Environmental Information Products and Services Directory

The directory provides a central point of access for environmental information products and services that have relevance to Australian Government and its stakeholders. The directory has been developed as an activity under the National Plan for Environmental Information Initiative.

The products and services listed below include links to relevant custodians. Refer to the acronym list for departments, agencies and organisations.

This mobile phone application presents key economic indicators, census data, and the Australian population clock.
ABS
AGSURF contains survey data and financial, physical and socioeconomic information for the broadacre and dairy sectors from 1990-2012.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
These annual reports are compendiums of historical statistics covering the agriculture, fisheries, food and forestry sectors. They provide a set of comprehensive statistical tables on Australian and world process, production, consumption, stocks and trade for nearly 20 commodities.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The Atlas of Living Australia is a national initiative to bring together information, and in particular research data, about Australian plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms. This assists in recording, managing and analysing biodiversity data.
CSIRO | Australian Government
The AuScope platform enables an integrated approach to geoscience through investments in technology, data and knowledge infrastructure. It aims to assist Australian researchers in monitoring and understanding the structure and evolution of the Australian Continent.
Australian Government
AusCover provides a national network and a data delivery service for provision of Australian biophysical remote sensing data time-series, continental-scale map products, and selected high-resolution datasets over Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network sites.
CSIRO | TERN
The rainfall and river conditions website provides rainfall and river data collected for flood warning purposes from a network of stations across Australia.
BoM
Australia's Virtual Herbarium provides access to plant, algae and fungi specimen data held by Australian herbaria.
ALA
The Australian Antarctic Data Centre website provides online access to a broad range of scientific information about Antarctica.
Department of the Environment
This project is designed to monitor sea level around the coastline of Australia, with an emphasis on the enhanced greenhouse effect. Selected hourly, monthly and yearly reports are currently available.
BoM
The Australian Biological Resources Study provides online taxonomic and biological information on species known to occur in Australia.
Department of the Environment
This web portal provides tools and secure information services for biosecurity researchers to collaborate and integrate research, surveillance, diagnostics and emergency response activities.
CSIRO
This scheme manages the collation of data on threatened and migratory bird and bat species. Users can search the database, become a bander and find out why banding is used.
Department of the Environment
The Australian Chart Index contains lists of Australian Paper Charts, Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Cells, and Seafarer Raster Nautical Chart (RNC) Region Packs and Seafarer Day Packs.
Department of Defence
The ACORN-SAT dataset provides a record of daily temperatures over the last 100 years.
BoM
The Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility (ACEF) collects and distributes key coastal datasets for use in the protection and use of Australia's coastal assets. The ACEF website provides coastal data and research portals, satellite imagery, a list of coastal plans and policies, and the National Marine Turtle Database.
CSIRO | TERN
The Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program provides the framework and focus for the collection, collation, management, dissemination and analysis of nationally consistent, integrated data and information on soil and land resources.
CSIRO | Department of Agriculture
The knowledge hub provides research, resources and news relevant to emergency management. It includes statistics and information, photos, video and media about past disaster events.
Attorney-General's Department
The Australian Environmental-Economic Accounts brings together all ABS environmental accounts to deliver a cohesive picture of the environmental stocks and flows of relevance to Australia’s economy and society.
ABS
This annual publication presents data from state, territory and Commonwealth commercial fisheries (both wild catch and aquaculture).
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The Australian Flood Risk Information Portal hosts data and tools that allow public discovery, visualisation and retrieval of flood studies, flood maps, satellite derived water observations and other related information.
GA
Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics provides quarterly and annual data on the consumption, production, import and exports of wood and paper products.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The AGOS infrastructure will enable collection of new baseline data including surface geospatial and subsurface imaging and monitoring data, to provide better long-term management of crustal services, particularly in Australia's energy-rich sedimentary basins.
AuScope
The portal contains information on the Australian Government's space-related activities and the Australian space sector, as well as links to space-related research organisations, events and our international partners.
Department of Industry
The Australian Groundwater Explorer provides access to a wide range of groundwater data, including around 800,000 bore locations, bore logs and landscape characteristics. This information can be visualised and analysed for the area of interest and datasets can be downloaded.
BoM
The Australian Heritage Database contains information about more than 20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places.
