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Australian fire risk study

time series
All time series are averaged over the South-East Australia bush fire region, land points in (155,-29) (150,-29) (144,-40) (155,-40). We also made scripts that compute all numbers in the paper: heat, annual drought, annual drought up to 2100, driest month in SONDJF, FWI SONDJF max, MSR SONDJF max

Area burned
Monthly: MODIS 1997-2018.

FWI ERA5 monthly mean 1997-2018, data for Fig 2
Monthly: FWI ERA5 1997-2018.

Heat (observations unreliable before 1910)
Monthly: GISTEMP T2m, Berkeley T2m, Berkeley Tmax.
Daily fields: Berkeley Tmax.
Annual time series: Berkeley Tmax, ACORN stations Tmax, AWAP Tmax, ERA5 Tmax, 20CRv3 Tmax, ERA-20C Tmax, CERA-20C Tmax, JRA55 Tmax, EC-Earth T159 Tmax, HadGEM3-A N219 Tmax, CanESM2 Tmax, CESM1-CAM5 Tmax, GFDL-ESM2M Tmax, IPSL Tmax 7day rm Jul-Jun, ASF-20C Tmax 7day DJF. WAH Tmax 7day rm Sep-Feb Actual, WAH Tmax 7day rm Sep-Feb Natural,

Drought
Monthly: GPCC pr, CRU TS pr, AWAP pr, EC-Earth pr, HadGEM3-A pr, IPSL pr. WAH pr actual, WAH pr natural.
Annual mean: CanESM2 pr, CESM1-CAM5 pr, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 pr, GFDL-CM3 pr, GFDL-ESM2M pr, MPI-ESM pr.
Driest month in SONDJF: CanESM2 pr, CESM1-CAM5 pr, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 pr, GFDL-CM3 pr, GFDL-ESM2M pr, MPI-ESM pr.

Fire Weather Index
ERA5: ERA5 annual seasonal maximum NSW, ERA5 MSR monthly NSW, ERA5 MSR yearly NSW.
MODELS FWI: CESM annual seasonal maximum FWI, EC-Earth annual seasonal maximum FWI, CanESM2 annual seasonal maximum FWI, IPSL annual seasonal maximum FWI, WAH annual seasonal maximum FWI Actual, WAH annual seasonal maximum FWI Natural,
MODELS MSR: CESM annual seasonal maximum MSR, EC-Earth annual seasonal maximum MSR, CanESM2 annual seasonal maximum MSR, IPSL annual seasonal maximum MSR, W@H annual seasonal maximum MSR natural, W@H annual seasonal maximum MSR actual,

Octher potential drivers
IOD: ERSSTv5 obs, EC-Earth, CanESM2, CESM1-CAM5, CSIRO Mk3.6.0, GFDL CM3, GFDL ESM2M, MPI ESM.
Nino3.4: relative to 20S-20N: ERSSTv5 obs, EC-Earth, wrt ensemble mean: CanESM2, CESM1-CAM5, CSIRO Mk3.6.0, GFDL-CM3, GFDL-ESM2M, MPI-ESM.
IOD-Nino3.4r: ERSSTv5 obs, EC-Earth,
SAM: BAS, NCEPNCAR R1, ERA5, EC-Earth, HadGEM3A, CanESM2, CESM1-CAM5, CSIRO Mk3.6.0, GFDL-CM3, GFDL-ESM2M, MPI-ESM.
Ozone hole: lost ozone

GMST timeseries
CESM annual GMST, ECEarth annual GMST, IPSL annual GMST, CanESM2 annual GMST, GFDL-CM3 annual GMST, GFDL-ESM2M annual GMST, MPI-ESM annual GMST, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0 annual GMST.

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