AAT Weather Data

Two single-board computers gather the data every 5 seconds from sensors mounted either in and around the dome, or from sensors mounted in a Stevenson Screen and tower located some 100 metres from the dome. These data are gathered and collated by a small computer located in the AAT control room and are plotted as 1 minute averages. The times are local and do not take account of daylight saving.
Type
Collection
Title
AAT Weather Data
Collection Type
Dataset
Access Privileges
Optical Astronomy
Brief Description
This dataset consists of historical meteorological conditions at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, a division of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. Data from http://site.aao.gov.au/met/metdata.file is downloaded daily, merged into a weekly dataset file and uploaded every Monday.
Full Description
Two single-board computers gather the data every 5 seconds from sensors mounted either in and around the dome, or from sensors mounted in a Stevenson Screen and tower located some 100 metres from the dome. These data are gathered and collated by a small computer located in the AAT control room and are plotted as 1 minute averages. The times are local and do not take account of daylight saving.
Contact Email
aatts@aao.gov.au
Fields of Research
0201 - Astronomical and Space Sciences
Date Coverage
2013-01-29
Year of data publication
2013
Publisher for Citation
The Australian National University Data Commons
Rights held in and over the data
http://site.aao.gov.au/copyright.html
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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