Proportionof the Australian Economic Zone experiencing record high sea surface temperatures 1981-2016. Includes three month running mean. Extreme SSTs calculated by comparing monthly SSTs with all other recorded monthly SSTs in the time series at a particular grid point. If the SST was higher than all other SSTs recorded for that grid point during that month, it was considered an extreme event.were Data used to re-create graph Figure MAR6 in Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment Report. See;
https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/marine-environment/topic/2016/climate-change#marine-environment-figure-6
Data derived by CSIRO - metadata also at http://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=cca8c5ce-4b21-406d-b20c-7b333f8e605c