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Historical Heatwaves in Australia

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Created 20/10/2024

Updated 21/01/2025

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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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Title Historical Heatwaves in Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/da1b8652-4021-4a40-b2f1-4be5d8358bf1
Contact Point
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria
r.trancoso@uq.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1950 - 31/12/2016
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal Data.gov.au