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Model experiment description paper
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12 Jul 2021
Model experiment description paper |
| 12 Jul 2021
| 12 Jul 2021
BARRA v1.0: kilometre-scale downscaling of an Australian regional atmospheric reanalysis over four midlatitude domains
Chun-Hsu Su
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia
Nathan Eizenberg
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
Dörte Jakob
Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia
Paul Fox-Hughes
Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia
Peter Steinle
Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia
Christopher J. White
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Charmaine Franklin
Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia
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Short summary
The Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric Regional Reanalysis for Australia (BARRA) has produced a very high-resolution reconstruction of Australian historical weather from 1990 to 2018. This paper demonstrates the added weather and climate information to supplement coarse- or moderate-resolution regional and global reanalyses. The new climate data can allow greater understanding of past weather, including extreme events, at very local kilometre scales.
The Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric Regional Reanalysis for Australia (BARRA) has produced a...
