Climate Futures for Tasmania: decadal means of the bias-adjusted output of the simulation of the Cubic Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM) over Tasmania

Brief description

Output of downscaling various general circulation models (GCMs) simulations using the A2 and B1 SRES emissions scenario using the Cubic Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM) over Tasmania, bias adjusted against current climate. Decadal averages are aggregated in a single virtual file for each experiment over the 140 years of simulation. The configuration of CCAM used is a 48x48 cells per face, with the high resolution face centered over Tasmania. The model takes the sea surface temperatures output from the GCM as boundary conditions into CCAM and uses spectral diffusion from the 60km version of CCAM run in conjunction with this model. This configuration provides an approximate resolution of 14km in the high resolution face. The output is processed on to a 0.1 degree grid covering the region 142 to 150 degrees East and 38 to 45 degrees South, encompassing mainland Tasmania, Flinders and King Island. 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. The GCM data used as forcing was downloaded from The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI).