9s climatology for continental Australia 1976-2005: Summary variables with elevation and radiative adjustment

Collection Title:

9s climatology for continental Australia 1976-2005: Summary variables with elevation and radiative adjustment

Collection Description:

A suite of 9s resolution climate surfaces for the Australian continent, with adjustment for the radiative effects of terrain. This collection represents a 30 year average centred on 1990. Precipitation, temperature, evaporation and water balance data are presented as annual means or totals and maximum and minimum monthly values. Data are provided ... moreas zipped ESRI float grids: Binary float grids (*.flt) with associated ESRI header files (*.hdr) and projection files (*.prj). After extracting from the zip archive, these files can be imported into most GIS software packages, and can be used as other binary file formats by substituting the appropriate header file. Additionally a short methods summary is provided in the file 9sClimateMethodsSummary.pdf for further information, including a nomenclature for files. less

Field of Research:

Climate Change Processes ;  Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4225/08/5afa9f7d1a552

Start Date:

01 Jan 1976

End Date:

31 Dec 2005

Contact:Tom Harwood
 Tom.Harwood@csiro.au
Keywords:

climate ;  temperature ;  evaporation ;  terrain

Supporting Files:

9sClimateMethodsSummary.pdf

Lineage:

Climate surfaces for the present were based on the ANUCLIM 6.1 (Xu and Hutchinson, 2011) 30 year average climate surfaces for Australia (1976-2005), with elevational lapse rate correction applied over the 9s GEODATA digital elevation model (Hutchinson et al , 2008). Radiative correction derived from the same DEM was applied to radiation and maximum temperature before calculation of evaporation, using the CSIRO TerraFormer software. Summary statistics for each variable were then calculated including variables described in Williams et al (2012). A short methods summary is provided in the file 9sClimateMethodsSummary.pdf for further information.

Credit:

Tom Harwood, Randall Donohue, Ian Harman, Tim McVicar, Noboru Ota, Justin Perry, Kristen J Williams

Licence:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Organisations:

CSIRO (Australia), Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (Australia)

Attribution Statement:

Harwood, Tom; Donohue, Randall; Harman, Ian; McVicar, Tim; Ota, Noboru; Perry, Justin; Williams, Kristen (2016): 9s climatology for continental Australia 1976-2005: Summary variables with elevation and radiative adjustment. v3. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.4225/08/5afa9f7d1a552

Rights Statement:

All Rights (including copyright) CSIRO 2016.

Access:

The metadata and files (if any) are available to the public.