BoM data and visualisation assetsFebruary 2014

Overview

• Introduction

• Linked Data

• Hydrologic Reference Stations

• WDTF Visualisation Tool

• Water Storages Application

• The Future

Introduction

• 2012-13 the Bureau's website received 48 billion hits

• 65% increase in the number of people accessing the site from mobile devices

• Every day millions of observations are received, stored, analysed and published by the Bureau

Linked Data

• Allows users to visualise data by exploring it graphically

• Developed in collaboration with:

• The Bureau of Meteorology

• National Plan for Environmental Information Initiative

• AGIMO

• Information Engineering Laboratory (CSIRO)

• Data sets currently available

• ACORN-SAT – The Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature

• Daily temperature record over the last 100 years

• http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/

Linked Data

Linked Data

Linked Data

Hydrologic Reference Stations

• The Hydrologic Reference Stations identifies Australian streamflow trends and detects long-term variability and change in streamflow.

• Allows users to visualises historical data for 221 streamflow stations

• http://www.bom.gov.au/water/hrs/

Hydrologic Reference Stations

Hydrologic Reference Stations

Hydrologic Reference Stations

WDTF Visualisation Tool

• Allows users to visualise the data in Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) files

• Developed by CSRIO to visualise WDTF data

• The Bureau receives approximately 200, 000 WDTF files a month

• http://www.bom.gov.au/water/standards/wdtf/wdtfviewer.shtml

WDTF Visualisation Tool

WDTF Visualisation Tool

WDTF Visualisation Tool

Water Storages

• Compare water storage levels and volumes for more than 300 publicly-owned lakes, reservoirs and weirs.

• water.bom.gov.au/waterstorage/awris

• http://www.bom.gov.au/water/waterstorage/iphone.shtml

Water Storages

Water Storages App

The Future

Marissa Byrnesm.byrnes@bom.gov.au

Thank you…