Historical Heatwaves in Australia
Heatwaves are defined as unusually high temperature events that occur for at least three consecutive days with major impacts to human health, economy, agriculture and ecosystems. This dataset provides time-series of heatwave characteristics such as peak temperature, number of events, frequency and duration from 1950 to 2016 in Australia. The analysis were based on daily minimum and maximum temperature obtained from the Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP). The data is available as spatial time-series (5km grid-cell) and aggregated time-series for all Local Government Areas in Australia.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-08-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-09-02
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-16
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland - Trancoso, Ralph ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
Co-author
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland - Syktus, Jozef (Principal Research Fellow)
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
Co-author
Department of Environment and Science (2017-2023), Queensland Government - Toombs, Nathan ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Co-author
Department of Environment and Science (2017-2023), Queensland Government - Wong, Kenneth Koon-Ho ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The paper entitled "Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future" has been published in Science of the Total Environment describing the historical and projected changes in heatwaves characteristics. The "Historical Heatwaves in Australia" dataset accounts for the historical component and is released to provide access to researchers and stakeholders to information on the key heatwave characteristics during the 1950 to 2016 period. The dataset was derived following methodology adopted by the Bureau of Meteorology to assess and monitor heatwaves based on the Excess Heat Factor.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland - Trancoso, Ralph ()
Chancellors Place, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Chancellors Place
St Lucia
Queensland
4072
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Disaster
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Society
Extent
- Description
- Australia-wide (latitude = 112 - 154E; longitude = 10 - 44S)
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1950-01-01 2016-12-31
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Maximum value
- 0.0
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 3D
- Title
- Supplementary Information for "Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future"
- Website
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Supplementary Information for "Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future"
Related documentation
- Title
- Queensland Future Climate Website - Heatwaves Case Study
- Website
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Queensland Future Climate Website - Heatwaves Case Study
Related documentation
- Title
- Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future
- Website
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Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future
Related documentation
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Climate extremes; Extreme temperature; Extreme heat, Heat waves
- Climate change
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- Catalog view - Historical Heatwave Data
- OnLine resource
- Download Historical Heatwave Data - MS Excel format
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Statement
- Refer to the Australian Water Availability Project – AWAP for the details about the underlying dataset: https://web.archive.org/web/20200316041345/http://www.csiro.au/awap/
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Excess Heat Factor: We used observed daily surface temperature (minima and maxima) with 5 km spatial resolution for historical records (period 1950–2016) for the entire Australia obtained from the Australian Water Availability Project – AWAP. We explore the Excess Heat Factor (EHF) to measure and monitor heatwaves. In order to represent and quantify heatwave changes we explore a range of different characteristics of heatwaves such as peak temperature, number of events, frequency and duration following the approach adopted in previous heatwave studies. The heatwave characteristics are represented by four indices based on the EHF named: Heatwave peak temperature, Heatwave Number, Heatwave Frequency and Heatwave Duration. Other methodological details are described in the paper by Trancoso et al (2020): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720340432.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/be6dad2c-584c-4d5e-b557-8530526241b5
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/be6dad2c-584c-4d5e-b557-8530526241b5
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-08-20T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-12-16T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
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Spatial extent
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