About Water and the Land
Purpose of Water and the Land
The Bureau's Water and the Land web site aims to provide an integrated suite of information for people involved in primary production, natural resource management, industry, trade and commerce.
The website brings together a range of services from rainfall forecasts for the week ahead to climate change and trend maps in an easily accessible and intuitive way.
Content
The site integrates information from diverse Bureau services and presents links in groups organised by weather elements, including rainfall, cloud, temperature, wind, pressure, El Niño and La Niña, humidity, evaporation and sunshine. Bureau pages that combine information for a range of weather elements are linked from the group called 'Weather & Climate'.
Within each group links are organised chronologically. Depending on the range of products available for the group, long-term outlooks are listed first, followed by shorter-term forecasts, latest weather, recent weather, averages then long-term trends.
All links are displayed within the main area of the first page of the Water and the Land site. The left hand column presents a simplified view of the groups of links. Clicking on any of the links in the left hand column will present the full list of links for that weather element, as well as linking to the feature product for that element.
Feature Services and Information
The first page of each weather group features a new service
or one of the most popular services accessed. For example the
Rainfall group features the rainfall forecast
service that is based on statistical analysis of a number of
locally produced and international computer models.
Further service information is available
within the Water and the Land site.
| Group | Feature |
|---|---|
| Rainfall | Rainfall forecasts, chance of exceeding 1,5,10,15, 25 & 50mm in one day, 4 Day forecast totals out to 8 days |
| Cloud | Latest satellite images |
| Wind | Wind forecasts out to 7 days |
| Pressure | Latest 4 day forecast chart |
| El Niño & La Niña | Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) |
| Humidity | Average relative humidity maps |
| Evaporation | Average Monthly & Annual Evaporation maps |
| Sunshine | Average daily sunshine hours maps |
| Weather & Climate | Daily Weather Observations in Recent Months |
| Australian Climate Influences | A range of climate information pages explaining many of the key influences on our weather. |
Support information
Near the top of Water and the Land product pages there are links to supporting information. This information
explains aspects of the product and how it is produced and includes links to related products, references and
guides.
Example:
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