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Cape Grim Air Archive

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station facility, located at the North/West tip of Tasmania (40° 41'S, 144° 41'E), is funded and managed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, with the scientific program being jointly supervised with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. This archive contains 1000 litre air samples contained in stainless steel flasks collected at approximately 3 monthly intervals since 1978. The archive is housed at the Aspendale laboratory of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. The Cape Grim air archive is invaluable in determining the past atmospheric composition of a wide range of gases. For some of these gases, accurate and precise analytical methods have only recently evolved (for example HFCs and PFCs). The measurements are state-of-the-art in precision and accuracy. They are used to identify trace gas trends in the Southern Hemisphere, which in turn can be used to drive climate change models and identify processes that influence changes to the atmosphere.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Cape Grim Air Archive
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/bf3ceb9b-9cea-479a-a58b-c9f0240c26fc
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Paul.Krummel@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1978
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    144.689,
    -40.683
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Cape Grim Air Archive". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cape-grim-air-archive