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Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Radar Wind Profilers
Information updated on Tue Aug 10 15:11:53 2004
General Data Description
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) provides data from a 50MHz
and a 920 MHz radar wind profilers. The profilers are both located at
Darwin.
Data Stream Names
twp50rwpdarX1.00 tar file
The tar files sometime contain an ascii file such as
this sample.
twp920rwpdarX1.00 tar file
The tar files sometime contain an ascii file such as
this sample.
The ascii files have the suffix ".CNS"
Measurement Description
doppler velocity (m/s)
spectral width (m/s)bom
Temporal Coverage
02/17/2004 - present
Area Covered
These profilers are located at the BOM Darwin site
Data Stream Inputs
This information is currently unavailable.
Notification Form Link
Notification form for all BOM data streams
Related Links
www.bom.gov.au
Contacts
ARM Mentor
Jim Mather
ARM Software Developer
Alice Cialella
Data Source
Institution
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Processing History
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Reprocessing History
Reprocessing Date
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Start End Reprocessing
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Reason Reprocessing
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FAQ
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Data User Notes
Note: The profiler moments data is in the NOAA .SPC binary format.
A PC based program to read these data files is available as is a PDF
file describing the format of these data.
Example Data
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Quicklook Links
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Glossary
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Acronyms
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Citable References
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