AUS2200 Unified Model atmospheric simulation of the June 2016 East Coast Low pressure system and heavy rain over the East Coast of Australia, at 2.2km resolution: fixed sea surface temperature experiment

Brief description

This record was harvested by RDA at 2025-07-25T16:34:26.99107+10:00 from NCI's Data Catalogue where it was last modified at 2024-04-01.

Full description

AUS2200 simulation using the Unified Model (UM) to simulate the East Coast Low event which gave rise to widespread flooding in many areas stretching from southeast Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern Victoria, and large areas of northern Tasmania. This simulation (“Fixed”) is the first in a series of AUS2200 experiments that investigate the role of sea-surface temperatures in the development of a subtropical cyclone and widespread heavy rain over east coast Australia in early June 2016. The simulation period is 03-07 June 2016. This simulation is run using the UM v12.2, forcing are the ECMWF ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis fields. For this case the 0000 UTC 3 June ERA5 sea-surface temperatures were kept constant throughout the simulation. Prior to the event, the area-averaged sea-surface temperatures were at record levels across both the Tasman and Coral Seas. The output was post-processed using the ACCESS-MOPPeR tool v1.1 (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13841181) following wherever possible the CMIP6 conventions.

Credit

This data is supported by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), with access to resources provided through the ACCESS-NRI Merit Allocation Scheme and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

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This dataset is an output of the research program - CLEX Weather and Climate Interactions