Australian Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations
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  • The data are not to be used for any commercial purpose.
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View or download Australian automatic weather station Antarctic data

  • The full dataset for each station can be downloaded as netCDF files: Click on the station name and follow the link in the next window.
  • The data can be converted to ascii (text) format using software available at this website.
  • Where several stations have been in operation at the same site, each station has an alphabetical suffix corresponding to the time the station was in operation.
  • The dataset is current to the end of 2020 and is updated at the beginning of each new year.
Station WMO number Latitude Longitude Elevation
(metres a.s.l.)
Data available
A028
A028-A
A028-B
89812 68°24'28''S 112°13'03''E 1,622 1985 - 1986
1986 - 1990
1998 - 2005
AM01   69°26'31''S 71°25'01''E 0,065 2002 - 2006
AM02   69°42'48''S 72°38'24''E 0,047 2001 - 2007
Amery G3
Amery G3-A
89767 70°53'31''S
70°50'12''S
69°52'21''E
69°54'16''E
0,084
0,079
1999 - 2017
2017 - 0000
Apfel 89602 66°20'40''S 100°48'50''E 0,150 2000 - 2001
Aurora Basin North (ABN)   71°09'59''S 111°22'13''E 2,714 2014 - 0000
B9Biceberg (U.S. National Ice Center image)   67°14'14''S 148°27'46''E 0,035 2002 - 2005
Brown Glacier, Heard Island   53°05'24''S 73°38'25''E 0,640 2000 - 2002
DomeA   80°22'03''S 77°22'26''E 4,084 2005 - 0000
DSS (Law Dome Summit South)
DSS-A
89816 66°46'09''S 112°48'38''E 1,376 1997 - 2003
2003 - 2005
Eagle   76°25'11''S 77°01'26''E 2,830 2005 - 0000
Eder Island 89644 66°57'30''S 143°56'24''E 0,052 1999 - 2000
GC41 89813 71°36'10''S 111°15'46''E 2,791 1984 - 2005
GC46 (limited data) 89805 74°08'15''S 109°50'23''E 3,096 1984 - 2001
GF08
GF08-A
89803 68°29'36''S 102°10'32''E 2,123 1986 - 1998
2000 - 2007
Lanyon
Lanyon-A
89612 66°16'42''S 110°47'48''E 0,390 1991 - 1998
1998 - 2008
Law Dome
Law Dome-A
89811 66°43'50''S 112°44'40''E 1,376 1986 - 1998
1997 - 1998
LGB00
LGB00-A
LGB00-B
LGB00-C
89762 68°39'19''S 61°06'46''E 1,830 1982 - 1989
1987 - 1993
1993 - 1995
1995 - 2009
LGB10
LGB10-A
89758 71°17'15''S 59°12'37''E 2,620 1990 - 1994
1993 - 2006
LGB20 89757 73°49'58''S 55°40'18''E 2,741 1991 - 2004
LGB35 89568 76°02'34''S 65°00'00''E 2,342 1993 - 2008
LGB46 89577 75°51'08''S 71°29'59''E 2,352 1994 - 1997
LGB59 89774 73°27'06''S 76°47'21''E 2,537 1994 - 2004
LGB69
LGB69-A
  70°50'07''S 77°04'29''E 1,854 2002 - 2007
2007 - 2008
MtBrown
MtBrown-A
89586 69°07'52''S 85°59'55''E 2,064 1998 - 2000
2003 - 2011
Panda   73°41'20''S 76°58'02''E 2,584 2008 - 0000
Ranvik 89572 68°51'22''S 78°02'21''E 0,339 2000 - 2002
Rumdoodle 89565 67°42'54''S 62°48'18''E 0,430 2000 - 2001

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