SILO Australian Climate Data (LongPaddock, Queensland)
Continuous daily climate data for Australia from 1889 to yesterday across 19 variables including derived evapotranspiration (Morton/FAO56) and synthetic evaporation, suited to agricultural and irrigation modeling. Point and gridded products (NetCDF/GeoTIFF).
longpaddock.qld.gov.au
At a glance
- Region
- Australia (Oceania)
- Coverage
- Australia
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- evapotranspiration
- climate
- rainfall
- agriculture
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: evapotranspiration
- 02
Water accounting
Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.
- 03
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: climate
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.
- 03
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
SILO web API for point time series; gridded NetCDF/GeoTIFF on AWS Public Data, accessible via URL/curl.
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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