400m resolution ACCESS limited-area simulation over Australia

Creators: Wales, Scott¹; Chun-Hsu, Su²; Franklin, Charmaine²; Jakob, Christian³; Jucker, Martin⁴; Lane, Todd⁵; Vincent, Claire⁵

1. Melbourne University
2. Bureau of Meteorology
3. Monash University
4. UNSW Sydney
5. University of Melbourne

Sponsor:: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

Description

Results from the Aus400 weather simulation, a very high resolution (400m grid spacing) simulation of the atmosphere over Australia during a 60 hour period covering the landfall of Tropical Cyclone Debbie.

The simulation is intended to provide insight into atmospheric processes at a wide range of scales, from continent-wide to sub-kilometer. The period was chosen to cover a range of weather events, including the tropical cyclone, a front system over the SE and a large storm over the NW.

Outputs include 2d variables at 10 minute resolution and 3d variables at 1 hour resolution, covering the full domain. Also included are the 2.2km grid spacing simulation used as an intermediate between BARRA reanalysis data and the target resolution, and a small ensemble of 2.2km grid spacing simulations covering the same period for statistical analysis.

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Preferred citation:

Wales, S., Chun-Hsu, S., Franklin, C., Jakob, C., Jucker, M., Lane, T., & Vincent, C. (2020). 400m resolution ACCESS limited-area simulation over Australia (v1.0) NCI Australia. (Dataset). https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/5f1e4e3e3de2e

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