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This frozen radar dish is a Micro rain radar. It measures precipitation (rain or snow) using microwave pulses through the atmosphere up to 6km high. Peter will use these data gathered on this voyage to validate the NZ climate model for high latitudes.

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Sadie Mills, NIWA