We’ve “modernised” the look and feel of the website, but the overall functionality is the same for now, but lots of upgrades are planned!
Some graph traces are now coloured according to the quality of the data. Tabular data and downloaded data have the quality code listed as well. See the links for quality code explanations.
Tip: Recent data is of lessor quality (QC200) as it has not been through our verification process yet.
Note: Not all of our measurements are assigned quality codes. We are gradually implementing these as standards are developed and as resourcing allows.
You can now graph (and download) incremental data (such as rainfall) using more interval options, for example hourly, daily, monthly, annual and cumulative. Additionally, the current year’s rainfall data can be over-plotted with the past 3 years as a comparison (use the Cumulative (Historic) option).
Mean daily flow values can also be plotted and downloaded.
Note that for the Cumulative (Historic) graphing option, the date range has two options; either July to June or for the last 12 months, the date range selectors have been disabled, the tabular data section has been disabled, and lastly, zooming has been disabled for now as we are still working on getting the zoomed graph plotting correctly.
Tip: Click the legend to turn any unwanted graph traces on or off.
Tip: You can list cumulative data in the Tabular Data section by selecting the Cumulative interval option.
Soil moisture content can now be graphed using two options; a line graph and now also as an envelope plot. An envelope plot has the current data over-plotted with the historic range, so you can easily compare the current values against historic minimums and maximums. Note that the date range has two options; either July to June or the last 12 months, and that the date range selectors have been disabled for this type of graph.
Tip: Click the legend to turn any unwanted graph traces on or off.
There is a new section called Site Statistics, we have added the minimum, maximum and mean values for each year of record for some measurements (Stage and Flow for starters). Watch this space for more enhancements.
Note: At the moment these statistics are calculated on the fly and cover the full range of data. Some flow monitoring stations have only been calibrated for flood flows and show incorrect readings at low flows, so use these statistics with caution. We are working towards filtering this incorrect data out of the statistics.
Underneath the available date range, there is a link to view information about the site. If there's no link, then there's no information available! We will endeavour to update these over time.
We have added new statistics for flow data. You can now see low flow and flood return period levels.
The 'Additional information about...' popup now shows a Site Administrator comment about the measurement site, if one has been set. This is in addition to the general measurement site comment.
There are two soil moisture anomaly maps; they show where soil moisture levels are higher or lower than the average for the same period in previous years.
There are two rainfall anomaly maps; they show where the total rainfall has been higher or lower than the average for the same period in previous years.
There are two interactive maps that show the spatial distribution of rainfall over the region. The Rain 1H map shows rainfall totals for each of the last 24 hours. The Rain 24H map shows a rolling 24 hour accumulation for each of the last 24 hours.
There’s a table of hourly rainfall totals for the last 24 hours. The colours of each cell change according to the hourly total.
We’ve created a Daily Climate Maps tab and this tab contains lot of new features.