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Badu Island Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station
This dataset contains meteorological and light data from the weather station located on Badu Island in the Central / Western part of the Torres Strait. The station was installed under funding from the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
These data are collected to support scientific research.
Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public. This weather station is funded by the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
The weather station is an AIMS Mk5 system consisting of a Vaisala WXT520 weather station and a LiCor 192 Light Sensor.
Note that this station is located on land and has NO in-water sensors.
Data recorded: Barometric Pressure, Air Temperature, Humidity, Solar Radiation (PAR), Wind Direction True (vector averaged), Wind Speed True (30 min average).
The weather stations collect and store data in electronic memory every ten minutes, the station uses the 3G phone network to send the data to AIMS where it is stored in a database and then made available via the web and other systems.
The data are then checked for accuracy using a number of range and historical checks, longer term summeries are then calculated along with indicies of potential thermal stress.
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Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
Publisher
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
Owner
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Credit
- Bainbridge, Scott, Mr
- Credit
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australia.
- Credit
- Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), Australia
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - Bainbridge S ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
Point of contact
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
- Temporal resolution
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P1Y0M0DT0H0M0S
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
- Description
- Badu Island
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Extent
- Description
- Collective resources start and end dates
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2016-05-01
- Time position
- 2021-06-04
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
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- Downwelling vector irradiance as photons (PAR wavelengths) in the atmosphere
- Wind speed in the atmosphere
- Pressure (measured variable) exerted by the atmosphere
- Precipitation duration (liquid water equivalent) in the atmosphere
- Wind from direction in the atmosphere
- Precipitation rate (liquid water equivalent) in the atmosphere
- Relative humidity of the atmosphere
- Temperature of the atmosphere
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
- Other constraints
- Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2020). Northern Australia Automated Marine Weather and Oceanographic Stations, Sites: [Badu]. https://doi.org/10.25845/5c09bf93f315d, accessed[date-of-access]".
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Description
- Sustained speed of the wind (distance moved per unit time by a parcel of air) parallel to the ground at a given place and time
Identifier
- Description
- Measurement as a phenomenon (as opposed to a co-ordinate) of the force per unit area exerted by the atmosphere determined in-situ at a known altitude.
Identifier
- Description
- Direction relative to true north from which the wind is blowing
Identifier
Identifier
- Description
- The ratio of the amount of water vapour in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapour that can theoretically be held at the air's temperature
Identifier
- Description
- The degree of hotness of the atmosphere expressed against a standard scale. Includes both IPTS-68 and ITS-90 scales.
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre ()
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
TOWNSVILLE
Queensland
4810
Australia
- OnLine resource
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Data access via Programming API
Data access via Programming API
- OnLine resource
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Marine Weather Observations for Badu Island
Marine Weather Observations for Badu Island
- OnLine resource
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Data access via AODN Portal
Data access via AODN Portal
- OnLine resource
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Link to the TSRA Web site
Link to the TSRA Web site
- OnLine resource
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Data access using R
Data access using R
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Statement: Data from AIMS weather stations are subjected to two quality control processes. The first quality control process involves applying automatic rules to the raw data to flag data points that are unlikely to be correct. These rules flag: - Values frequently associated with sensors which are faulty, in need of a service or are not working properly. - Values outside believable ranges. - Values that are out of range compared to other nearby stations. The second quality control process involves manual visualisation of all data. Data from all sensors are individually graphed and compared to sensors on the same station (e.g. water temperature 1 and water temperature 2), calibrated temperature loggers, predicted values (e.g. PAR) or compared to sensors from nearby stations (including Bureau of Meteorology stations in the case of barometric pressure, wind speed and direction). After these processes have been applied the data can be categorised in the following three levels. Level 0: Raw unprocessed data as received from the AWS. This data has had no quality control process applied to it. Level 1: Level 1 data has had all suspect data points removed but no suspect data points are corrected. Level 2: Level 2 data has had all suspect data points that were removed in Level 1 corrected where possible. Data from all three levels can be accessed from the AIMS weather station web site.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- edd96151-16f3-46f0-9310-4ed36a0ce791
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - AIMS Data Centre
PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3
TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE
Queensland
4810
Australia
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- Hours of service
- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-08-01T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-02-15T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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