Marburg Radar will have the same ‘real-time’ observation capacity by the end of this year.
WORK is underway on upgrading the Marburg weather station to dual polarised Doppler radar technology.
Bureau of Meteorology’s Dr Peter Stone said the radar will be off-line until late this year while technicians install the new technology.
“This is the same technology that the Mt Stapylton radar uses for observing real-time rainfall and wind conditions across large areas,” he said.
“[It] will make Marburg a more reliable secondary weather radar, providing equivalent image quality to the Mt Stapylton weather radar.
“During this time, the existing Mt Stapylton weather radar will continue to provide coverage and a temporary radar at Brisbane Airport will serve as an additional weather radar for the region. “
Dr Stone added that the Marburg radar was one part of a comprehensive weather observation network of more than 11,000 assets including satellites, upper atmosphere monitoring, automatic weather stations, ocean buoys and flood warning networks.
“There will be no impact to the Bureau’s forecasts and warnings, which are informed by observations from a range of assets including satellites, upper atmosphere monitoring and automatic weather stations.”
