Journal article
Future australian severe thunderstorm environments. Part I: A novel evaluation and climatology of convective parameters from two climate models for the late twentieth century
JT Allen, DJ Karoly, KJ Walsh
Journal of Climate | Published : 2014
Abstract
The influence of a warming climate on the occurrence of severe thunderstorms over Australia is, as yet, poorly understood. Based on methods used in the development of a climatology of observed severe thunderstorm environments over the continent, two climate models [Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Mark, version 3.6 (CSIRO Mk3.6) and the Cubic-Conformal Atmospheric Model (CCAM)] have been used to produce simulated climatologies of ingredients and environments favorable to severe thunderstorms for the late twentieth century (1980-2000). A novel evaluation of these model climatologies against data from both the ECMWF Interim Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim) and reports of s..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
Awarded by Office of Naval Research
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the ECMWF for providing the reanalysis data used in this study. We are also grateful to CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, including the CSIRO Mk3.6 modelling group and J. Katzfey for providing access to the CCAM data. We thank the three anonymous reviewers, whose contributions assisted in improving the manuscript. This research was supported in part by funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (Grant CE110001028) and the NCI National Facility at the ANU. The Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-12-1-0911) and a Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award also supported the writing of this paper.