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Description: Monthly drought data for Australia 1890-2008 using the Hutchinson Drought Index. The algorithm used to calculate the drought index using the Hutchinson method implemented as SQL and PostGIS is stored in the Github repository at https://github.com/swish-climate-impact-assessment/DROUGHT-BOM-GRIDS. (A new version implemented in R code is available in the https://github.com/ivanhanigan/HutchinsonDroughtIndex package). These are published as Hanigan, Ivan (2012): Monthly drought data for Australia 1890-2008 using the Hutchinson Drought Index. Australian National University Data Commons [anudc:3313]. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/13/50BBFD7E6727A This dataset is available to download from the following servers: the ANU GIS forum geoserver http://gislibrary-geo.anu.edu.au:8081/dashboard and also published on Open Science Framework (OSF) at https://osf.io/np5xd/.