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 GFDL 2.1 model and the IPCC A2 scenario

• Other Authors: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (isOwnedBy), Dr Stuart Corney (hasCollector), Dr Michael Grose (isManagedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Subjects: Climate Change Processes; EARTH SCIENCES; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; Atmospheric Dynamics; 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/15272; http://www.acecrc.org.au/Research/Climate%20Futures

Output of downscaling the GFDL 2.1 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 GFDL 2.1 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).