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Location in Tasmania where air samples are collected The Cape Grim Air Archive (CGAA) also "Kennaook/Cape Grim" [ 1 ] is a facility of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology 's Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Tasmania , that aims to collect air samples starting from 1978.
Tasmania has a cool temperate climate with four distinct seasons. The highest recorded maximum temperature in Tasmania is 42.2 °C (108.0 °F) at Scamander on 30 January 2009, during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave. Tasmania's lowest recorded minimum temperature is −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) on 7 August 2020, at Central Plateau. [1]
The CP2 Research radar was a 1970's era radar, which the BoM received as a gift from the NCAR in the United States. The BoM retrofitted it with modern parts which gave it the unique ability to collect data at two frequencies, S and X band. The upgrades also provided state of the art dual polarisation and doppler technologies.
During the heat wave, several records were broken; Tasmania recorded its highest-ever temperature; 42.2 °C (108 °F) in Scamander, and the long-standing Tasmanian record of 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) (recorded in Hobart on 4 January 1976) was broken five times within two days at Flinders Island, Fingal (twice), St Helens and Scamander, [7] while Hopetoun in Victoria recorded the state's highest ...
The Bureau of Meteorology reported that 2007 was the hottest year ever recorded in Launceston since temperatures were first recorded in 1884. Temperatures ranged from a minimum of 8.1 °C (46.6 °F) to a maximum of 19.2 °C (66.6 °F). [9] During 2006 and 2007, Launceston had the hottest maximums throughout the state.
Cape Grim, officially Kennaook / Cape Grim, [2] is the northwestern point of Tasmania, Australia.The Peerapper name for the cape is recorded as Kennaook. [3]It is the location of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station and of the Cape Grim Air Archive [4] which is operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology [5] in a joint programme with the CSIRO.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together the state meteorological services that existed before then. [ 3 ]
Since 2013, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) divided Tasmania into eleven land-based districts for the purpose weather forecasting. In addition, the Bureau detailed nine coastal districts and a further five inshore districts covering the bays and channels in the River Derwent lower estuary. [9] Land based districts