Department of the Environment
The Australian Heritage Places Inventory contains summary information about places listed in State, Territory and Commonwealth Heritage Registers and Lists.
Department of the Environment
Geofabric is a specialised Geographic Information System. It registers the spatial relationships between important hydrological features such as rivers, water bodies, aquifers and monitoring points.
BoM
The AIMS Data Centre provides descriptions of data (and metadata) for marine science subjects, and links to other specialised tropical marine applications.
AIMS
The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal presents articles for the atmospheric, oceanic and related sciences on topics relevant to the Southern Hemisphere.
BoM
The Australian National Shipwrecks Database includes information on all known shipwrecks in Australian waters.
Department of the Environment
The Australian Natural Resources Data Library allows users to search all datasets used in the Australian Natural Resources Atlas, which provides online access to information to support natural resource management.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
This interactive tool allows users to interrogate, display and download data about streamflow and streamflow variability in Australia.
BoM
Australian Notices to Mariners are the authority for correcting Australian Navigational Charts and Australian Nautical Publications and are published every fortnight by the Australian Hydrographic Office.
Department of Defence
The Australian Ocean Data portal is an online database for search, discovery, access and download of marine data collected by the Australian marine community.
Australian Government
The Earth Observation Group provides advice and information on Australia's satellite data, products and services.
GA
ASRIS provides online information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia. It includes general descriptions of soil types and landforms across the continent and information relating to soil attributes such as depth, water storage, carbon and erosion.
CSIRO
The Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) monitors the state and trend of the terrestrial water balance of the Australian continent. The AWAP website provides water balance maps, reports and data files.
CSIRO BoM
Australian Water Resources Assessment reports highlight patterns, trends and variability in water quantity at regional to national scales and over time from months to decades.
BoM
The Australian Wetlands Database provides access to online information on the values of nationally important wetlands across Australia.
Department of the Environment
The Australian bathymetry and topography grid, June 2009 is a downloadable consistent, high-quality 9 arc second bathymetric grid for Australian waters.
GA
Climate Change in Australia shows how Australia's climate may change in the future. Climate change projections are available for low, mid-range and high greenhouse gas scenarios - drawing on scenarios developed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.
BoM | CSIRO
This online schematic diagram presents the main influences on the Australian climate.
BoM
The Australian ground cover reference sites database provides site descriptions and field measurements of the different ground cover at sites across Australia.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
This package includes a database of observations collected at ground cover reference sites between July 2010 and February 2013, and instructions for use of the data.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
Before the Storm is an educational game for middle year students designed to get them thinking about storm preparation and disaster resilience.
Attorney-General's Department
The Biodiversity Volunteer Portal uses the power of online volunteers to digitise biodiversity data that is locked up in biodiversity collections, field notebooks and survey sheets.
ALA
The Bioregional Assessment Programme is being undertaken by the Australian Government to strengthen the science underpinning decision making on coal seam gas and large coal mining developments. The website will provide a range of data and tools for understanding the impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining developments on water resources.
Department of the Environment | BoM | CSIRO | GA
The Biosecurity Bulletin is a monthly, online newsletter providing information on how biosecurity is managed overseas, at the border and within Australia by the Department of Agriculture.
Department of Agriculture
The botanical databases website provides links to databases which provide information about Australia's flora.
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Bureau of Meteorology mobile weather website makes it easier and quicker for you to check Australia's official weather forecasts, wherever you are.
BoM
This monthly e-newsletter snapshot summarises the most interesting and exciting science news stories and events of the month.
CSIRO
This website presents monthly data obtained from the Cape Grim baseline air pollution station in Tasmania. Air samples are analysed at the station to determine concentrations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases and other air pollutants.
CSIRO
Catchment scale land use data provide a record of the dominant land use for a given area, classified according to the nationally agreed Australian Land Use and Management standards.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The Chemical Monitoring Database provides a snapshot of chemical monitoring activities in Australia. It contains details of the monitoring activities and where results and reports can be obtained.
Department of the Environment
The Climate Change Adaptation Information Hub provides an interactive information hub to improve local, regional and national climate change adaptation responses. It will increase the accessibility of existing climate change adaptation data and facilitate the input, analysis and dissemination of new data and knowledge.
Australian National Data Service | Griffith University | Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
Climate Data Online provides access to a range of statistics, historical weather observations, climatology maps, and other Australian climate data.
