BARRA 12km resolution over Australia, New-Zealand and the maritime continent ( Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric high-resolution Regional Reanalysis for Australia) ( 1990 - Feb. 2019 )

• Main Author: Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Bureau of Meteorology 2019
• Subjects: Climate Reanalyses/Assimilation Models; Antarctic; Barra; New Zealand; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25941/5d47da36a409d; http://www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900566

The Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric high-resolution Regional Reanalysis for Australia (BARRA) is a high-resolution multi-decadal atmospheric reanalysis. The reanalysis provides information about surface conditions (such as temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, humidity, evaporation and soil moisture), information at pressure and model levels, and information on solar radiation and cloud cover. The reanalysis suite is based on the Australian Community Climate Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS) and extends 70 levels (up to 80 km) into the atmosphere. It is nested within the required boundary and/or initial conditions provided by ERA-Interim reanalysis, Operational SST and Sea Ice Analysis, and the Bureau offline soil moisture reanalysis. The region covered by the reanalysis is the Australian continent, and the surrounding region including parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and south to the ice edge of the Antarctic continent. About 100 parameters are available at hourly time steps at approximately 12-km resolution, in this dataset. For a small number of subdomains (South-West W.A., S.A., Eastern N.S.W., and Tasmania), dynamically downscaled analyses at a 1.5-km resolution are available separately.