Natural Hazards Research Australia will host a webinar tomorrow on capturing cyclone data in real time.

The session is part of a series and comes before the Natural Hazards Research Forum in Adelaide on May 14-16.

University of Queensland academic Matthew Mason and James Cook University’s David Henderson will examine deployments of the Surface Weather Information Relay and Logging Network for cyclones Jasper in December and Kirrily last month.

They will explain how Natural Hazards Research Australia has assisted in streamlining data acquisition and ensuring information is available in real time. 

Since 2014, the network of six portable weather stations has been strategically positioned in advance of landfalling cyclones to capture wind speed data.

The Natural Hazards team says the threat is ever growing and the immediate need for research-backed disaster risk reduction and resilience is “clearer than ever”.

Register for the webinar, at 11am AEDT, here.