BoM
The Climate Model Summary provides Pacific and Indian Ocean temperature outlooks for the next six months based on a survey of international climate models.
BoM
This monthly video provides an update on El Niño/La Niña developments; seasonal outlooks of rainfall, streamflow and temperature across Australia for the next three months and beyond.
BoM
This webpage provides links to information about weather conditions in Australia including past, future and present. It includes links to seasonal outlooks, reports, summaries and maps. Data services provide past weather and climate information from the Bureau's Australian climate data archive.
BoM
This webpage provides information on the science of climate change and climate variability. It includes climate updates, trend maps and information about relevant datasets.
BoM
Meteorological analyses for Australia were generated as a contribution to the Australian Water Availability Project. They include rainfall, temperature, vapour pressure, solar exposure and the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) over time periods ranging from daily, weekly, monthly to 3-yearly.
BoM
Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota is a continuously maintained and expanding 8-digit coding system for aquatic organisms in the Australian region.
CSIRO
The Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database contains information on the conservation of biodiversity in protected areas throughout Australia.
Department of the Environment
Communities for communities is a newsletter about threatened ecological communities nominated for listing under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Department of the Environment
This web-based mapping tool presents location maps of biologically important areas for Australia's marine protected species.
Department of the Environment
This website provides information and warnings about current tropical cyclones in Australia and its waters.
BoM
Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government.
Australian Government
Decision Point is a monthly online magazine that presents articles, views and ideas on environmental decision making, biodiversity, conservation planning and monitoring.
Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
The DigiVol project digitises the text written on biological specimens from the Australian Museum collection, allowing the data to be accessed electronically. The information is usually in the form of a label and may include where the object was collected, collection date, collector name, and what the object is.
Australian Museum
Discover Information Geographically allows the user to discover what information the Department holds on a particular topic of interest or for an area of interest. Entries currently cover data and publications, but will be extended to incorporate map services and printed maps.
Department of the Environment
The Drought Statement provides a monthly summary of rainfall deficiencies in Australia.
BoM
DustWatch provides access to data and information on wind erosion in Australia. The information includes wind erosion histories, modelled wind erosion data and community Dustwatch monitoring reports.
Australian Government | NSW Office of Environment and Heritage | Griffith University
The earth observation and satellite imagery website provides a starting point for earth observation services, advice and information.
GA
A web summary of earthquake activity is presented for Australia and its surrounding regions using maps.
GA
The ENSO Tracker indicates the likelihood of an El Niño or La Niña weather event occurring using a three-stage warning system.
BoM
The ENSO Wrap–Up provides information on El Niño/La Niña weather patterns for Australia.
BoM
This monthly podcast covers the latest issues in emergency management from dealing with bushfires, cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis, to complex policy development or program delivery.
Attorney-General's Department
Emissions projection publications are produced annually and provide analysis of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions profile forecasting including trends, changes, comparisons and future projections.
Department of the Environment
This publication presents information on factors that affect energy use including dwelling structure, insulation type and electrical appliances within households.
ABS
This publication presents information on people's views and practices related to environmental issues; including personal water and electricity use, waste collection and disposal, and voluntary environmental involvement.
ABS
The e-Atlas is a website and mapping system for presenting environmental research data and information on the Great Barrier Reef and terrestrial tropical ecosystems.
AIMS
eXchange is an electronic newsletter about environmental information activity with a focus on Australian Government developments, including strategic activities, new and existing products and services and major events.
BoM
enGauge is an online newsletter about all things associated with water, such as dam water levels, new policies and regulations and catchment information.
BoM
envstats is the environment statistics newsletter of United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). It provides information about the activities of the UNSD and developments elsewhere in the field of environment statistics.
UNSD
FIND is the Australian Government’s spatial data catalogue, providing the ability to search and download a wide range of spatially-referenced datasets created by both the Australian and State and Territory Governments.
GA
This website and database provides information on vertebrate pests within Australia and New Zealand. Tools include a searchable database, decision support tools, teaching resources and maps. The website also provides access to the PestSmart Toolkit which provides information and guidance on best-practice invasive animal management on several key vertebrate pest species.
IACRC
Fire weather warnings are issued when the weather conditions are conducive to the spread of dangerous bushfires.
BoM
This mobile phone application provides information on current fire incidents and total fire bans across NSW and the ACT.
