Historical data
Historical data for each site is based on the Bureau of Meteorology's ACORN-SAT high quality dataset. Some sites do not have current or historical sites available in the centre of the city. In those cases the town airport is used, as listed below.
Sites
| BOM ID | Site | Location | State | Start | End | Live? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 066062 | Observatory Hill | Sydney - City | NSW | 1910 | 2017 | Y |
| 067105 | Richmond RAAF | Sydney - West | NSW | 1939 | 2017 | Y |
| 087031 | Laverton RAAF | Melbourne - West | VIC | 1943 | 2017 | Y |
| 070351 | Canberra Airport | Canberra - Airport | ACT | 1939 | 2017 | Y |
| 094029 | Hobart (Ellerslie Rd) | Hobart - Ellerslie Rd | TAS | 1918 | 2017 | Y |
| 040842 | Brisbane Aero | Brisbane - Airport | QLD | 1949 | 2017 | Y |
| 023090 | Kent Town | Adelaide - Kent Town | SA | 1910 | 2017 | Y |
| 015590 | Alice Springs Airport | Alice Springs - Airport | NT | 1910 | 2017 | Y |
| 014015 | Darwin Airport | Darwin - Airport | NT | 1910 | 2017 | Y |
| 009021 | Perth Airport | Perth - Airport | WA | 1910 | 2017 | Y |
For more sites, check out the whole ACORN-SAT network.
For site descriptions, check out the BOM Station Catalogue.
Current observations
Current observations are based on XML data feeds from the Bureau.
- New South Wales & Canberra
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Tasmania and ... Antarctica (coming soon???)
BoM product info
Each state is associated with a letter, used in product codes (IDx, where x is the state letter), and a range of regions, used in station IDs (XYYnnn, where YY is the region number).
| State | Product letter | Regions |
|---|---|---|
| WA | W | 1–13 |
| NT | D | 14–15 |
| SA | S | 16–26 |
| Qld | Q | 27–45 |
| NSW & ACT | N | 46–75 |
| Vic | V | 76–90 |
| Tas | T | 91–99 |
Other Current Observations Formats
- IDN60901: product code
- 94768: ? ID (different to station ID)
Current observations html (syd obs) http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60901/IDN60901.94768.shtml
JavaScript Object Notation format (JSON) in row-major order http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDN60901/IDN60901.94768.json
Historical Daily Max/Min temperatures per station
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/stations/ Select location and data type. Max/min data is free
ACORN-SAT stations
Australian data: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/#tabs=Data-and-networks
Sydney data: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn/sat/data/acorn.sat.minT.066062.daily.txt http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn/sat/data/acorn.sat.maxT.066062.daily.txt
station catalogue useful when we start expanding: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/documents/ACORN-SAT-Station-Catalogue-2012-WEB.pdf
XML Feeds
- General: http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
- Anonymous: http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/anon-ftp.shtml
- Index: ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/
- NSW: ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDN60920.xml
OLD
Monthly Max/Min temperatures per station
Source: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/stations/ currently need to go through GUI possibly download direct as zip file from something like http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dailyZippedDataFile&p_stn_num=066062&p_nccObsCode=123&p_c=-872886919&p_startYear=1859
IDCJAC0010_066062_1800_Data.csv
- IDCJAC0010: product code - daily maximum temperature
- 066062: station number - Sydney observatory
- 1800: time period (s)
IDCJAC0011_066062_1800_Data.csv
- IDCJAC0011: product code - daily minimum temperature
- 066062: station number - Sydney observatory
- 1800: time period (s)
Daily max/min temperatures per station
Python code calculates 90th percentile for daily max and min data for each day going back to 1859 (for sydney) calc_maxmin.py
tmax90p_066062.csv
tmin90p_066062.csv
BOM calculated climatology
From website http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_066062_All.shtml Website allows splitting into 10,20,30 year periods. But CSV only allows all data (since 1859)