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Cape Ferguson Automatic Weather Station (North Queensland)

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 11/08/2023

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This historical weather data from the Cape Ferguson (AIMS Wharf) weather outstation covers the period 1-11-1983 to 30-5-1984.

Afterwards, the same unit was deployed at Cape Bowling Green and collected data at that location for the period 18-9-1984 to 4-10-1985.

Both data collection periods used telemetery to send binary data daily to a computer controlled base station. Data was verified by comparing three sets of the same data, received over three days. The base station passed data to the central computing facility at AIMS for processing.

Data recorded covers: Wind direction (0-360°); Wind run (km/hr); Air temperature (0-40°C); Water temperature (0-40°C); Barometric pressure (mB); Solar radiation (0-2500 µE/sec/M2).

Other variables: Time of day (e.g. 23:46:03); Day of the year (e.g. 118); Year (e.g. 86).

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Title Cape Ferguson Automatic Weather Station (North Queensland)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5b57e8cf-49f9-41c3-b821-3fbca52422fa
Contact Point
Australian Institute of Marine Science
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 24/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Data.gov.au