Weather data from the Macquarie University, Fauna Park Weather Station
Data files
May 08, 2024 version files 1.50 MB
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README.md
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weatherMQ-FP-20240503-commasep.csv
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Feb 11, 2025 version files 4.21 MB
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README.md
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weatherMQ-FP-20250131.csv
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Abstract
Dataset of the Barron Bee Lab weather station (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wing gust speed, wind direction, rainfall, barometric pressure) logged every 10 min from a station located at the Macquarie University Fauna Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dv41ns266
This dataset contains data of barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall and the dates and times of recording. This is a csv file with "," separators delimiting columns. A unique NA occurred in the first rainfall record before this sensor was synchronised with the other sensors (the station began recording on a clear sunny day where no rainfall occurred, this can be assumed to be 0 mm of rainfall).
Description of the data and file structure
The data structure is simple:
- weatherMQ-FP-20240503.csv presents all the data mentioned above:
- recordNumber : a unique row identifier (made of a letter indicating the recording session, followed by a successive numeric value of each record starting at 1 for each session)
- dateTime (24h "day/month/year hour:minute:second" format, Australia time, Australia/Sydney, GMT +11:00)
- temperature (Celsius)
- relativeHumidity (% humidity)
- rainfall (mm)
- windSpeed (m/s)
- windGust (m/s)
- windDirection (ø)
- barometricPressure (mbar)
- Figure 1 shows a map of the surroundings of the weather station.
- Figure 2 is a photo of the weather station.
Version changes
11 February 2025 : added data, in the same format, for the period from the 5th of February 2024 at 15:42 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) to the 31st of January 2025 at 11:49 AEST. The "recordNumber" column of previous data has been updated with a capital "A" in front of the previous record numbers, and with a "B" in front of the new records added with this update.
The Fauna Park Weather Station was established in 2023 by Théotime Colin at 211 Culloden Rd, Marsfield NSW 2122 (-33.768099, 151.112814; 33°46'05.2"S 151°06'46.1"E). The weather station is located on a grass patch surrounded by flight cages (polytunnels) on three sides (approximately 6m away from the ones north-east and south-west and 4m away from the one south-east of the weather station).
A long metallic pole was burried 70cm deep into the ground and sensors were attached directly to the pole. The system is based on a HOBO (Onset : https://www.onsetcomp.com/products/software/hoboware) U30 data logger (U30-NRC-000-10-S100 : HOBO U30, with 10 Smart Sensor capability) powered by an extra-large solar panel (SOLAR-15W, 15 Watts for HOBO U30 and RX3000 (A1-13AA)). The following HOBO sensors were connected to this logger:
- S-WCF-M003 : Davis Wind Speed & Direction Smart Sensor (A1-13A)
- S-THC-M002 : Smart Temp/RH Sensor (12-bit) w/ 2m Cable (A1-11E)
- S-RGF-M002 : Davis® 0.2 mm Rain Gauge Smart Sensor (A1-11AA)
- S-BPB-CM50 : Weatherproof Barometric Pressure Smart Sensor with 50 cm cable (A1-11A)
The temperature and RH sensor was attached hanging downwards under the solar panel to shield it from the sun.
Data are logged every 10 minutes.