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Historical Heatwaves in Australia

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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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://data.gov.au/data/dataset/86fc7eab-8017-41a3-96d0-425dcd06b6c9
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
r.trancoso@uq.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/1950 - 31/12/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Historical Heatwaves in Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/historical-heatwaves-in-australia