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Cape Ferguson (AIMS Wharf) Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 24/01/2026

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This historical weather data from the Cape Ferguson (AIMS Wharf) weather outstation covers the period 1-11-1983 to 30-5-1984.

Afterwards, the same unit was deployed at Cape Bowling Green and collected data at that location for the period 18-9-1984 to 4-10-1985.

Both data collection periods used telemetery to send binary data daily to a computer controlled base station. Data was verified by comparing three sets of the same data, received over three days. The base station passed data to the central computing facility at AIMS for processing.

Data recorded covers: Wind direction (0-360°); Wind run (km/hr); Air temperature (0-40°C); Water temperature (0-40°C); Barometric pressure (mB); Solar radiation (0-2500 µE/sec/M2).

Other variables: Time of day (e.g. 23:46:03); Day of the year (e.g. 118); Year (e.g. 86).

These data are collected to support scientific research. Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public as well as being available from the AIMS web site

Information about accuracy and the sensors used are in the Data Quality section of this metadata record.

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Field Value
Title Cape Ferguson (AIMS Wharf) Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3853cfc6-db3d-4f84-bb7e-8dd647eaaaf3
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 13/01/2026
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Data.gov.au