Tag Archive: 1888

Research brief: Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought

January 12, 2021 11:27 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought

To shed more light on short droughts of the past, CLEX researchers took advantage of a newly released dataset from the Bureau of Meteorology to re-examine the infamous Centennial Drought of 1888. Using the new dataset along with historical station data, they analysed monthly rainfall variability across south eastern Australia throughout 1888.

UniMelb01: Australia’s Centennial Drought

May 3, 2019 1:00 am Published by Comments Off on UniMelb01: Australia’s Centennial Drought

This project aims to learn more about the 1888 Centennial Drought using palaeoclimate information, documentary records, station based data and gridded datasets.