Improving Australia's radar and observation network

Australians rely on our information. It helps them make critical decisions that affect safety and economic wellbeing.

Our radar and observation network collects data vital to this service.

These upgrades will give Australia a more secure, reliable and resilient weather service.

Our network

We oversee a massive radar and observation network of over 11,000 pieces of equipment across land, sea, sky and space. It includes radars, automatic weather stations, upper atmosphere monitoring devices and ocean wave buoys. They all feed data into a supercomputer. The data is a vital input for the world-leading computer modelling that informs our forecasting. Our resilient systems allow us to produce reliable warnings and forecasts for all of Australia and its surrounds. We provide these even in areas without local observations.

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