Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) is a data delivery standard implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) that was jointly developed with the CSIRO.
[1] The standard, released in 2009, specifies both the format of and the techniques used to deliver Australian water data measurements to the BoM.
[2] The Water Act 2007 (Cth) requires some private organisations and government agencies in Australia that collect water data and to deliver it to the BoM according to the WDTF standard.
[3] An external meteorological data source that delivers data in WDTF-compliant forms is the CSIRO Land & Water's Automatic Weatherstation Network.
[4] Data from this weather station network can be viewed in a web browser, downloaded at text values in CSV format, downloaded in a condensed XML format for machine-to-machine communications, or downloaded as WDTF-compliant data.