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Wind storm classification database

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This database presents classified wind gust events for all Australian Automatic Weather Stations, based on semi-automatic classification of 1-minute observations of wind gust speed, temperature, dew point and station pressure. Wind events are classified based on the temporal evolution of the weather variables, using convolutional kernel transforms. Additional attributes include a number of derived variables (e.g. rainfall preceding and following the gust event), contemporaneous weather phenomena and binary classifications from a range of authors.

The main classification is described by Arthur, Hu and Allen (submitted to Natural Hazards, 2024).

Weather observation data are provided by the Bureau of Meteorology. Lightning data (2004-2024) was provided by TOA Systems Global Lightning Network.

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Field Value
Title Wind storm classification database
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e068ab91-45cd-45b8-9753-8406ab492645
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2000 - 30/06/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Wind storm classification database". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/wind-storm-classification-database