Mt Bellenden Ker, Queensland, Australia's wettest point

Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 31 October 2016 at 23:51:15 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 12 August 2019 at 00:27:11 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 15 August 2019 at 19:52:00 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 13 February 2020 at 00:26:59 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, mountain range, coastal, precipitations, rainfalls, orographic lift, Australia
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI (31.10.2016) - 10,6,3 natural colour - Mount Bellenden Ker lies at the base of the peninsula's tip of Queensland, Australia.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (15.08.2019) - vv,vh,vv - It belongs to the Northern end of Australia's 3500 km-long coastal range, the Great Dividing Range.
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The rain gauge at its summit records an annual average rainfall of 8 053.6 mm, making it the wettest meteorological station in Australia.
Fig. 3 - 12.08.2019 - 11,8,2 - It also holds the record for the highest rainfall in a calendar year (12 461 mm) & a calendar month (5 387 mm).
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Fig. 4 - 13.02.2020 - 4,3,2 - Rainfalls drop to 3527 mm at the coast, 1032 mm at the western foot of the range, 850 mm 50 km further west.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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