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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Date ( Creation )
2020-08-20T00:00:00
Date ( Publication )
2020-08-28T00:00:00
Date ( Revision )
2020-08-20T00:00:00
Edition
1.0.0 
Citation identifier
http://dx.doi.org / doi: 10.25901/5f4f2c6e8b66c

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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. 
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Completed  

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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Society
Description
Australia-wide (latitude = 112 - 154E; longitude = 10 - 44S) 
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Time period
1950-01-012016-12-31 
  • Heatwave frequency ,
  • Percent ,
  • Heatwave duration ,
  • Day ,
  • Heatwave peak temperature ,
  • Degree Celsius ,
  • Heatwaves per year ,
  • Unitless ,
GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
  • HEAT WAVE ,
  • EXTREME WEATHER ,
  • CLIMATE INDICATORS ,
  • TEMPERATURE INDICES ,
  • TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY
Temporal Resolution
  • Annual
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) ,
  • Natural Hazards ,
  • Climate Change Processes
  • Climate extremes; Extreme temperature; Extreme heat; Heat waves,
  • Climate change
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence 
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CC-BY 
Edition
4.0 
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License  
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Australian Government Security Classification System 
Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00  
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Classification
Unclassified  
Handling description
OFFICIAL (Australian Government Security Classification System) 
Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  
Distribution format
  • NetCDF, Microsoft Excel

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Catalog view - Historical Heatwave Data

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Download Historical Heatwave Data - MS Excel format

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Supplementary Information for "Heatwaves intensification in Australia: A consistent trajectory across past, present and future"

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Queensland Future Climate Website - Heatwaves Case Study

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

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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/ 

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

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Date info ( Creation )
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Date info ( Revision )
2020-09-02T06:40:51
Title
ISO 19115.1:2015 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals 
Edition
1.0 
Title
ISO 19115-3:2016 
Edition
1.0 

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