Australian Meteorological Association - Citizen Science Unit
Cape Borda 1861-1880
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
SA Regional Office
Sub-daily readings for the west end of
Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Adelaide Temperature
Analysis 1857-1956
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
SA Regional Office
Daily Adelaide Glaisher stand
max/min temperature readings
Tasmania 1840-1847
Rossbank Observatory, Libraries
Tasmania, Series NS218
Sub-daily recordings and daily
descriptions of meteorological and
magnetic conditions
Adelaide 1843-1856
National Australian Archives AP810
Series 58
Some of the earliest meteorological
observational records taken in the town
of Adelaide, Colony of South Australia
Upper Winds 1950-1957
National Australian Archives AP810
Series D1348
Upper Winds for up to 50 stations across
Australia in 2000+ images containing
approx. 2.5 million data points
Tiparra Lighthouse 1878-1901
National Australian Archives D30
Part (not inc’l 1901-1920)
1500 images of sub-daily readings from
Tipara Reef screwpile Lighthouse, Spencer
Gulf, South Australia
CONTACT
mbenoy@bom.gov.au
ABOUT
This website is a proof of concept image portal for Project Met-ACRE. It recognises that in the weather data rescue
workflow, it is much faster to image a page of numerous handwritten observations than to digitise the observations for
inclusion in electronic databases. As a result, many data rescue projects build a large portfolio of images with distant
and even doubtful chances of being fully digitised. MERIT is being designed to rescue these images before they also get
lost like the original documents they were supposed to preserve.
Adelaide Observatory1858-67
National Australian Archives AP810
Series 23
The first meteorological records kept by
newly appointed Met. Observer, Charles
Todd at the new West Terrace Observatory
Weather Folios 1879-1957
National Australian Archives AP810
Series D1348
A collection of 65,000 images of
Australasian synoptic charts, news text
and other descriptive maps and charts
