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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)
2014-07-14
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/5f4f2c6e8b66c
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland - Trancoso, Ralph ()
Building 8, The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
St Lucia
QLD
4072
Australia

Co-author

School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland - Syktus, Jozef ()
Building 8, The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
St Lucia
QLD
4072
Australia

Co-author

Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government - Toombs, Nathan ()
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road Dutton Park QLD 4102 Australia
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia

Co-author

Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government - Wong, Kenneth Koon-Ho ()
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road Dutton Park QLD 4102 Australia
Dutton Park
QLD
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 ()
Building 8, The University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia
Building 8, The University of Queensland
St Lucia
QLD
4072
Australia
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Disaster
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Society

Extent

Description
Australia-wide (latitude = 112 - 154E; longitude = 10 - 44S)
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E
W


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
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
Queensland Future Climate Website - Heatwaves Case Study

Related documentation

Title
Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future
Website
Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future

Related documentation

GCMD Science Keywords
  • HEAT WAVE
  • EXTREME WEATHER
  • CLIMATE INDICATORS
  • TEMPERATURE INDICES
  • TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)
  • Natural Hazards
  • Climate Change Processes
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • Heatwave frequency
  • Percent
  • Heatwave duration
  • Day
  • Heatwave peak temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • Heatwaves per year
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • 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/
File name
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Catalog view - Historical Heatwave Data

OnLine resource
Download Historical Heatwave Data - MS Excel format

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
urn:uuid/be6dad2c-584c-4d5e-b557-8530526241b5

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
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)
2020-08-20T00:00:00

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

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Climate Change Processes Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) Natural Hazards
GCMD Science Keywords
CLIMATE INDICATORS EXTREME WEATHER HEAT WAVE TEMPERATURE INDICES TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY

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