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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 ).
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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