Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies, Ver. 1.

This record provides a listing of meteorological data collected in the Australian Antarctic Territory by members of the Australian Antarctic program (and its predecessors) and the Bureau of Meteorology. The data have been obtained by manual observations and by automatic weather stations.

All data are available from the Bureau of Meteorology, and are considered to be the authoritative source of weather data in the Australian Antarctic Territory (as they have been quality checked). Raw data directly from the automatic weather stations at the stations is available at https://data.aad.gov.au/aws.

The data available here includes:

  • Automatic Weather Station data from 7 sites - Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island, Mawson, Wilkins, Davis Whoop Whoop, and Casey Skiway South. Data resolution varies, but is approximately every 30 minutes.

  • Daily weather data from 48 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.

  • Synoptic weather data from 53 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.

  • Terrestrial soil data from 4 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.

  • Upper air data from 5 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.

  • High resolution, 1 minute automatic weather station data from 7 sites - Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island, Mawson, Wilkins, Davis Whoop Whoop, and Casey Skiway South.

  • Daily and Synoptic data from a number of decommissioned sites.

For full site listings, seeing the file for station details within each dataset.

All data are available from the Bureau of Meteorology, and are considered to be the authoritative source of weather data in the Australian Antarctic Territory (as they have been quality checked). Raw data directly from the automatic weather stations at the stations is available at https://data.aad.gov.au/aws.

Data

Additional Information

Source https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Antarctic_Meteorology
Author Barnes-Keoghan, I.
Maintainer Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Last Updated February 2, 2024, 16:35 (UTC)
Created September 14, 2022, 21:58 (UTC)
Categories Automatic Weather Station, Observational data
Citation Barnes-Keoghan, I. (2000) Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Antarctic_Meteorology, Accessed: YYYY-MM-DD.
Collection Begin Date 1948-01-01
Collection End Date Ongoing
Data Quality Quality-controlled
Format Text
Principal Investigator(s) Barnes-Keoghan, I.