Upper Air Sounding Observations for Australia 2000-2015

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Australian Sounding Observations Data 2010-2015

    • Principal Investigator / ResearcherRoss Bunn
    • Project Data ContactRoss Bunn, ross.bunn@monash.edu | Dr Hamish Ramsay, 03 99024213, hamish.ramsay@monash.edu
    • DATA LOCATION:

/g/data1/ua8/Upper_Air_Observations_Australia/

PROJECT: ua8 | (register here)

    • CREATED BY: Ross Bunn on 30/06/2015
    • EXTRACTEDfrom the Bureau of Meteorology's Climate Zone webpage (see README.txt file for URL).
    • SITE LOCATIONS: 50 Australian sites including Capital Cities (see station_list.txt file for the full list of stations).
    • TIME PERIOD: 1 Jan 2000 - 30 Jun 2015 (NOTE - some stations ceased operation in that time)
    • VARIABLES:

WINDS (speed in knots, direction in degrees), TEMPERATURE (Deg C) DEW POINT TEMPERATURE (Deg C) RELATIVE HUMIDITY (%) GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT (m) PRESSURE (hPa)

    • DATA FORMAT: comma delimited, times are in UTC
    • DATA QUALITY: A mix of quality controlled and NOT quality controlled. QC Flags are included in dataset for each variable measured. (see README.txt for Quality Control Flag descriptions)