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Figure 7. Example simulator outputs for the Cobbler Road fire 8th January 2013, showing the simulated fire scar in yellow and the observed( reference) fire scar in orange. The operational forecast data( top) is compared to simulations using the reanalysis data( personal communication: Chris Bridge, Bureau of Meteorology).
Interested?
BARRA will ultimately represent a suite of high-resolution gridded meteorological datasets and as such will prove valuable for a large range of applications such as developing climatologies of weather extremes across the nation, understanding short-lived and fast-developing phenomena and the study of bushfires. Some of the benefits of BARRA in exploring weather and climate over Australia are already being realised but there is a wide scope of areas and ideas that remain to be explored. Are you a researcher that has an interesting case study or idea to examine? We welcome collaboration or research using the reanalysis data. us for more information on ReanalysisHelp @ bom. gov. au or visit www. bom. gov. au / research / projects / reanalysis /( to be launched soon).
The Bureau of Meteorology will be holding an interactive workshop as part of the 2018 AMOS-ICSHMO conference in Sydney in February 2018. At this workshop, Bureau staff will be demonstrating how to best access its most popular and powerful weather and climate datasets. This workshop will include a section on accessing reanalysis data.
The data will become available in the coming months through the National Computational Infrastructure( NCI). Please contact