# 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.

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.

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.