Mt. Gambier, Australia

Radar site location: 38S,141E

Radars present:

VHF Radar

VHF Radar

Specifications

Customers:	Bureau of Meteorology, Adelaide University
Mode:	ST class spaced antenna, Doppler
Frequency:	44.75 MHz
Peak Power (kW):	36
Installation date:	October 1997
ATRAD supplied:	all components
Web site:	Bureau of Meteorology Mt Gambier profiler web page
Results:	Latest hour and 24 hour results
Site photos:	Mt Gambier VHF site photos

References

Reid, I. M., B. H. Johnson, D. A. Holdsworth, A. D. MacKinnon, J. Stickland, A. Sharp, R. A. Vincent and F. Zink, A new VHF radar for use in Operational Meteorology, Proceedings 4th International symposium on Tropospheric profiling, Sept 1998

Holdsworth, D. A., and I. M. Reid, Comparison of Spaced Antenna and Doppler Interferometer techniques using the Mt Gambier ST profiler, Proceedings 4th International symposium on Tropospheric profiling, Sept 1998. For a 261 kb postscript copy of the initial preprint of this paper click here