Climate Classification

The Australian Climate Classification is an update of the Bureau of Meteorology's Climate Zones using the latest one-hundred years of Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) monthly rainfall, and maximum and minimum temperature analyses, downloaded from the Bureau's archive (www.bom.gov.au/web03/ncc/www/awap/...). Averages (e.g. 10-year, 20-year, 30-year) are generated from the monthly AWAP data, and climate classification data sets and images, based on the Bureau's modified Koppen classification, are created from the past climate.