Adelaide's New Doppler radar.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hi all,

Just thought I would post a couple of images of the new doppler radar North of Adelaide. I was out there while Geocaching this arvo.

http://www.saweather.net/temp/radome.jpg Quite a bit of heat refraction so
image looks yuk.

http://www.saweather.net/temp/gates001.jpg The main gates with the Dome
behind them and car infront of them.

It's almost completed.

WOW this gives me an idea, how about this.....

http://www.saweather.net/temp/newobs.jpg

[h0ughy (David)]

Looks like a golf ball on a tee!

Welcome to the 21st century

Now all we need is the rain to see if it works, Australia seems to be mssing a lot of that

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Lol I was just about to say it looks like a Big golf ball on a tee but you beat me to it so I won't. Oops.

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

I presume this is a "storm chaser" type radar ?
Looks impressive !

[iceman (Mike)]

That is an ugly thing.. What's it going to be used for?

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Yes and No gaa_ian. It does the usual rain reflectivity but also does a wind profile of the rain event, giving us better detection of rotating currents (tornadoes) It also does quite a bit more which I am not knowlegable on. There are 5 others being built around Australia, but this is the first.

[ving (David)]

good god! its ... unusual (better?)
anyone for golf?

oh and geocaching rocks
you done many? I only have about a dozen under my belt. and I own 2.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I wouldn't say it was ugly, unusual maybe.

[fringe_dweller]

Long as its not used for a repository/dump for the rest of Australia's (and the worlds) nuclear waste - thats all that matters
Fringey

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

The dome is actually about 2km off the closest main road, being the port wakefield road. It is located at a place called Buckland Park which serves as a research facility which also does meteor counting via radio waves aswell. I think the Dome looks quite modern and only there to serve as a cover for the radar dish, if you think that is ugly then take a look at some of the observatory domes around the place, at least they serve they're intended purpose.

Ving: I have found about 38 Caches now. I don't own any though.

For those that go with the Golfball theory, it doesn't have dimples LOL