DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dv41ns266
title: Weather data from the Macquarie University, Fauna Park Weather Station

description: Dataset of the Barron Bee Lab weather station (temperature, relative
 humidity, wind speed, wing gust speed, wind direction, rainfall,
 barometric pressure) logged every 10 min from a station located at the
 Macquarie University Fauna Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
description: The Fauna Park Weather Station was established in 2023 by
 Théotime Colin at 211 Culloden Rd, Marsfield NSW 2122 (-33.768099,
 151.112814; 33°46'05.2"S 151°06'46.1"E). The weather
 station is located on a grass patch surrounded by flight cages
 (polytunnels) on three sides (approximately 6m away from the ones
 north-east and south-west and 4m away from the one south-east of the
 weather station). A long metallic pole was burried 70cm
 deep into the ground and sensors were attached directly to the pole. The
 system is based on a HOBO (Onset :
 https://www.onsetcomp.com/products/software/hoboware) U30 data logger
 (U30-NRC-000-10-S100 : HOBO U30, with 10 Smart Sensor capability) powered
 by an extra-large solar panel (SOLAR-15W, 15 Watts for HOBO U30 and RX3000
 (A1-13AA)). The following HOBO sensors were connected to this
 logger: S-WCF-M003 : Davis Wind Speed
 & Direction Smart Sensor (A1-13A) S-THC-M002
 : Smart Temp/RH Sensor (12-bit) w/ 2m Cable (A1-11E)
 S-RGF-M002 : Davis® 0.2 mm Rain Gauge Smart Sensor
 (A1-11AA) S-BPB-CM50 : Weatherproof Barometric
 Pressure Smart Sensor with 50 cm cable (A1-11A) 
 The temperature and RH sensor was attached hanging downwards
 under the solar panel to shield it from the sun. Data
 are logged every 10 minutes.
description: # Macquarie University, Fauna Park Weather station
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dv41ns266](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dv41ns266) This dataset contains data of barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall and the dates and times of recording. This is a csv file with "," separators delimiting columns. A unique NA occurred in the first rainfall record before this sensor was synchronised with the other sensors (the station began recording on a clear sunny day where no rainfall occurred, this can be assumed to be 0 mm of rainfall).  ## Description of the data and file structure The data structure is simple: * weatherMQ-FP-20240503.csv presents all the data mentioned above: * recordNumber : a unique row identifier (made of a letter indicating the recording session, followed by a successive numeric value of each record starting at 1 for each session) * dateTime (24h "day/month/year hour:minute:second" format, Australia time, Australia/Sydney, GMT +11:00) * temperature (Celsius) * relativeHumidity (% humidity) * rainfall (mm) * windSpeed (m/s) * windGust (m/s) * windDirection (ø) * barometricPressure (mbar) * Figure 1 shows a map of the surroundings of the weather station. * Figure 2 is a photo of the weather station. ## Version changes **11 February 2025 :** added data, in the same format, for the period from the 5th of February 2024 at 15:42 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) to the 31st of January 2025 at 11:49 AEST. The "recordNumber" column of previous data has been updated with a capital "A" in front of the previous record numbers, and with a "B" in front of the new records added with this update.