Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Adelaide
Field Sites

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Buckland Park Christmas Island Davis Base, Antartica Mt. Gambier Pontianak The atmospheric group in conjunction with various other organisations and groups operates a number of radars and other equipment around the world.

Adelaide Airport, Australia: Our strong links with the Bureau of Meterology have enable a BLR radar to be installed here. With the collocation of daily radiosondes and a large variety of ground based and remote sensing equipment makes this an exciting location.

Buckland Park, Australia This is our primary field site, a number of radars and other experiments are situated here.

Christmas Island, Pacific A MF Spaced Antenna radar has been operated here since 1990, with a GPS system installed in 2004.

Darwin, Australia (ARM Site): As part of the TWP-ICE campagin a VHF BLT radar was installed during 2005.

Darwin, Australia (BoM Profiler Site): A 33.2 MHz meteor radar was installed here as part of the TWP-ICE campaign in 2005.

Davis Base, Antarctica

Mt. Gambier, Australia: Proximity to Buckland Park will enable investigation of large scale and duration atmospheric phenomena.

Pontianak, Indonesia: This field site is a collaboration between LAPAN, RASC and Uni. of Adelaide, amongst present equipment is a large MF radar spaced antenna/ doppler radar

Tindal, Australia: With the assistance of the RAAF and DSTO a MF radar was installed in 2001.

Tiwi Islands, Australia: During the Dawex and CPEA campaigns in 2001 and 2004 a BLR/Met radar was installed at Garden Point (Pirlangimpi) (decomissioned in 2005).