Rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations - verification 2017-05 to 2018-04

Brief description

Historical rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations hourly data (2017-05 to 2018-04), used to compare and verify forecasting. Observations data is from a sample of 518 automatic weather stations (AWS) over land, and is at the surface level. Data has been aggregated from one-minute readings into hourly values, for forecast comparison purposes. This observations data is partly QC'd.

Forecasted weather elements include temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall probabilities, rainfall amounts, wind speed and wind direction. Different forecast products have different time resolutions, e.g. temperature forecasts are made for each hour, while maximum and minimum temperature forecasts are made for each day.

This dataset is approximately 4 Gb in size.

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LICENCE: The dataset referred to in this metadata record is available/ licenced under the “CC-BY-NC 3.0 au” license. The license summary may be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/ The full license text may be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/legalcode
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We request attribution as : Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2018), Rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations - verification (2017-05 to 2018-05), {Point-of-truth authoritative version of metadata url : http://www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900703 } Downloaded from [url] on [date]
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Full description

ETA_Data_Brochure.html - Explanatory information about the dataset, including the data structure, the meaning of the information and typical use cases
station_map.png - Companion image for the data brochure (store in the same location)
spatial_metadata.tar.gz - Station metadata and station groupings
aws_hourly_20170501-20180430.tar.gz - Automated weather station observations from May 2017 to April 2018
Op_Official_20180501-20180531.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from May 2018
Op_Official_20180401-20180430.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from April 2018
Op_Official_20180301-20180331.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from March 2018
Op_Official_20180201-20180228.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from February 2018
Op_Official_20180101-20180131.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from January 2018
Op_Official_20171201-20171231.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from December 2017
Op_Official_20171101-20171130.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from November 2017
Op_Official_20171001-20171031.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from October 2017
Op_Official_20170901-20170930.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from September 2017
Op_Official_20170801-20170831.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from August 2017
Op_Official_20170701-20170731.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from July 2017
Op_Official_20170601-20170630.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from June 2017
Op_Official_20170501-20170531.tar.gz - Official point forecasts from May 2017
Point-of-truth metadata url - Bureau's Point-of-truth authoritative version of metadata