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 ECHAM 5 model and the IPCC A2 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-a2-scenario/15225; http://www.acecrc.org.au/Research/Climate%20Futures

Output of downscaling the ECHAM 5 General Circulation Model (GCM) simulation with the A2 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 CSIRO ECHAM 5 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).