SILO Redevelopment
Are you aware that the SILO climate database has been redeveloped. The new system is now available for use. Some benefits of the new system:
• all datasets are now free of charge (supported by the Queensland Government’s Open Data initiative)
• data can now be distributed as they are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence
• users can now download gridded data (data are in NetCDF format). Please see the new web site for more information about accessing the gridded data.
• the new web interface is much easier to use than the old interface
• the new Application Programming Interface (API) enables users to query the amount of observed data available at each station
• patched point datasets are available at nearly all (18,700) stations (previously patched datasets were only available at a modest subset of the stations)
The APSIM SILO mirror based out of Toowoomba will stop working soon. You will need to switch the new SILO climate database as soon as possible.
You can find the SILO Getting Started Guide here