Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101377

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160101377

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Improved rainfall measurement using mobile phone tower link attenuation. The project aims to use the microwave link data between mobile phone towers to complement the sparse rain gauge network in urban areas, to allow more accurate near-real-time monitoring of rainfall. Accurate near-real-time precipitation data at high resolution are critical to flash flood forecasting in and around Australia's capital cities. Current estimates suffer from the limited availability of rain gauge data in urban areas. However, mobile phone towers abound and the microwave links between them can provide information on rainfall intensity, meaning that these data could be used to supplement the rain gauge data. This project plans to develop the technology to generate precipitation maps using mobile phone network link, rain gauge and weather radar data.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $539,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Water Resources Engineering | Surfacewater Hydrology | Civil Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Weather | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments

Other Keywords

Civil Engineering | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments | Surfacewater Hydrology | Water Resources Engineering | Weather

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