Rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations - verification 2017-05 to 2018-04

Historical rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations hourly data (2017-05 to 2018-04), used to compare and verify forecasting. Observations data is from a sample of 518 automatic weather stations (AWS) over land, and is at the surface level. Data has been aggregated from one-minute readings into hourly values, for forecast comparison purposes. This observations data is partly QC'd.\r\n\r\nForecasted weather elements include temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall probabilities, rainfall amounts, wind speed and wind direction. Different forecast products have different time resolutions, e.g. temperature forecasts are made for each hour, while maximum and minimum temperature forecasts are made for each day.\r\n\r\nThis dataset is approximately 4 Gb in size. \r\n\r\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \r\nLICENCE: The dataset referred to in this metadata record is available/ licenced under the “CC-BY-NC 3.0 au” license. The license summary may be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/ The full license text may be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/legalcode \r\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \r\nWe request attribution as : Australian Bureau of Meteorology (2018), Rainfall, temperature and wind forecast and observations - verification (2017-05 to 2018-05), {Point-of-truth authoritative version of metadata url : http://www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900703 } Downloaded from [url] on [date] \r\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \r\nPlease refer to [ http://www.bom.gov.au/other/disclaimer.shtml ], for disclaimer details.