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Please be advised that the data and information provided by this demonstrator:
This demonstrator provides data for 65 weather radars across Australia, sourced from the NCI data catalogue. Two full years of data have been processed (back to July 1st, 2023). For earlier dates, please refer to the NCI, which provides a complete archive. For various reasons, data may be incomplete—15-minute intervals, full days, or entire radar datasets may be missing. While we have endeavoured to provide warnings to highlight these inconsistencies, care should still be taken.
Please use the radar coverage and extent layers to interpret results. Particularly in relation to the outer extent (edges of radar footprint), misleading zero values (beyond detection) may be prevalent in these areas and will affect summed totals and visualisation.
Important: Where the selected area of interest is covered by multiple radar footprints, a very simplistic calculation is used to determine which data is presented. This is based solely on the distance from the centre point of the area of interest to the nearest radar. No consideration is given to the type or quality of the radar, or the availability and completeness of its data. No merging or accumulation of data from multiple radar areas has been attempted. Additionally, areas of beam blockage—caused by obstructions, altitude, or proximity to the radar—are presented as-is.
The demonstrator has been artificially limited for performance reasons.
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Based on the Bureau of Meteorology weather radar network and its derived Rainfields3 data,
this tool visualises historical rainfall information for a selected area and
timespan at 500m resolution.
Please note: This is a demonstration product.
Read our disclaimer carefully to understand its limitations.
How to get started:
Please note: Area selection is limited to 20,000 Ha
Area selection size is limited to 20,000 Hectares, this roughly equates to a 14km x 14km square. Area selection is further restricted to 1000 Ha when the chosen timespan is longer than 5 months.
At the present time, data is available for the last 2 years (back to 1/7/2023)
The application demonstrated here has been built based on the work of CeRDI HDR Peter Weir and his recently published research paper .
Data is based on the Bureau of Meteorology Radar network and its derived Rainfields3 product available for download from the NCI . Additional information is available in the Rainfields3 support guide and overview of Rainfields 3 Presentation .
Introductory information and getting started using the map.
Click to measure distances or areas on the map.
No displayable fields per custom_attributes configuration.
