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Gridded Average Thunder-Day Metadata


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Dataset

Title

Annual thunder-day data (base climatological data sets)

Custodian

Custodian

Bureau of Meteorology

Jurisdiction

Australia

Description

Abstract

Mean annual number of thunder-days across Australia. 
The grids show the thunder-day values across Australia in the form of two-dimensional array data.
The mean data are based on the ten year period 1990-99. 

See LINEAGE below for more information.

Search Word(s)

Gridded, barnes, analyses, climatology, thunder days, meteorology

Geographic Extent Names(s)

Australia

General Category

Gridded climatological data

General Custodian Jurisdiction

Australian Government
Australia

Geographic Extent Polygon

Not applicable

Geographic Bounding Box

See below

North Bounding Latitude

-9.875

South Bounding Latitude

-44.625

East Bounding Longitude

156.375

West Bounding Longitude

111.875

Data Currency

Beginning Date

1990

Ending Date

1999

Dataset Status

Progress

Completed

Maintenance and

Update frequency

Ongoing

Access

Stored Data Format

Arc/Info grids - all Australia 

Available Format Type

ASCII grid-point, Arc/Info grid Interchange (.e00), Shapefiles. 

Access Constraint

Please note that the copyright for any data supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology is held in the Commonwealth of Australia and the purchaser shall give acknowledgement of the source in reference to the data. Apart from dealings under the Copyright Act 1968, the purchaser shall not reproduce (electronically or otherwise), modify or supply (by sale or otherwise) these data without written permission from the supplier.  Please contact us (see details below) for more information.

Data Quality

Lineage

The gridded data were generated using the Barnes 2-D meteorological analysis.  The gridpoint resolution of the data is 0.25 degrees (approximately 25km). Approximately 300 stations were used in the analysis and all station data underwent a high degree of quality control before analysis.

Positional Accuracy

The observational (station) data on which the analyses were based have an associated accuracy of the order of 0.01 degrees (approximately 1km) or better.

Attribute Accuracy

Grid point data are post processed.
For more information please contact us.

Logical Consistency

Not applicable

Completeness

No missing data

Contact Information

Contact Organisation

Bureau of Meteorology

Contact Position

NCC Information officer

Mail Address

PO BOX 1289, Melbourne 3001, Australia

Locality

 

State

Victoria

Country

Australia

Postcode

3001

Telephone

(03) 9669 4082

Facsimile

(03) 9669 4515

Electronic Mail

webclim@bom.gov.au

Metadata date

Metadata date

2003

Additional Metadata

Additional information available on request (see contact above).

Last Modified September 2007

 

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