Identification

Title

Long-term Historical Rainfall Data for Australia

Alternative title(s)

d482001

Abstract

Australian Bureau of Meteorology assembled this dataset of 191 Australian rainfall stations for the purpose of climate change monitoring and assessment. These stations were selected because they are believed to be the highest quality and most reliable long-term rainfall stations in Australia. The longest period of record is August 1840 to December 1990, but the actual periods vary by individual station. Each data record in the dataset contains at least a monthly precipitation total, and most records also have daily data as well.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d482001/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d482001/dataaccess/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

WEATHER STATIONS > WEATHER STATIONS

FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS > FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

GROUND STATIONS > GROUND STATIONS

METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS > METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

113

East bounding longitude

154

North bounding latitude

-11

South bounding latitude

-43

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Australia/new Zealand > Australia

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2015-03-26

code identifying the extent

Continent > Australia/new Zealand > Tasmania

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1840-08-01

End position

1990-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1992-08-18

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1833

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

chifan@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

full postal address

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu/

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange - Integrated Research Data Commons (GDEX) contains an extensive collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations and model outputs to support Earth System Science research. GDEX supports "data proximate" computational research through its integration with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services [https://arc.ucar.edu/resources], which are made accessible to US researchers through a range of allocations opportunities [https://arc.ucar.edu/xras_submit/opportunities].

function: downlaod

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-03T00:37:16Z

Metadata language