Daintree Rainforest Cape Tribulation Weather Data 2006-2014

Encompassing daily weather station records from the Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation site, covering a nine-year period from 2006 to 2014. It includes measurements of air temperature, wind speed, solar radiation, relative humidity, and rainfall.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term trends in air temperature and rainfall within the Daintree Rainforest ecosystem.
• Model solar radiation patterns against relative humidity to study microclimate dynamics.
• Correlate wind speed data with rainfall events to understand storm patterns in the Cape Tribulation region.

Strengths

• Covers a nine-year time range from 2006 to 2014.
• Includes five distinct weather variables: air temperature, wind speed, solar radiation, relative humidity, and rainfall.
• Data is sourced from a specific, well-instrumented site at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory.

Limitations

• Unknown sample size and row count.
• Data may have gaps or inconsistencies typical of long-term, automated environmental monitoring.
• Limited to a single geographic location, restricting broader regional analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Collected by an automatic weather station.

Time Range

2006 to 2014

Freshness

Data collection ended in 2014; the dataset itself was last updated in 2026.

Geography

Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation site, Australia