|Title||Average monthly wind velocity grids (2004-2008)|
|Custodian||Bureau of Meteorology|
|Abstract||Average monthly wind velocity grids.
The grids show the wind speed and direction values across Australia.
The mean data are based on the period 1st January 2004 - 31st December 2008.
See LINEAGE below for more information.
|Search Word(s)||Gridded, analyses, wind, speed, direction, velocity, meteorology|
|Geographic Extent Names(s)||Australia|
|General Category||Gridded monthly data|
|General Custodian Jurisdiction||Australian Government
|Geographic Extent Polygon||Not applicable|
|Geographic Bounding Box||See below|
|North Bounding Latitude||4.938|
|South Bounding Latitude||-55.063|
|East Bounding Longitude||169.938|
|West Bounding Longitude||94.938|
|Stored Data Format||Arc/InfoTM grids - all Australia|
|Available Format Type||ASCII grid-point, Arc/InfoTM grid Interchange (.e00),Shapefiles.|
|Access Constraint||Please note that the copyright for any data supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology is held in the Commonwealth of Australia and the purchaser shall give acknowledgement of the source in reference to the data.Apart from dealings under the Copyright Act 1968, the purchaser shall not reproduce (electronically or otherwise), modify or supply (by sale or otherwise) these data without written permission from the supplier. Please contact us (see details below) for more information.|
|Lineage||Gridded data were generated by the MesoLAPS_PT125 Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) dynamical model which is operated by the Bureau of Meteorology. The resolution of the data are 0.125 degrees (approximately 12.5 km).
The models 10 metre zonal (u) and meridional (v) wind components at 00 UTC was used in deriving the grids.The NWP model is used to provide operational guidance in weather forecasting. The LAPS PT375 model performs the assimilation and analysis, which is then interpolated to 0.125 degrees resolution. The model performs its own forecast.
NetCDF files describe their content using three types of metadata:
|Positional Accuracy||Various types of data are used as part of the assimilation process in the model. These include synoptic, metar, ship, buoys and sonde as well as satellite driven observations. These observational data generally have an associated accuracy within the model resolution.|
|Attribute Accuracy||Not applicable|
|Logical Consistency||Not applicable|
|Completeness||No missing data|
|Contact Organisation||Bureau of Meteorology|
|Contact Position||Climate Data Services|
|Mail Address||PO BOX 1289, Melbourne 3001, Australia|
|Telephone||(03) 9669 4082|
|Facsimile||(03) 9669 4515|
|Additional Metadata||Additional information available on request (see contact above).|