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

Monthly growing degree days above 0 degrees Celsius - GDD0 for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0.

To support spatially distributed dynamic modelling of land surface processes, incorporating principal climate controls on plant growth and water resources, and to provide a baseline for the assessment of the impacts of projected climate change, a large number of bioclimate indices have been generated using the eMAST R-package 2.0. The bioclimatic surfaces are based on national grids of daily and monthly temperature, precipitation, radiation and vapour pressure.

Annual radiation of warmest month for the Australian continent. Modelled by using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5 to fit trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation. Station elevations were 0.05 degree local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3 as provided by eMAST_ANUClimate_fx_el05_v1m0.

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

Annual radiation seasonality (coefficient of variation) for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0.

Annual lowest period radiation for each 0.01 degree grid cell of the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0.

Annual mean of the mean temperature of wettest quarter for the Australian continent for the baseline climatic average of monthly 1976-2005 data. 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

Monthly growing degree days above 5 degrees Celsius - GDD5 for the Australian continent. Modelled using eMAST-R-Package 2.0.

Annual radiation 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