Hokkaido East radar is located at:

+43.53 N, +143.61 E (geographic coordinates)

36.76, -144.78 (AACGM magnetic coordinates, model=2005)

L = 1.558

 

Hokkaido West radar is located at:

+43.54 N, +143.61 E (geographic coordinates)

36.77, -144.78 (AACGM magnetic coordinates, model=2005)

L = 1.558

 

The address of the Hokkaido East / West radar is:

Pontomamu, Rikubetsu-town

Ashoro-gun, Hokkaido 089-4346

Japan

 

The content of the hdw.dat.hok hardware parameters file is shown below:

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# SD_BEGIN>

# This file defines all the hardware parameters for all the radars

# the format of the file is:

# station_id, year, yr_sec, lat, long, altitude, boresite, bm_sep,

# vdir, atten, tdiff, phidiff, interfer_pos[3], rec_rise

#

# This set of data is for Hokkaido East

#

 

40 2999 31556736 +43.53 143.61 480.0 +30.0 +3.24

+1.0 10.0 -0.25 +1.0 0.0 -100.0 +2.89 100.0 7 75 16

 

40 2999 31556736 +43.53 143.61 480.0 +30.0 +3.24

+1.0 10.0 0.0 +1.0 0.0 -100.0 +2.89 100.0 7 110 16

 

#

# This set of data is for Hokkaido West

#

 

41 2999 31556736 +43.53 143.61 479.0 -30.0 +3.24

+1.0 10.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 -100.0 +2.55 100.0 7 110 16