Bureau of Meteorology, Department of the Environment and Heritage ( Australia )
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Atmosphere
Condition
The following 11 out of 15 criteria
1. | Serve as a robust indicator of environmental change |
2. | Reflect a fundamental or highly-valued aspect of the environment or an important environmental issue |
3. | Be either national in scope or applicable to regional environmental issues of national significance |
4. | Provide an early warning of potential problems |
5. | Be capable of being monitored to provide statistically verifiable and reproducible data that shows trends over time and, preferably, apply to a broad range of environmental regions |
6. | Be scientifically credible |
7. | Be easy to understand |
8. | Be monitored with relative ease |
9. | Be cost-effective |
13. | Contribute to the fulfillment of reporting obligations under international agreements |
15. | Where possible and appropriate, be consistent and comparable with other countries� and state and territory indicators |
Monthly measurements
Temporal range of the available data, as described by the metadata record, is from 01-Apr-1948 .
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'This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_monthly_max_temp when using these data.'
'Data arising from this project are available from the state of the environment indicator URL given below.'
The annual cycle can be seen in the plots of highest monthly air temperatures. This cycle makes it hard to see long-term trends but can be removed by using monthly anomalies, which show the difference between the value for a given month and the long-term mean value for that month.
The anomaly data show significant warming at Macquarie Island, but not at the Antarctic sites.
It should be noted that the data have not been corrected for any changes in site location, site exposure, instrumentation or observing practices.
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There has been a slight reduction in the highest monthly air temperature over recent years at Macquarie Island, as can be seen in the anomaly data. However, over the whole period of record significant warming has taken place there. No such warming trend is evident for the Antarctic sites.
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For definitions of the Scale categories, consult the Explanation of the Status Categories
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Project 805 - Meteorology Observations |
Scientific Bibliography 17261 - CSIRO Impacts and Adaptation Working Group (IAWG) (2001) Climate Change Impacts for Australia. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Aitkenvale, Queensland, pp 8 |
Scientific Bibliography 17262 - White, W.B. & Peterson, R.G. (1996) An Antarctic Circumpolar Wave in Surface Pressure, Wind, Temperature and Sea-Ice Extent. Nature, Volume 380, pp 699-702. |
Scientific Bibliography 17264 - CSIRO (2001) Climate Change Projections for Australia. Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne pp.8 |
SOE Indicator 1 - Monthly mean air temperatures at Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 3 - Lowest monthly air temperatures at Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 4 - Monthly mean lower stratospheric temperatures above Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 5 - Monthly mean mid-tropospheric temperatures above Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 6 - Daily mean 10m Firn Temperatures at AWS sites in the AAT (deg C) |
SOE Indicator 8 - Monthly mean atmospheric pressure at Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 11 - Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas species |
SOE Indicator 14 - Midwinter atmospheric temperature at altitude 87km |
SOE Indicator 16 - Extent of summer surface glacial melt (sq km) |
SOE Indicator 42 - Antarctic sea ice extent and area |
SOE Indicator 56 - Monthly fuel usage of the generator sets and boilers |
SOE Indicator 59 - Monthly electricity usage at Australian Antarctic Stations |
SOE Indicator 70 - The presence or absence of vascular plant species in two defined areas of Heard Island |
SOE Indicator 71 - The distribution and extent of Sphagnum moss on Macquarie Island |
SOE Indicator 76 - Monthly fuel usage of ships travelling to Australian Antarctic Stations |
The properties link can be used to view details of the parameters measured for this indicator.
Parameter Name | Unit of measure | Properties |
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Air Temperature | deg C | Properties |
Air Temperature Anomaly | deg C | Properties |
The following parameters and/or sensor notes are from the metadata record.
AWS
TEMPERATURE SENSORS
Thermometers
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_monthly_max_temp
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1272
Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre