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BoM data and visualisation assets. February 2014. Overview. Introduction L inked Data Hydrologic Reference Stations WDTF Visualisation Tool Water Storages Application The Future. Introduction. 2012-13 the Bureau's website received 48 billion hits
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BoM data and visualisation assets February 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/
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 streamflowstations • http://www.bom.gov.au/water/hrs/
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
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
Thank you… Marissa Byrnes m.byrnes@bom.gov.au