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/ Linked Data Linked Data Linked Data 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 streamflow stations • http://www.bom.gov.au/water/hrs/ Hydrologic Reference Stations Hydrologic Reference Stations Hydrologic Reference Stations 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.sht ml WDTF Visualisation Tool WDTF Visualisation Tool WDTF Visualisation Tool 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 Water Storages Water Storages App The Future Thank you… Marissa Byrnes m.byrnes@bom.gov.au