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1 Research and Training at Washera Geospace and Radar Science Laboratory (WaGRL)
Bahir Dar University Department of Physics Bahir Dar, Ethiopia WaGRL Group June 2009, Tunis

2 Members There are 12 members: - 4 PhD candidates - 3 MSc candidates
- 4 Staff members of BDU - 1 system administrator WaGRL website:

3 in Scientific Research Motivating collaborate
Objectives of WaGRL Creating research Environment Center of Excellence in Scientific Research Motivating collaborate Researches Producing research outputs

4 Radar System analysis Unit
Research Units Ionospheric Unit Virtual Physics Unit Radar System analysis Unit

5 Instruments in WaGRL Two dual frequency receivers one in Addis Ababa (Central) and one in Bahir Dar ( North west Ethiopia). Data Acquisition GPS Signal Receiver GPS Antenna

6 SID measuring instrument
Instruments in WaGRL…. Contd. Pulsation magnetometer station at Bahir Dar One ordinary magnetometer at Addis Ababa VLF receiver (AWESOME instrument) SID measuring instrument

7 Instruments in WaGRL…. Contd.
One magnetometer at Adigrat ( North Ethiopia) Virtual Physics Laboratory Weather Radar, the first in Ethiopia will install at Bahir Dar (world bank funded)

8 WaGRL’s Activities Establishing Virtual Physics Laboratory (VPL)

9 WaGRL’s activities…. Contd.
Training on Computational Science

10 WaGRL’s activities…. Contd.
Establishing the NCSE

11 VLF instrument installation
WaGRL’s activities…. Contd. VLF instrument installation A u g e s t 3 1 2 8

12 WaGRL’s activities…. Contd.
A WORKSHOP ON VLF REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH'S IONOSPHERE, Sept 1-2

13 On going researches WaGRL’s activities…. Contd.
Ionospheric Scintillation model over Ethiopia Optimization of coding and decoding of the Radar signals The Physics of Equatorial Electron Jet in the Ethiopian longitudinal sector Characterizing the longitudinal and temporal variations of equatorial ionospheric scintillation in Africa Three dimensional shear-wave velocity and attenuation structures of the Main Ethiopian Rift from local, regional and teleseismic earthquake data Matching and Locating lightning strike from VLF data

14 Transmitters Received
HWU NAA NAU NLK NLM NPM NRK DHO

15 Sample Broadband plots
Contd…….. Sample Broadband plots

16 Sample narrowband plot
Contd…….. Sample narrowband plot

17 Contd…….. Contin…………….

18 Contd……..

19 Thanks for your attention !!!
WaGRL website:

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