NSW Rural Fire Service
Forests Australia contains up-to-date information on Australia's forests, including links to forest management organisations, forest-related publications, maps and tools.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
Frost potential maps show forecast low temperature thresholds for various Australian weather station locations. This is a trial service.
BoM
The Geophysical Archive Data Delivery System provides magnetic, radiometric, gravity and digital elevation data from Australian National, State and Territory Government geophysical data archives.
GA
A number of mobile phone apps are available to assist farmers with topics including cereal nutrition, field peas, insect and weed identification, and climate data.
GRDC
The Sightings Network is an avenue for reef users to tell the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority about marine animals seen on the reef. Users are encouraged to send in observations, photographs and video recordings.
GBRMPA
This publication provides information on the gross value of agricultural commodities produced with the assistance of irrigation.
ABS
The Ground Cover Monitoring project aims to develop and implement a nationally agreed, reliable and cost-effective basis for measuring and mapping groundcover using satellite imagery.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
Hazard News is an online newsletter providing updates on the research findings and activities of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.
Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
High seas forecasts are issued twice daily and include information on wind, waves, temperature and rain for areas beyond the coastal waters surrounding Australia.
BoM
This project will provide a comprehensive analysis of Australian Indigenous bio-cultural data.
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis
The indigenous weather knowledge webpage displays seasonal weather calendars, developed over thousands of years by Indigenous communities.
BoM
IMOS is a fully integrated, national-scale, in-situ, ocean observing system. It observes open ocean to coastal areas and covers physical and biological variables to improve understanding of climate change in Australia. All IMOS data are freely available through the IMOS Ocean Portal.
Australian Government | University of Tasmania
The Integrated Vegetation Cover dataset represents vegetation cover across Australia, including native forests and woodlands, grasslands and non-native vegetation.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre is operated 24 hours a day and detects, monitors, verifies and warns of any tsunami threat to the coastline of Australia and its offshore territories.
BoM | GA
This land account presents changes in land use, cover and value over time including changes in the five Natural Resource Management regions adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef.
ABS
This publication provides detailed information on major agricultural activities, land use, and key land management practices.
ABS
This website contains information about land use, land management practices and land cover mapping in Australia, access to national classification systems, technical reports supporting mapping work, and analysis of land information.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) monitoring provides data on major fluctuations in tropical weather, attributed to this weather pattern.
BoM
MapConnect is an interactive online service that provides mapping tools and information, allowing free download of Australian maps and data.
GA
This webpage provides maps of Australia including maritime zone maps, geophysical maps, geological maps, hydrogeology maps, geothermal maps, and bathymetry and topography maps.
GA
These maps show the variability of the Australian climate by providing information about average as well as more extreme conditions.
BoM
The Marine Water Quality Dashboard is a tool to access and visualise a range of water quality indicators for the Great Barrier Reef. It enables access to near real-time data, and over ten years of information, on sea surface temperatures, chlorophyll levels, suspended sediments, and coloured dissolved organic matter.
BoM
Marine wind forecasts are issued twice daily and provide graphical information on wind direction and speed for different marine areas across Australia.
BoM
The Maritime Gazetteer of Australia is a searchable database containing all the place names used in Australia's official navigational charts.
Department of Defence
Measures of Australia's Progress presents key statistical measures that demonstrate change and progress in areas including society, the economy and environment.
ABS
MetEye is an online mapping tool used to visualise weather observations and forecasts for Australia. It presents information on temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, sea surface temperature, river conditions and cloud cover.
BoM
The Monitor is an online tool that delivers a broad range of climatic, production, biophysical and economic information, for various regions throughout Australia.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
A series of documents provide monthly overviews of temperatures, rainfall and significant weather events in Australia.
BoM
This software provides the ability to analyse large amounts of spatial information and conduct spatial information assessments.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority website features a range of images, river data and information for the Murray-Darling Basin region.
MDBA
This website provides information about the Basin Plan and provides a coordinated approach and framework for water use across the Murray-Darling Basin's four States and the ACT.
MDBA
This repository is designed as an open access digital archive for publically-funded information derived from Australian Government investments in natural resource management activities.
Australian Government
The National Atlas of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems displays ecological and hydrogeological information of known groundwater dependent ecosystems and ecosystems that potentially use groundwater.
