Rainfall at One Tree Island from 2008 to 2021

From 18 November 2008 to 11 June 2021, rainfall data was collected at One Tree Island by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network. This facility is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project (GBROOS). The data is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Modeling freshwater input to reef ecosystems based on rainfall measurements.
• Analyzing long-term precipitation trends for a specific coral reef location.
• Correlating rainfall events with other marine sensor data from the observing network.
• Validating satellite-derived precipitation estimates with ground-based sensor data.

Strengths

• Data covers a substantial time range of over 12 years, from 2008 to 2021.
• Collected by a dedicated facility (Wireless Sensor Networks Facility) within a national observing system (IMOS).
• Focuses on a specific, ecologically significant location (One Tree Island in the Great Barrier Reef).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being from a single Australian island.

Provenance

Source

Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network, part of IMOS/GBROOS.

Collection Method

Collected by wireless sensor networks.

Time Range

18 November 2008 to 11 June 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 15:47:46.916578; freshness should be verified.

Geography

One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia