CAWCR Technical Reports
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Day, K. and Smith, I. (eds).
Adding Value: Applications of Weather and Climate Services - abstracts of the eleventh CAWCR Workshop 27 November - 1 December 2017, Melbourne, Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 081
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Dharssi, I., Bi, D., Brassington, G., Hudson, D., Lorenz, R., Wang, Y., and Day, K. (ed).
Coupled Modelling and Prediction: from weather to climate - abstracts of the ninth CAWCR Workshop 19 October - 22 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 080
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Dare, R.
Sedimentation of volcanic ash in the HYSPLIT dispersion model.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 079
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McInnes, K. and Kepert, J.
Coasts and Extremes, abstracts of the eighth CAWCR Workshop 10 November - 12 November 2014, Melbourne, Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 078
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Peter, J., Seed, A., Steinle, P., Rennie, S. and Curtis, M.
A Bayesian methodology for detecting anomalous propagation in radar reflectivity observations
CAWCR Technical Report No. 077
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Murphy, B., Timbal, B., Hendon, H. and Ekstrom, M.
Victorian Climate Initiative: Annual Report 2013-14
CAWCR Technical Report No. 076
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Keenan, T., Puri,K., Hirst,T., Pugh,T., Evans,B., Dix,M., Pitman,A., Craig,P., Law,R., Alves,O., Dietachmayer,G., Steinle,P. and Cleugh, H.
Next Generation Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (NG-ACCESS)-A Roadmap 2014-2019
CAWCR Technical Report No. 075
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Craig, P. On behalf of the BLUElink team.
Bluelink 2 overview and milestone summary
CAWCR Technical Report No. 074
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Rennie, S.J., Curtis, M., Peter, J.R., Seed, A.W. and Steinle, P.J.
Training the Ancilla Naive Bayes classification system to provide quality control for weather radar data
CAWCR Technical Report No. 073
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Miles, E., Griesser, A., Charles, A. and Spillman, C.
The Pacific-Australia climate change science and adaptation planning program's seasonal prediction websites
CAWCR Technical Report No. 072
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Hoeke, R., McInnes, K., O’Grady, J., Lipkin, F. and Colberg, F.
High resolution met-ocean modelling for storm surge risk analysis in Apia, Samoa
CAWCR Technical Report No. 071
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Durrant, T., Greenslade, D., Hemer, M. and Trenham, C.
A Global Wave Hindcast focussed on the Central and South Pacific
CAWCR Technical Report No. 070
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Harman, I.N. and Trudinger, C.M.
The simple carbon-climate model: SCCM7 Technical documentation
CAWCR Technical Report No. 069
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Trenham, C.E., Hemer, M.A., Durrant, T.H. and Greenslade. D.J.M.
PACCSAP Wind-wave Climate: High resolution wind-wave climate and projections of change in the Pacific region for coastal hazard assessments
CAWCR Technical Report No. 068
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Cottrill, A., Charles, A., Shelton, K., Jones, D. and Kuleshov, Y.
Seasonal Forecast Verification in the Pacific using a coupled model POAMA and the statistical model SCOPIC
CAWCR Technical Report No. 067
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Day, K. and Maguire, S. (eds.)
Observing, Estimating and Forecasting Rainfall: From Science to Applications - abstracts of the seventh CAWCR Workshop 21 October - 23 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 066
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Mortimer, N. and Symonds, G.
Bluelink III Workpackage P4.2 Littoral-zone Field Program
CAWCR Technical Report No. 065
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Zhao, M., Roff, G., Hendon, H., Okely, P., Zhou, X., Marshall, A., Liu, G., Tseitkin, F. and Alves, O.
Improving Multiweek Rainfall Forecasts: Experimentation with the ACCESS climate models
CAWCR Technical Report No. 064
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Garde, L.A., Spillman, C.M., Majewski, L., Griffin, C., Kruger, G. and Beggs, H.
ReefTemp Next Generation
CAWCR Technical Report No. 063
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Uslu, B and Greenslade, D.
Validation of Tsunami Warning Thresholds Using Inundation Modelling
CAWCR Technical Report No. 062
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Sun, Z and co-authors.
Improvements in atmospheric physical parameterizations for the Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS)
CAWCR Technical Report No. 061
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Nairn, J. and Fawcett, R.
Defining heatwaves: heatwave defined as a heat-impact event servicing all community and business sectors in Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 060
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Collier, M. and Uhe, P.
CMIP5 datasets from the ACCESS1.0 and ACCESS1.3 coupled climate models
CAWCR Technical Report No. 059
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Law, R.M., Raupach, M.R., Abramowitz, G., Dharssi, I., Haverd, V., Pitman, A.J., Renzullo, L., Van Dijk, A. and Wang, Y-P.
The Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model Roadmap for 2012-2017.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 057
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Day, K. (Eds.)
Understanding and Prediction of Monsoon Weather and Climate - abstracts of the sixth CAWCR Workshop 12 November - 15 November 2012, Melbourne, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 056
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Dharssi, I., Steinle, P. and Candy, B.
Towards a Kalman Filter based land surface data assimilation scheme for ACCESS.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 054
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Peace, M. and Mills, G.
A case study of the 2007 Kangaroo Island bushfires.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 053
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Brassington, G.B., Freeman, J., Huang, X., Pugh, T., Oke, P.R., Sandery, P.A., Taylor, A., Andreu-Burillo, I., Schiller, A., Griffin, D.A., Fiedler, R., Mansbridge, J., Beggs, H. and Spillman, C.M.
Ocean Model, Analysis and Prediction System: version 2.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 052
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Lim, E-P., Hendon, H.H., Langford, S. and Alves, O.
Improvements in POAMA2 for the prediction of major climate drivers and south eastern Australian rainfall.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 051
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Fawcett, R.J.B., Trewin, B., Braganza, K., Smalley, R.J., Jovanovic, B. and Jones, D.A.
On the sensitivity of Australian temperature trends and variability to analysis methods and observation networks.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 050
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Trewin, B.
Techniques involved in developing the Australian Climate Observations Reference Network Surface Air Temperature (ACORN-SAT) dataset.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 049
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Cottrill, A., Hendon, H.H., Lim, E-P., Langford, S., Kuleshov, Y., Charles, A. and Jones, D.
Seasonal Climate Prediction in the Pacific using the POAMA coupled model forecast system.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 048
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Harman, I.N., Trudinger, C.M. and Raupach, M.R.
SCCM - the Simple Carbon-Climate Model: Technical Documentation.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 047
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Day, K.A. (Editor)
Abstracts of the Fifth International Verification Methods Workshop, 1 - 7 December 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 046
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Greenwood, R., Schulz, E., Parkinson, M. and Neudegg, D.
Evaluation of the TIGER SuperDARN Over-The-Horizon radar systems for providing remotely sensed marine and oceanographic data over the Southern Ocean.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 045
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Day, K.A. and Hollis, A.J. (Editors)
Composition of the atmosphere - abstracts of the fifth CAWCR Workshop 15 November - 17 November 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 044
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Cope, M. and Lee, S.
Exploring the co-benefit of electric vehicle uptake and ozone pollution reduction in Sydney - Final report.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 043
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Raupach, M.R., Harman, I.N. and Canadell, J.G.
Global climate goals for temperature, concentrations, emissions and cumulative emissions.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 042
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Durrant, T and Greenslade, D.
Evaluation and implementation of AUSWAVE.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 041
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Charles, A., Hendon, H., Wang, Q.J., Robertson, D and Lim, E-P.
Comparison of techniques for the calibration of coupled model forecasts of Murray Darling Basin seasonal mean rainfall.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 040
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Langford, S. and Hendon, H.
Assessment of international seasonal rainfall forecasts for Australia and the benefit of multi-model ensembles for improving reliability.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 039
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Hennessy, K., Clarke, J and Ricketts, J.
Methods for producing extreme temperature projections for Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 038
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Dowdy, A.J., Mills, G.A. and Timbal, B.
Large-scale indicators of Australian East Coast Lows and associated extreme weather events.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 037
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Keenan, T.D. and Cleugh, H.A. (Editors).
Climate Science Update: A Report to the 2011 Garnaut Review.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 036
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Corbin, D.K and Law, R.M.
Extending atmospheric CO2 and tracer capabilities in ACCESS.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 035
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Kirono, D.G.C., Hennessy, K., Mpelasoka, F. and Kent, D.
Approaches for generating climate change scenarios for use in drought projections - a review.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 034
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Hollis, A. and Day, K. (Editors).
Ocean Science – Extended abstracts of the fourth CAWCR Workshop 9 November - 11 November 2010 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 033
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Lim, E-P., Hendon, H.H., Alves, O., Yin, Y., Wang,G., Hudson,D., Zhao, M. and Shi, L.
Dynamical seasonal prediction of tropical Indo-Pacific SST and Australian rainfall with improved ocean initial conditions.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 032
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Langford, S., Hendon, H.H. and Lim. E-P.
Assessment of POAMA's predictions of some climate indices for use as predictors of Australian rainfall.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 031
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Taylor, A., Brassington, G.B. and Nader. J.
Assessment of BLUElink OceanMAPSv1.0b against coastal tide gauges.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 030
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Day, K. (editor)
Proceedings of the Australian Wind Waves Research Science Symposium, 19-20 May 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 029
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Contardo, S., Symonds, G. and Mortimer, N.
BLUElink II Workpackage P3 Inner Shelf and Nearshore Field Programs.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 028
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Bi, D. and Marsland, S.
Australian Climate Ocean Model (AusCOM) Users Guide.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 027
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Timbal, B., Arblaster, J., Braganza, K.., Fernandez, E., Hendon, H., Murphy, B., Raupach, M., Rakich,C., Smith, I., Whan K. and Wheeler, M.
Understanding the anthropogenic nature of the observed rainfall decline across South Eastern Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 026
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Gregory, P.A., Rikus, L. and Kepert, J.D.
Testing and diagnosing the ability of the Bureau of Meteorology's Numerical Weather Prediction systems to support prediction of solar energy production.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 025
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Mills, G.A., Webb, R., Davidson, N.E., Kepert, J., Seed, A. and Abbs. D.
The Pasha Bulker east coast low of 8 June 2007.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 023
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Gordon, H., O’Farrell, S., Collier, M., Dix, M., Rotstayn, L., Kowalczyk, E., Hirst, T. and Watterson, I.
The CSIRO Mk3.5 Climate Model.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 021
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Mills, G.A. and McCaw, L.
Atmospheric stability evnironments and fire weather in Australia - extending the Haines Index.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 020
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Dowdy, A.J. and Mills, G.A.
Atmospheric states associated with the ignition of lightning-attributed fires.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 019
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Franklin, C., Dix, M., Jakob, C. and Roff, G.
Assessing the performance of a prognostic and a diagnostic cloud scheme using single column model simulations of TWP-ICE.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 018
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Hollis, A.J. (editor).
Modelling and understanding high impact weather - extended abstracts of the third CAWCR Modelling Workshop 20 November - 2 December 2009, Melbourne Australia
CAWCR Technical Report No. 017
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Cope, M., Lee. S., Noonan, J., Lilley, B., Hess, D. and Azzi, M.
Chemical Transport Model - Technical Description.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 015
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Greenslade, D.J.M., Simanjuntak, M.A. and Allen, S.C.R.
An enhanced tsunami scenario database:T2.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 014
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Raupach, M.R., Briggs, P.R., Haverd, V., King, E.A., Paget, M. and Trudinger, C.M.
Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP): CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Component: Final report for Phase 3 .
CAWCR Technical Report No. 013
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Durrant, T.H., Greenslade, D.J.M. and Warren, G.R.
Assessing upgrades to the Bureau of Meteorology\u2019s Wave Forecasting System using satellite altimeter data.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 012
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Allen, S.C.R. and Greenslade, D.J.M.
Spectral climatology of Australian and South-West Pacific tide gauges.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 011
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Dowdy, A.J., Mills, G.A., Finkele, K. and de Groot, W.
Australian fire weather as represented by the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index and the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 010
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Sun, Z.
Development of the Sun-Edwards-Slingo radiation scheme (SES2).
CAWCR Technical Report No. 009
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Huang, X., Ma, Y. and Mills, G.A.
Verification of mesoscale NWP forecasts of abrupt wind changes.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 008
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Hasson, A.E.A., Mills, G.A., Timbal, B. and Walsh, K.
Assessing the impact of climate change on extreme fire weather in southeast Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 007
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Hollis, A.J. (editor).
High resolution modelling : extended abstracts of the second CAWCR Modelling Workshop, 25-28 November 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 006
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Braganza, K., Gergis, J.L., Power, S.B., Risbey, J.S. and Fowler, A.M.
A new basin-wide multi-proxy index of the El-Nino Southern Oscillation, A.D. 1525-1982.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 005
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Timbal, B., Li, Z. and Fernandez, E.
The Bureau of Meteorology Statistical Downscaling Model Graphical User Interface: user manual and software documentation.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 004
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Keywood, M.D., Gras, J.L. and Rotstayn, L.D.
The Australian Aerosol and Climate Research Program: A proposal.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 003
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Galbally, I.E., Meyer, C.P., Wang, Y.P., Kirstine, W.V., Smith, C., Weeks, I.A., Elsworth, C.M., Robertson, F. and Shuhui, S.
Measurements of soil-atmosphere exchange of CH4, CO, N2O and NOx in the semi-arid Mallee System in Southeastern Australia.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 002
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Lo, F., Wheeler, M.C. and Lennox, S.
Improving predictions of the North Australian wet season: onset and duration.
CAWCR Technical Report No. 001