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BOM HQ - Bureau Of Meteorology, High Quality Australian Daily Rainfall Observation datasets - 1910 to 2005

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The Australian Bureau Of Meteorology (BOM) - Australian Daily Observed Rainfall datasets for the period from Jan 1910 until Aug 2005. The CSIRO archive contains the daily atmospheric variable Rainfall observational data from the 181 weather monitoring stations positioned across Australia. It is often refered to as High Quality data as it is not interpolated/reanalysed or gridded. There are 181 files with each having one stations data for the entire time period in ASCII format(approximately 1 MB) with the filename being the station ID. All stations files have been tarred into a single file for storage(approximately 160MB). There is also a reduced subset of this data available spanning the years from 1960-2000 available, 1 tarred file (containing 181 files) approximately 67 MB.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title BOM HQ - Bureau Of Meteorology, High Quality Australian Daily Rainfall Observation datasets - 1910 to 2005
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/57404e88-70b4-4235-8c85-cf2d04941d76
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Tony.Rafter@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1910 - 31/08/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "BOM HQ - Bureau Of Meteorology, High Quality Australian Daily Rainfall Observation datasets - 1910 to 2005". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/bom-hq-bureau-of-meteorology-high-quality-australian-daily-rainfall-observation-datasets-1-2005