The Darwin meteorological station is located at Haileybury Rendall School, approximately nine kilometres east of the centre of Darwin. This ground-based station records the following data parameters sampled at 1-second intervals and averaged at 5-second intervals:

  • Global horizontal irradiance (GHI)
  • Plane-of-array (POA) irradiance
  • Wind speed
  • Wind direction
  • Ambient temperature
  • Relative humidity
  • Rainfall

This station has been operating since May 2019 and conforms to a Class A standard by IEC 61724-1 Photovoltaic System Performance – Part 1: Monitoring.

Further technical information can be found by downloading the station’s metadata including equipment types, data parameters and measurement conditions.

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The support of Haileybury Rendall School is gratefully acknowledged for hosting the weather station at their premises.