BoM
The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset of Australia provides a nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia.
GA | Department of Agriculture ABARES
This portal provides access to digital elevation data on Australia's landforms and seabed.
GA
The National Greenhouse Accounts are prepared to meet Australian Government international reporting commitments and support the implementation of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System. The accounts provide information on greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and assist the Australian Government in developing climate change policy and tracking progress towards targets.
Department of the Environment
This central repository provides information on the biology, ecology and distribution (international and national) of invasive marine pest species. It includes known introduced species and those with potential for future introduction.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
National Map is a website that provides map-based access to Australian spatial data from government agencies.
Department of Communications
The National Pollutant Inventory database presents annual information of emissions of 93 key pollutants to the air, water and land from industry facilities, and information on waste transfers from facilities.
Department of the Environment
The National Vegetation Information System provides information on the extent and distribution of vegetation types in Australian landscapes.
Department of the Environment
National Waste Reports are published every 3 years and detail current and future trends in waste and resource recovery.
Department of the Environment
The National Water Account provides standardised annual information about the management and use of Australia's water resources, including water stores and flows, water rights and water use.
BoM
The Bureau of Meteorology flood forecasting and warning service uses rainfall and streamflow observations, numerical weather predictions and hydrologic models to forecast and warn for possible flood events across Australia.
BoM
National seasonal temperature outlooks are general statements about the probability or risk of wetter or drier than average weather over a three-month period.
BoM
The Native Vegetation Condition Tool provides a consistent national approach to assessing vegetation condition. It employs the national framework established with the states which orders native vegetation by degree of anthropogenic modification as a series of condition states.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
This e-newsletter provides a summary of activities from the Northern Australia Hub of the National Environmental Research program.
NERP Northern
Modelled ocean forecasts provide information on sea temperatures and currents across Australian waters.
BoM
This mobile phone application allows users to retrieve lists and details of species recorded within an area. Users can submit species occurrence records with an image to the Atlas of Living Australia, and view the latest images added to the Atlas.
ALA
OzCoasts provides comprehensive information, modelling and tools for Australia's coastal areas, including the impacts of climate change.
GA
The Pacific Climate Change Data Portal provides access to raw and homogenised temperature and rainfall data for several countries and islands in the South Pacific region.
BoM
This website provides a graphical map of heatwaves, severe heatwaves and extreme heatwaves for the current day extending out for the next four days.
BoM
Plant Protection News is a periodical email newsletter published by the Office of the Chief Plant Protection Officer. It features news on Australian national emergency responses and preparedness activities for economically significant plant pests, diseases and weeds.
Department of Agriculture
The Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia (POAMA) is a seasonal to inter-annual seasonal forecast modelling system that provides a number of experimental operational products.
BoM
The Protected Matter Search Tool provides the ability to search for matters protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Department of the Environment
This website provides the latest space weather observations and forecasts. Users can also subscribe to reports and alerts.
BoM
The Rainfall Deficiency Analyser provides information on rainfall deficiencies in Australia.
BoM
Rainfall and temperature records provide the highest and lowest temperatures and rainfall levels for each Australian state and territory.
BoM
Rainfall forecasts, over a five-day period, are produced through computer modelling and published graphically, for districts around Australia.
BoM
ReefTemp Next Generation is a set of high resolution mapping products that provide information on coral bleaching risk for the Great Barrier Reef region.
BoM
This website provides data and information about the Murray-Darling Basin covering topics such as river levels and flow, water storage, inflows and releases, water quality and operational activities. It also provides spatial data and cartographic mapping products and a Knowledge and Information Directory for the Basin.
MDBA
The Australian Hydrographic Service is responsible for the publication and distribution of nautical charts and other information required for the safety of ships navigating in Australian waters.
Department of Defence
The Australian Hydrographic Service publishes a range of fact sheets on issues relevant to ships navigating in Australian waters. Topics include the accuracy and reliability of charts, chart symbology, electronic navigation charts, and hydrographic surveying.
Department of Defence
This dataset is a tiled compilation of multibeam data held by Geoscience Australia lying within the outer edge of Australia's offshore area, and some data in international waters, as of August 2012. The data are gridded to a resolution of 50 metres and are available in several formats.
GA
Seasonal climatic outlooks are produced on a three-monthly basis and provide information on rainfall, temperature, El Niño/La Niña status, streamflow, tropical cyclones and climate models.
