• Climate Services
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• Climate Data Service
• Climate Monitoring Service

The national requirement for high quality and timely climate data, information, analyses and prediction, has increased substantially over recent years as users have become more aware of the benefit that such information can bring to both public and private sector decision making. Wide interest in the climate change issue has focussed particular attention on the need for long term, high quality, systematic climate monitoring systems, that will contribute both to an improved understanding of the complexities of the naturally varying climate system and the detection of trends over time due to either natural influences or human activities.

Climate Services encompass the provision of climatic data, information and advice to the general public and a wide range of specialist users. Long-term climatic data, obtained from both basic and special observation networks and stored in the National Climatological Data Bank, are published in the form of climate summaries and atlases, and made available in both hard copy and computer-compatible form for use in research, design and other applications. Climate Services also include the month-tomonth and year-to-year monitoring of major climatic fluctuations such as drought and flood rains and, to the extent possible, the prediction of climatic anomalies and trends likely to affect agriculture and other weather and climate sensitive sectors of the economy.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s Climate Services are coordinated by the National Climate Centre (NCC), located in the Bureau's Head Office, and are provided through the NCC, Regional Offices and Field Meteorological Offices around Australia.

The past year saw increased benefits to the community through a range of enhanced climate services, from the National Climate Centre and the Climate and Consultative Services Sections of the Bureau’s seven Regional Offices.