Climate Futures for Tasmania: output of the 60 km resolution simulation of the Cubic Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM) over Tasmania, using the ECHAM5 model and the IPCC B1 scenario

Brief description

Output of downscaling the ECHAM 5 General Circulation Model (GCM) simulation with the B1 SRES emissions scenario using the Cubic Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM). The configuration of CCAM being used is a 64x64 cells per face, with the high resolution face centered over Australia. The model takes the sea surface temperatures output from the ECHAM 5 GCM as boundary conditions into CCAM. This configuration provides an approximate resolution of 60km in the high resolution face. The output is processed on to a 0.5 degree grid covering the region 125 - 170 degrees East and 25 to 50 degrees South, encompassing all of south-east Australia (extending over South Australia, Tasmania and the south-west tip of New Zealand). Data is output 6 hourly and includes all CCAM variables among which: air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, runoff, soil moisture, cloud coverage, radiation, evaporation and wind speed. The modelling output covers the time period 01/01/1961 up to 31/12/2100. This model simulation was designed to allow downscaling to a high resolution (0.1 degree) version of CCAM centered over Tasmania. The GCM data used as forcing was downloaded from The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI).