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Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility - CCAM regional climate model dataset, North Eastern Australia 1971-2000

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Regional Climate Model dataset for North Eastern Australia for the years 1971-2000. Created with the CSIRO CCAM (Cubic Conformal Amostpheric Model) RCM (Regional Climate Model) by dynamically downscaling CSIRO Mk3 Global Climate Model output to 15 km resolution over a target area centred on 17S, 145E for the Marine and Tropical Science Research Facility (MTSRF) project. 30 years of Mk3 output was used as the host model (nested in MK3.0), with greenhouse emissions corresponding to 1971 to 2000(M20th). Daily and Monthly Atmospheric variables are available between Lat:-20N -10N(.1 deg res) & Lon:140E 150E(.1 deg res), at 5 levels (1000, 850, 700, 500, 300 hPa), 15Km resolution(C48 grid), 18 vertical levels with . There are 386 Daily files totalling 76.6GB, 359 Monthly_mean files totalling 2.62GB and 359 Raw cubic conformal model output files totaling 75GB with all being in netcdf format. This dataset was also used to verify CCAM's effectiveness and accuracy in regional climate modeling through the comparison of the average simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and rainfall with the observed climatology made by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) for the months of January, April, July and October. Available for internal use and analysis by CSIRO staff on the HPSC cherax.

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Progress Code: planned
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Daily & Monthly atmospheric variables on a conventional Lat Lon grid processed from the CCAM model cubic conformal raw output data files.

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MTRSF - Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility, CSIRO
Credit
Marcus Thatcher
Credit
J. McGregor and K. Nguyen

Data time period: 1971-01-01 to 2000-12-31

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Countries | Australia | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Aerosols | Aerosol Backscatter | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Anticyclones/Cyclones | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Atmospheric Pressure Measurements | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Sea Level Pressure | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Radiation | Atmospheric Heating | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Radiation | Incoming Solar Radiation | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Radiation | Longwave Radiation | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Radiation | Radiative Flux | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Radiation | Radiative Forcing | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Air Temperature | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Boundary Layer Temperature | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Maximum/Minimum Temperature | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Surface Air Temperature | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Water Vapor | Humidity | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Water Vapor | Precipitable Water | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Upper Level Winds | Earth Science | Atmosphere | Clouds | Cloud Radiative Transfer | Cloud Radiative Forcing | Earth Science | Cryosphere | Sea Ice | Heat Flux | Earth Science | Land Surface | Land Temperature | Land Surface Temperature | Earth Science | Land Surface | Surface Radiative Properties | Thermal Properties | Earth Science | Oceans | Sea Ice | Heat Flux | Model Run: 20C3M | Model: CSIRO CCAM RCM | climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere |

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  • Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306008176
  • Local : Marlin Record Number: 8176
  • global : 74ca6573-6524-4f1b-ac2e-c8dc029721b8