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Average daily sunshine hours maps

These maps show the daily average number of bright sunshine hours across Australia for each month and the year. Sunshine hours are obtained from the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder, which uses a glass sphere to focus the sun's rays onto a calibrated paper card. When the sky is clear the focused rays burn a trace on the card, which is then used to determine the daily length of 'bright sunshine'.
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Get maps of annual, monthly and seasonal sunshine-hours for Australia.

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The sunshine-hour data are also available in a gridded electronic format.

sunshine hours map View the weather stations used to generate these maps as well as related documentaion about the maps.

Last Modified 28 June 2006    Product ID code : IDCJCM0013

 

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