Journal article
Long-Term Observational Characteristics of Different Severe Convective Wind Types around Australia
Andrew Brown, Andrew Dowdy, Todd P Lane, Stacey Hitchcock
Weather and Forecasting | American Meteorological Society | Published : 2023
Abstract
Regional understanding of severe surface winds produced by convective processes [severe convective winds (SCWs)] is important for decision-making in several areas of society, including weather forecasting and engineering design. Meteorological studies have demonstrated that SCWs can occur due to a number of different mesoscale and microscale processes, in a range of large-scale atmospheric environments. However, long-term observational studies of SCW characteristics often have not considered this diversity in physical processes, particularly in Australia. Here, a statistical clustering method is used to separate a large dataset of SCW events, measured by automatic weather stations around Aus..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council 's (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Awarded by ARC Discovery Program
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Funding Acknowledgements
AB and TL are supported by the Australian Research Council 's (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) . SH is supported by the ARC Discovery Program (Project DP200102516) . AD is supported by the National Environmental Science Program. Comments on earlier versions of this manuscript by Rob Taggart and Callum Stuart are gratefully acknowledged, as well as comments from three anonymous reviewers. Processing and tracking of radar data were made possible by various Python software, including tobac (Heikenfeld et al. 2019) , TINT (Raut et al. 2021) , and scipy (Virtanen et al. 2020) . Processing of environmental diagnostics was made possible by various Python software, including MetPy (May et al. 2019) , wrfpython (Ladwig 2017) , and SkewT (https://pypi.org/project/SkewT/) . We acknowledge computational support and resources from the National Computational Infrastructure.