Journal article
Linear rainfall features and their association with rainfall extremes near Melbourne, Australia
SM Hitchcock, TP Lane, RA Warren, JS Soderholm
Monthly Weather Review | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2021
Abstract
Linear precipitation systems are a prominent contributor to rainfall over Melbourne, Australia, and the surrounding region. These systems are often convective in nature, frequently associated with cold fronts, and in some cases can lead to significant rainfall and flash flooding. Various types of linearly organized systems (e.g., squall lines, quasi-linear convective systems) have been the subject of much research in the United States and elsewhere, but thus far relatively little analysis has been done on linear systems in Australia. To begin to understand rainfall extremes and how they may change in this region in the future, it is useful to explore the contribution of these types of system..
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Thanks to three anonymous reviewers and Editor Angela Rowe for their time and helpful suggestions. Thanks to Jordan Brook and Ewan Short for sharing their methods of TINT modification and bug fixes, to Andrew King and Christian Jakob for helpful discussions, and to the Mesoscale and CLEX Extreme RainfallD groups for feedback and support. Thanks also to the CLEX administration and Computational Modeling Systems teams, especially Scott Wales for their assistance and support. This work is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and also benefited from computing provided by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) facility.