Precipitation of warmest quarter for the Australian continent. Warmest quarter is the set of 3 consecutive months for which the mean temperature over the selected period is higher than any other set of 3 consecutive months. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Annual mean temperature for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) locally averaged to 0.05 degree resolution and resampled to 0.01 degree resolution. This is used to support spatial modelling of precipitation and related surface processes that have a coarser resolution interaction with surface topography (Sharples et al. 2005). Derived by calculating a 0.05 degree DEM consisting of 0.05 degree local averages of values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3 (Hutchinson et al. 2008). These 0.05 degree grid values were then smoothly resampled to 0.01 degree resolution using biquadratic spline interpolation.

Annual precipitation for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Maximum temperature of warmest month for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0.

Precipitation of coldest quarter for the Australian continent. Mean temperature of coldest quarter for the Australian continent. Coldest quarter is the set of 3 consecutive months for which the mean temperature over the selected period is lower than any other set of 3 consecutive months. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Annual mean diurnal range for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Precipitation of driest month for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Mean temperature of wettest quarter for the Australian continent. Wettest Quarter is the set of 3 consecutive months for which the sum of all precipitation over the selected period is higher than any other set of 3 consecutive months. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0

Annual mean diurnal range for the Australian continent for the baseline climatic average of monthly 1976-2005 data. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0