1. BoM data and visualisation assets February 2014

2. Overview Introduction Linked Data Hydrologic Reference Stations WDTF Visualisation Tool Water Storages Application The Future

3. 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

4. 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/

5. Linked Data

8. 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/

9. Hydrologic Reference Stations

12. 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 mlhttp://www.bom.gov.au/water/standards/wdtf/wdtfviewer.sht ml

13. WDTF Visualisation Tool

16. 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

17. Water Storages

18. Water Storages App

19. The Future

20. Marissa Byrnes m.byrnes@bom.gov.au Thank you…