The weather research radar on the monkey island!
Posted: July 28, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Atmospheric, Atmospheric research, Australia's Marine National Facility, climate, dual-polarisation, Future Research Vessel Project, Monkey Island, RV Investigator, weather, weather radar Leave a commentAlso located on RV Investigator’s monkey island is the main mast, which houses a weather research radar.
Scientists hope to answer some of the big questions about weather, climate, and the atmospheric conditions in remote areas of the world’s oceans with the a dual-polarisation radar.
It will collect cloud and weather data from clouds towering 20 kilometres over the tropical ocean to cold ice storms in the Antarctic, in a 150 kilometre radius from the ship, and will have a broad range of research applications.
