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Droughts have been extensively studied by Australian weather and climate researchers for over a century: what causes droughts, how they end, why some last for many years while other don’t, and what climate change is doing to their severity and intensity. We stand on this mountain of existing knowledge and make use of newly recovered weather observations as well as state of the art datasets to examine how the objective identification of droughts relates to cultural and social experiences. 

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Rainfall during 1902 in four regions

These maps shows seasonal rainfall difference – summer, autumn, winter, spring – in each region during 1902, the most severe year of the Federation Drought. ...
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Story: Animating Victoria’s rainfall history

This animated map shows the rainfall patterns over Victoria from 1880 to 2019 using a detailed dataset from the Bureau of Meteorology. The maps don’t ...
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Seasonal rainfall deficits in Bendigo during the Federation Drought

Story: This plot shows rainfall variability in each season in Bendigo during the Federation Drought (1895–1903). The rainfall amounts have had the average for each ...
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