigate polarimetric rainfall retrievals during east-coast low events in Southeast Queensland, Australia

• BURN: Google funded project to develop nowcast tools for bushfire hazards