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Australia Summary of Day and Surface Observations, 1939(1957)-1982

This dataset contains hourly observations and summary of day information from Australian observing stations generally from 1957 to 1982, but some data go back as far as 1939.

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PERIODS:

1939-01 to 1982-12

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Cloud Base	Cloud Types
Dew Point Temperature	Evaporation	Humidity	Maximum/Minimum Temperature
Precipitation Amount	Shortwave Radiation	Soil Temperature	Surface Pressure
Surface Winds	Visibility

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Platform Observations

COVERAGE:

SOURCES:

AU/BOM

Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

PUBLICATIONS:

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds523.0."

VOLUME:

2.95 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation), Binary (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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