Climate Information and Resources

Data

• About Climate data online
• How to get data - FAQs
• Climate data FAQ
• About daily weather observations

Other climate data services

• Gridded climate data sets
• Getting other data
• Charges for climate services

Statistics

• About climate statistics

Rainfall

• Observation of rainfall
• About rainfall data
• Rainfall statistics terms
• Rainfall observer guide (pdf 1.3 MB)

Temperature

• Observation of temperature
• About air temperature data
• Temperature statistics terms

Weather stations

• What is a Bureau station?
• Weather station directory
• List of all stations (zip)
• Long record temperature stations (csv)
• Reference climate stations
• Guidelines for the siting & exposure of instruments & observing facilities (pdf 620kb)

Maps

• Recent-conditions maps
  • About the rainfall maps
  • About temperature maps
  • About water vapour pressure maps
  • About solar radiation maps | Glossary
  • About vegetation curing (NDVI) maps
• Climatology maps
  • About climate maps
  • About map periods

Seasonal outlooks

• About El Niño and La Niña
• Australian rainfall patterns during El Niño and La Niña events
• About the Indian Ocean Dipole
• About ENSO outlooks
• About POAMA forecasts

Climate change

• Climate change
  • About time series
  • About average maps
  • About trend maps
  • About the climate extremes analyses
  • About rainfall and temperature extremes
  • About high-quality site data