Australian Rainfall and Surface Temperature Data

From this link, users can retrieve area-averaged monthly time series of climate variables for a user specified grid box. All climate variables are represented on a one degree grid over the Australian land surface. Users can select a boxed area as small as one grid point (1 degree x 1 degree) and as large as the whole country. Irregular areas cannot be selected. Your selected area will be highlighted in colour.

Select a climate variable Rainfall Max Temperature Mean Temperature Min Temperature Diurnal Temp Range       Select your start coordinate     Longitude: 113.5 114.5 115.5 116.5 117.5 118.5 119.5 120.5 121.5 122.5 123.5 124.5 125.5 126.5 127.5 128.5 129.5 130.5 131.5 132.5 133.5 134.5 135.5 136.5 137.5 138.5 139.5 140.5 141.5 142.5 143.5 144.5 145.5 146.5 147.5 148.5 149.5 150.5 151.5 152.5 153.5 °E     Latitude: 11.5 12.5 13.5 14.5 15.5 16.5 17.5 18.5 19.5 20.5 21.5 22.5 23.5 24.5 25.5 26.5 27.5 28.5 29.5 30.5 31.5 32.5 33.5 34.5 35.5 36.5 37.5 38.5 39.5 40.5 41.5 42.5 43.5 °S    

OR Click on a location for the top left corner of your user-defined box   Long: °E   Lat: °S

Step 1: Select the climate variable you wish to retrieve from the drop-down menu.

Step 2: By using your mouse, click on the location for the top left-hand corner of your user-defined box and then wait for the image to reload. Latitude and longitude coordinates selected represent the centre of one degree grid boxes (eg. 125.5°E represents a grid box from 125.0°E to 126.0°E). You can click anywhere on the map, including over the oceans to best define your grid. Resultant time series will represent land surface values only.

Step 3: Click on the bottom right-hand corner of your user-defined box and wait for the image to be reloaded. The resultant colour highlighted are represents your user-defined area. You can click anywhere on the map, including over the oceans to best define your grid. Resultant time series will represent land surface values only.

Step 4: Click 'Generate time series'. This will produce a bar-plot of annually averaged data for your selected climate variable and a text file of all monthly values.

You can return to Step 1 at any time by clicking the 'start again' button.

Further Information | Australian Climate Change