10.4225/49/5a2e3b825ffb9 MANDY FREUND MANDY FREUND Warm seasonal rainfall The University of Melbourne 2017 Reconstruction Rainfall Instrumental AWAP Australia NRM precipitation paleoclimate reconstructions netcdf files csv excel Climate Science Hydrology Palaeoclimatology Paleoclimatology 2017-12-11 08:02:07 Dataset https://melbourne.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Warm_seasonal_rainfall/5687629 <b>Warm</b> season* rainfall for the eight Natural Resource Management (NRM)** regions <div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div>File format provided: netcdf and csv format<br><div><div><div><div> </div> </div> </div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>1)</b> Instrumental regional averages for each NRM region (1900-2015) based on the gridded Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP)</div><div><br></div><div><b>2)</b> Reconstructed regional averages for each NRM region (1200-2015) based on a network of palaeoclimate records from the Southern Hemisphere</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>* Warm season (average precipitation in: Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar)</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>** NRM regions are defined by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-projections/about/modelling-choices-and-methodology/regionalisation-schemes/) and should cited as followed: CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology 2015, Climate Change in Australia Information for Australia's Natural Resource Management Regions: Technical Report, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia,2015.</div><div><br></div><div><u>Regions: </u></div><div><b>CS</b>-Central Slopes</div><div><b>EC</b>-East Coast</div><div><b>MB</b>-Murray Basin</div><div><b>MN</b>-Monsoonal North</div><div><b>R</b>-Rangelands</div><div><b>SS</b>-Southern Slopes</div><div><b>SSWF</b>-Southern and South-Western Flatlands</div><div><b>WT</b>-Wet Tropics<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><u>Reference and details in: </u></div><div>Freund, M., Henley, B. J., Karoly, D. J., Allen, K. J. and Baker, P. J.: Multi-century cool- and warm-season rainfall reconstructions for Australia's major climatic regions, Clim. Past, 13(12), 1751–1770, doi:10.5194/cp-13-1751-2017, 2017.<br></div>