BoM
Streamflow forecasts are presented graphically for north-eastern Australia, providing the likelihood of low, near median or high streamflows over a three-month period.
BoM
Sentinel is a national bushfire monitoring system for the provision of timely information about bushfire locations to emergency service managers across Australia.
GA
The Severe Storms Archive contains data relating to recorded severe thunderstorm and related events in Australia dating back to the 18th Century.
BoM
The SoilMapp application for iPads allows users to access the best available soil information for their location from Australia's national soil databases.
CSIRO
The Southern Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook is an annual publication providing information on the threat of bushfire for each region in Australia.
Bushfire CRC
The Southern Oscillation Index indicates the development and intensity of El Niño or La Niña events in the Pacific Ocean.
BoM
Spatial sea surface temperature anomaly forecasts are plotted for the Great Barrier Reef using the Bureau of Meteorology's seasonal prediction system.
BoM
Special climate statements provide a detailed summary of significant (and unusual) weather and climatic events in Australia.
BoM
The Species Profile and Threats Database provides information about species and ecological communities listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Department of the Environment
This database contains map summaries which provide general information on the distribution of about 1,725 nationally threatened and migratory species.
Department of the Environment
The State of the Climate report provides a summary of observations of Australia's climate and analysis of the factors that influence it.
CSIRO
Published every 5 years, State of the Environment reports provide information about the current condition of the Australian environment, the risks it faces and whether we are doing enough to protect it.
Department of the Environment
Australia's State of the Forests Report is produced every five years to report on the status of Australia's forests, including their management, use and conservation.
Department of Agriculture ABARES
This mobile phone application provides weather, temperature, UV level and sun protection times for the day anywhere in Australia.
BoM
The Sustainable Australia report, released every two years, reports on a set of National Sustainability Indicators which include social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability.
Department of the Environment
The Data Discovery Portal delivers open access to Australia's terrestrial ecosystem data. It includes a map interface to search for data by geographic location.
TERN
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) enables ecosystem science data to be shared and integrated across disciplines. The TERN newsletter is released monthly and provides an update on TERN activities.
TERN
The Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network connects ecosystem scientists and enables them to collect, contribute, store, share and integrate data across disciplines. This contributes to effective management and sustainable use of ecosystems.
Australian Government | University of Queensland
This website provides a centralised point-of-access to environment and energy related statistics and activities from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It provides a list of relevant releases, contacts and advice.
ABS
The Tropical Cyclone Outlook is a regular report on existing and potential cyclones in Australia.
BoM
The Tropical Cyclone Risk Model is a computational tool developed for assessing the wind hazard from tropical cyclones.
GA
The National UV Forecast Graph shows the maximum clear sky UV Index at noon for the whole of Australia. The State UV Forecast Map shows UV Index forecasts for specific locations in states and territories.
BoM
Water Observations from Space provides a continent-wide picture of Australian surface water detected from satellite imagery.
GA
This publication presents estimates of agricultural water use, including pastures and crops irrigated, irrigation water sources, methods used, and water management.
ABS
The water restrictions website provides information about current water restrictions around Australia. It is searchable by State or Territory, water agency and restriction name.
BoM
The water storage website (and associated iPhone app) allows users to compare water storage levels and volumes for 250 publically-owned lakes, reservoirs and weirs in states and territories and to see how much water is available in Australia.
BoM
This e-newsletter provides the latest news from the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship and its collaborations with research, industry and government partners.
CSIRO
This website provides an online weather community where Australians can share weather observations, information and photos.
BoM
This webpage provides information about the Bureau of Meteorology weather stations, which can help users to select the type of data they require.
BoM
The Bureau of Meteorology operates a nationwide network of over 60 Weather Watch radars. This website provides radar locations, images, news and education.
BoM
The analysis chart archive provides access to weather maps for the Australian, Southeast Asian/Western Pacific and Southern Hemisphere regions.
BoM
The Weeds in Australia webpage provides an overview and tools for weeds, their management and identification.
Department of the Environment
The Weekly Tropical Climate Note is a summary report and forecast of Australia's tropical climate, produced on a weekly basis.
BoM
The weekly rainfall update provides a detailed analysis and map of rainfall recorded across Australia during the past week.
BoM