Data Attribution & Licensing

Bureau of Meteorology — primary source

Rain and river observations served by Flood Sentinel come from BoM's Flood Warning Network: rainfall and river-height stations operated by BoM and contributing State and local agencies whose data is collected and published by BoM under the Water Regulations 2008.

We pull this data via BoM's public anonymous FTP (HCS files at ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/, the 659xx product range) and via BoM Water Data Online (bom.gov.au/waterdata/services). Both are free, legislated public data feeds.

Licence: Most BoM observations are made available under Creative Commons Attribution Australia 4.0 (CC BY 4.0 AU). Some products are released under different terms; the authoritative description is BoM's own Rain and River Licensing Statement.

Required attribution

Whenever BoM-sourced observations are displayed on our service or delivered via our API, we attribute as follows:

Data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Australia. © Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology).

If you redistribute or display BoM data obtained through our API, you are required by the licence to carry equivalent attribution. Our JSON responses include an attribution field for this purpose.

Derived products (forecasts)

Flood Sentinel's machine-learning forecasts, threshold breach alerts, and uncertainty bands are derived products built on top of the source observations. The derived works themselves are © Flood Sentinel; subscribers may use them per the Terms of Service.

We are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the Bureau of Meteorology or any State Emergency Service. Nothing on this service should be represented as an official BoM warning.

Other data sources

• SILO Climate Database — gridded and station rainfall data from the Queensland Government, used for historical backfill where BoM coverage is sparse. SILO terms.
• BoM Climate Data Online (CDO) — supplementary long-record rainfall stations not in the Flood Warning Network. Same licence as Flood Warning Network data above.
• State agency telemetry — some FWN stations are operated by WaterNSW, QLD DNRM, DWER WA, OEH NSW, and others. Their data flows to BoM under the Water Regulations 2008 and is republished by BoM under the licence above.

Disclaimer

The Bureau of Meteorology and contributing agencies make data available without warranty. We pass that data through with the same disclaimer:

Data is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. The Commonwealth of Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology, and the contributing State agencies disclaim all liability for any loss or damage arising from use of this data. Flood Sentinel makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of source data.