High-Resolution Modelling of Extreme Storms over the East Coast of Australia v1.0 This dataset includes data of 11 extreme East Coast Lows simulated using a multi-physics (5), multi-resolution (3) approach for 4 different boundary conditions, leading to a total of 660 simulations. All simulations were performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF v3.6) regional model using a triple nesting approach with different domain sizes. The outer domain corresponds to the CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) Australasia domain and is discretized using a 24-km horizontal grid spacing. ECMWF ERA Interim (ERAI) reanalysis are use to initialize and drive the model for present climate simulations. For future climate simulations, the Pseudo Global Warming (PGW) approach is used. In this case, initial and boundary conditions are built by adding the climate change signal obtained from a global climate multi-model ensemble from the CMIP5. We selected a total of eleven events featuring an extreme east coast low over the eastern coast of Australia. Events were selected based on their impacts around the Sydney area and the selection includes some of the most iconic events in recent times such as the "Pasha Bulker" (June 2007) and the June 2016 storms. All events were simulated for a total of 8 days, starting about 4 days before the storm peaked near the Sydney's area. A full list of events dates is given below. Events: 2007-06-04 to 2007-06-12 2007-06-13 to 2007-06-21 2007-06-22 to 2007-06-30 2001-07-23 to 2001-07-31 2005-03-18 to 2005-03-26 2008-09-02 to 2008-9-10 2015-04-18 to 2015-04-26 2008-08-18 to 2008-08-26 2013-02-17 to 2013-02-25 2016-06-01 to 2016-06-09 2006-09-03 to 2006-09-11 Boundary conditions: HIST - (ERAI) reanalysis is used as lateral and surface (SST) boundary conditions for present climate simulations HIST-BRAN - (ERAI) reanalysis is used as lateral boundary conditions and BRAN for surface (SST), for present climate simulations FUT - initial and boundary conditions are built by adding the climate change signal from the CMIP5 RCP8.5 scenario climate multi-model ensemble to ERAI. FUT-THERMO - initial and boundary conditions are built by adding the climate change signal from the CMIP5 climate multi-model ensemble to ERAI, but only to thermodynamical variables (temperature and humidity) Physics: There is one control run (CTL) and four perturbed physics members that include modifications in the cumulus (CU), the surface and planetary boundary layer (PBL), the radiation (RAD) and the microphysics (MPS) schemes. Members are denoted according to the physical scheme that is being changed compared to the CTL run. Table summary for physics Name | CTL | CU | PBL | RAD | MPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- cumulus | BMJ (2) | KF (1) | BMJ (2) | BMJ (2) | BMJ (2) S/PBL | YSU (1) | YSU (1) | MYJ (2) | YSU (1) | YSU (1) shortwave rad. | RRTM (2) | RRTM (2) | RRTM (2) | CAM (3) | RRTM (2) longwave rad. | Dudhia (1)| Dudhia (1)| Dudhia (1)| CAM (3) | Dudhia (1) microphysics | WSM6 (6) | WSM6 (6) | WSM6 (6) | WSM6 (6) | Thomp. (8) Numbers after each of the schemes denote the code used in the WRF namelist. MYJ [9]; YSU [8]; KF [12, 11]; BMJ [1, 9, 10]; WSM6 [14]; Dudhia [6], RRTM [15]; CAM [4]. The final data product is the post-processing files of all simulations made following CORDEX standards. Names and units of the variables that are available after post-processing. The frequency and the level is also included. Pressure levels are 200, 500, 700, 850 and 925 hPa. Surface level variables at 1 hr frequency: prm - precipitation rate (mm) 2m surface variables at 1 hr frequency: tas - temperature (K) Surface level variables at 3 hrs frequency:    psl - mean sea level pressure (hPa) Near-surface level variables at 3 hrs frequency: cape2d - Convective Available Potential Energy - CAPE (J kg-1) tpw - total precipitable water (mm) 2m surface variables at 3 hrs frequency: hus - specic humidity (%) hurs relative humidity (%) 10m surface variables at 3 hrs frequency: uas - zonal wind (m s-1) vas - meridional wind (m s-1) Pressure level variables at 6 hrs frequency: ta - temperature (K) ua - zonal wind (m s-1) va - meridional wind (m s-1) wa - vertical wind (m s-1) zg - gepotential height (m) hus - specic humidity (kg kg-1) This dataset was created by Dr Alejandro Di Luca as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funded project (DE170101191) and is part of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) Extreme Rainfall research program. The data is available online on the NCI TDS server: https://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/catalogs/ks32/CLEX/HiRes-MESECA/HiRes-MESECA.html and for NCI users in the ks32 project. File organisation: /g/data/ks32/CLEX_Data/HiRes-MESECA/v1-0/////// where is WRF24, WRF8 and WRF2 for horizontal grid resolution of 24 km, 8 km and 2 km, respectively is the starting date of each event are FUT, FUT-THERMO, HIST and HIST-BRAN are CONTROL, CU, MPS, PBL and RAD are 6hr, 3hr, 1hr filenames: _HiRes-MESECA_UNSW-WRF360-i1______v1-0.nc Example: va200_HiRes-MESECA_UNSW-WRF360-i1_WRF2_2001-07-23_FUT_CTL_6hr_v1-0.nc Author: · Alejandro Di Luca: designed and performed calculations to generate historical and pseudo-global warming boundary conditions; conceived, designed and performed all simulations; coded and run postprocessing scripts. Contributors: · Daniel Argueso (d.argueso@uib.es): designed and performed calculations to generate historical and pseudo-global warming boundary conditions; coded postprocessing scripts. · Nicolas Jourdain (nicolas.jourdain@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr): designed and performed calculations to generate pseudo-global warming boundary conditions. · Jason Evans (jason.evans@unsw.edu.au): installed and setup the model in the NCI supercomputer, helped on the design and performance of simulations. Contact: di_luca.alejandro@uqam.ca for any question on the dataset content and provenance paola.petrelli@utas.edu.au for questions or issues with file accessibility Citation: Di Luca, Alejandro, Argueso, D., Jourdain, N., Evans, J., 2021. High-Resolution Modelling of Extreme Storms over the East Coast of Australia v1.0. NCI National Research Data Collection, doi:10.25914/604eb7628b4e7