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:
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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.
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Daily weather data from 48 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.
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Synoptic weather data from 53 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.
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Terrestrial soil data from 4 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.
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Upper air data from 5 sites. Note - not all of these sites are still operational.
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High resolution, 1 minute automatic weather station data from 7 sites - Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island, Mawson, Wilkins, Davis Whoop Whoop, and Casey Skiway South.
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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.
