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Tasmanian Heat and Cold Wave Forecast

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This dataset is a daily raster of 3-day forecast heat- and cold-wave forecast for the state of Tasmania, based on the EHF (Extreme Heat Factor) calculation (Nairn & Fawcett 2009). The data is updated daily at 12:00 noon and displays forecast heatwave conditions for the following three days in seven categories (severe, extreme and normal cold wave, no warning, and severe, extreme and normal heat wave). Nairn J, Fawcett R (2013) Defining heatwaves: heatwave defined as a heat-impact event servicing all community and business sectors in Australia. CAWCR Technical Report No. 060. Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research.

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Title Tasmanian Heat and Cold Wave Forecast
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a1ddfb4d-9db4-4408-9bb6-53112717b246
Contact Point
Tasmania Government's The List Data
enquiries@plant.utas.edu.au
Reference Period 09/03/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
Data Portal Tasmania TheList

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Tasmania TheList "Tasmanian Heat and Cold Wave Forecast". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.thelist.tas.gov.au/datagn/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tasmanian-heat-and-cold-wave-forecast