Additional climate products

Tropical cyclone data


Abstract
Mean annual number of tropical cyclones in gridded format. The grids show the number of tropical cyclones across Australia in Neutral, La Niña, El Niño and all years. The mean data are based on a 30 year period 1969/70 to 1998/99.

Metadata
CUSTODIAN: Bureau of Meteorology
GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT NAME(S): Australia
AVAILABLE FORMAT TYPE(S): ASCII row major, Arc/Info grid export (.e00), Shapefiles.
SCALE/RESOLUTION The resolution of the data is 2.0 degrees (approximately 200km).

More information about the grids is available from the detailed metadata file.


Copyright Information
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. Enquiries should be made in the first instance to the address below.
 
Format: CD-ROM or FTP
Price: Please see charges page for gridded data costs.
Contact:
    Email Data requests & enquiries
    Telephone  03 9669 4082
    Fax 03 9669 4515
    Post Data Services
  National Climate Centre
  GPO Box 1289
  Melbourne, 3001, Australia
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Last modified 17 May 2007