Climate Futures for Tasmania: output on pressure levels of the 60 km resolution simulation of the Cubic Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM) over Tasmania, using the MIROC 3.2 model and the IPCC B1 scenario

• Other Authors: Dr Stuart Corney (hasCollector), Dr Michael Grose (isManagedBy), Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Subjects: Atmospheric Dynamics; EARTH SCIENCES; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; Climate Change Processes; Surfacewater Hydrology; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE; Soil Physics; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; SOIL SCIENCES; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/climate-futures-tasmania-b1-scenario/15199; http://www.acecrc.org.au/Research/Climate%20Futures

Output of downscaling the MIROC 3.2 (medres) 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 MIROC 3.2 (medres) GCM as boundary conditions into CCAM. This configuration provides an approximate resolution of 60km in the high resolution face. Output on pressure levels for a region covering the Australian continent, Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean. 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).