AusEnHealth Catalogue
AusEnHealth Excess Heat Factor Indicators
Regional extreme-heat indicators derived from Bureau of Meteorology Australian Gridded Climate Data daily mean temperature and the Bureau of Meteorology Excess Heat Factor method. Daily gridded classifications are coverage-weighted to 2021 ABS Boundaries using the BOM 10% district rule, then summarised to monthly and completed calendar-year products. The dataset comprises two products. Grids: the daily EHF and severity grids as annual Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) stacks with one band per day. Tables: long-format Parquet with columns region (ABS boundary code), date (period start) and obs_value, one file per indicator variable, hive-partitioned by variable (ehf_hot, ehf_low, ehf_severe, ehf_extreme, ehf_total, ehf_events, ehf_duration), region_type (sa1, sa2, sa3, sa4, gcc, lga), edition (the boundary code set, asgs2021 or lga2021), period (P1M, P1Y) and year. Geometries are not included in the tables, but can be obtained from the corresponding ASGS boundary files.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2026-10-06T00:46:53Z
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-10-06
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Point of contact AusEnHealth
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.05 deg
- Temporal resolution
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P1M
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Health
Extent
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- Geographic identifier
- National
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01 2025-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Monthly
- Keywords
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excess heat factor
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heatwave
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hot days
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temperature
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australia
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- Theme
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Hot days
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Low-intensity heatwave days
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Severe heatwave days
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Extreme heatwave days
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Heatwave days of any intensity
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Heatwave events
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Mean heatwave event duration
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Excess Heat Factor
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Excess Heat Factor severity
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Dataset language
- English
- Country
- AUS
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Attribute description
- Dataset variables
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
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ehf_hot
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Days on which at least 10 per cent of the region's valid area had daily mean temperature (DMT) above the 1971-2000 95th percentile (DMT95). Scored independently of the heatwave classes and not part of ehf_total.
- Name
- Hot days
- Maximum value
- 207.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf_low
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Days on which at least 10 per cent of the region's valid area had positive Excess Heat Factor (EHF) severity, where the severe and extreme thresholds were not met.
- Name
- Low-intensity heatwave days
- Maximum value
- 188.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf_severe
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Days on which at least 10 per cent of the region's valid area had EHF severity of at least 1, where the extreme threshold was not met.
- Name
- Severe heatwave days
- Maximum value
- 43.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf_extreme
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Days on which at least 10 per cent of the region's valid area had EHF severity of at least 3.
- Name
- Extreme heatwave days
- Maximum value
- 14.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf_total
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Sum of the low-intensity, severe and extreme heatwave days.
- Name
- Heatwave days of any intensity
- Maximum value
- 212.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf_events
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Number of consecutive runs of low-intensity, severe or extreme heatwave days. An event crossing a period boundary counts in both periods, so monthly counts do not sum to the annual count.
- Name
- Heatwave events
- Maximum value
- 28.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- {events}
- Name
- events
- Name
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ehf_duration
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Heatwave days of any intensity divided by the number of heatwave events, with an event crossing a period boundary split at the boundary. Zero when there are no events.
- Name
- Mean heatwave event duration
- Maximum value
- 45.0
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- d
- Name
- day
- Name
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ehf
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Daily gridded EHF, dated to the first day of the forward three-day window: the three-day mean DMT above DMT95, multiplied by the larger of 1 and the three-day mean DMT above the preceding 30-day mean.
- Name
- Excess Heat Factor
- Maximum value
- 150.035446
- Minimum value
- -129.041718
- Identifier
- Cel2
- Name
- degree Celsius squared
- Name
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ehf_severity
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Daily gridded EHF divided by the 1958-2016 EHF 85th percentile (EHF85). Values above 0, from 1 and from 3 mark low-intensity, severe and extreme heatwave conditions.
- Name
- Excess Heat Factor severity
- Maximum value
- 13.841331
- Minimum value
- -27.01609
- Identifier
- 1
- Name
- dimensionless
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF
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Parquet
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Grids directory (52 GeoTIFF files)
- OnLine resource
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Tables directory (2184 Parquet files)
- Statement
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Derived from: ABS ASGS ABS Structures, ABS ASGS Non ABS Structures, BOM AGCD Climate Data.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Monthly
- Maintenance note
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This metadata record was generated by pygeometa-0.21.1 ( https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa)
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 0c8647a0-aed7-5561-9e55-2bd953f3dbe2
- Language
- en
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Custodian AusEnHealth
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-10-06T00:46:53Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-10-09T00:06:43.298598Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014 Geographic information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals
- Edition
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ISO 19115-1:2014/Amd 1:2018
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