Observing Australian Climate Change

Australia's meteorological networks include about 1000 land-surface stations recording a wide variety of weather elements, many thousands of daily rainfall stations, and dozens of weather balloon stations and weather-watch radars. However, not all these data sources are suitable for climate change purposes. Many historical data records are too short or incomplete to calculate reliable trends. Many also have data quality problems that prevent data recorded at different times in the past being directly compared. Information about the networks and datasets used to monitor Australia's changing climate are provided here.

Climate site data provides access to the high-quality site data used to monitor long-term trends in Australia's climate.

Climate change datasets provides access to compressed datasets of all the high-quality site data used to monitor long-term trends in Australia's climate.

TC archive provides historical Tropical Cyclone information for the Australian region and the Southern Hemisphere.

RCS network provides information about the meteorological observing stations included in Australia's Reference Climate Station (RCS) network.