This data set contains hourly values for a wide range of meteorological and climatological parameters. Depending on the parameter, the hourly value may be a snapshot value taken at the top of the hour, an average value for the last hour, an extreme value within the last hour, or the sum for the last hour. Visual observations taken at the top of the hour are also included.
The oldest data in this dataset are sunshine data (duration of sunshine in an hour) from Vienna from 1880. From 1941 onwards, hourly data for air temperature, humidity and precipitation are also available for a few stations. From around 1950 onwards, the number of parameters measured or observed and stations has continuously increased. With the gradual conversion of manual stations to (semi-)automatic weather stations (TAWES) since the 1980s, many meteorological parameters are now recorded automatically. These are checked for quality and stored as data sets. The GeoSphere Austria station network now comprises around 260 automatic measuring stations. The GeoSphere Austria measuring stations cover all climate regions and altitudes in Austria.
The quality status of individual parameters can be found in the quality flag with the name suffix _flag. The data set is updated every 10 minutes based on the archived databases, whereby retroactive changes may also occur due to data verification.

Further reading
- Description of quality flags

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