Data set details

Title

Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD)

Topic

climate

Description

gridded climate data at the daily and monthly timescale for rainfall, maximum and minimum temperature, and 9am and 3pm vapour pressure.

Keywords

gridded climate data, rainfall, temperature, humidity

Data Type

raster time series

Variables

rainfall, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, vapour pressure

Domain

national

Accessibility

free and public

Contact

K.Braganza@bom.gov.au

Location of repository

NCI

Spatial resolution

0.05 degrees

Timestep

daily, monthly

Start date

1900(rainfall)/1911(temperature)/1971(vapour pressure)

End date

ongoing

Format

nc

Citation and/or DOI

Jones, D. A. Wang, W. and Fawcett, R. J. (2009) High-quality spatial climate data-sets for Australia. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal (58) 233-248