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Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the support and funding from the
following agencies: the Tasmania Fire Service, NSW Rural Fire
Service, Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency
Services, South Australian Country Fire Service and the
Government of South Australia Department of Environment,
Water and Natural Resources. We are continuing to work with
these agencies to analyse weather during and leading up to
historical extreme events.
We would also like to acknowledge support from many
colleagues in the Earth System Modelling group at the Bureau of
Meteorology and our research collaborators, the UK Met Office,
the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
(NIWA), New Zealand and NCI.
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