Hourly near-surface air temperature grids for Australia

This collection provides hourly near-surface (1.5 m) air temperature grids for Australia with a spatial resolution of 1 km. These data are spatially interpolated using quart-variate thin plate splines (full spline dependence on easting, northing, elevation, and time-varying coastal distance index), and include two key products: i) a long term climatology for every hour on every 5th day of the year (representing 1990-2019), and ii) a time-series of hourly air temperature data beginning on 01/Jan/2015.