The Australian Gridded Climate Data dataset is a 5KM gridded daily product provided by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Version 1 contains precipitation, vapour pressure and minimum and maximum temperature. Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2020),
Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD); v1.0.0 Snapshot (1900-01-01 to 2020-05-31). Downloaded from NCI on 09-21-2021.
The Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology; The Australian Water Availability Project; The AusCover facility of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
agcd_version :
AGCD (AWAP) v1.0.0 Snapshot (1900-01-01 to 2020-05-31)
analysis_components :
0900: the gridded vapour pressure value at 9am; 1500: the gridded vapour pressure at 3pm; 0900rmse: the gridded root mean square error between the analysis and the input station anomaly data for 9am; 0900anom: the anomaly between the 9am analysis and the underlying 9am climatology for the 1971-2000 period; 1500rmse: the gridded root mean square error between the analysis and the input station anomaly data for 3pm; 1500anom: the anomaly between the 3pm analysis and the underlying 3pm climatology for the 1971-2000 period.
attribution :
Data should be cited as : Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2020), "Australian Gridded Climate Data ( AGCD ) / AWAP ; v1.0.0 Snapshot (1900-01-01 to 2020-05-31)". Downloaded from NCI on [date]. The metadata repository for this dataset is https://doi.org/10.4227/166/5a8647d1c23e0.
cdm_data_type :
Grid
copyright :
(C) Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2020, Bureau of Meteorology (ABN 92637 533532)
data_format :
netCDF4 with zlib compression
date_created :
2017-03-07T08:30:03.928732
date_issued :
2020-12-02 15:35:07
description :
This AGCD data is a snapshot of the operational AWAP dataset, updated every 6 months. It covers the most recent version of the complete historical archive, excluding grids covering the most recent 6 months. If you require data covering the most recent 6 months or wish to use this data for commercial purposes please contact Bureau of Meteorology Climate Data Services at climatedata@bom.gov.au
geospatial_lat_max :
-9.975000381469727
geospatial_lat_min :
-44.525001525878906
geospatial_lon_max :
156.27499389648438
geospatial_lon_min :
111.9749984741211
history :
id :
Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD)
institution :
Australian Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
keywords :
Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor
keywords_reference :
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2015. GCMD Keywords, Version 8.1. Greenbelt, MD: Global Change Data Center, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL:http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/keywords.html
keywords_vocabulary :
GCMD Science Keywords, Version 8.1
licence :
Data Licence: The grid data files in this AGCD Snapshot are available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 International Licence. The CC-BY-NC 4.0 International ( Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC v.4.0 international ) license summary may be found here: [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ]. The full license text may be found here: [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode ]. This AGCD snapshot will be available for registered researchers, from NCI
Data is from site-based observation data recorded in the Australian Database for Meteorology and processed using methods described in the references
standard_name_vocabulary :
CF Standard Names, v28
summary :
The partial pressure of water vapour in air (vapour pressure) is calculated from dewpoint temperature, which is derived from measurements of temperature using dry and wet-bulb thermometers. Measurements are made at 0900 and 1500 each day and recorded against the current day's date. Monthly vapour pressure data are calcuated from the average of the daily data. Vapour pressure data from up to 750 sites across the country are analysed onto 0.25x0.25 and 0.05x0.05 degree grids with very limited quality control. A sophisticated analysis technique described in Jones et al. (2009) is used to interpolate the data on to a regular grid. A 1971-2000 climatology epoch is used.
