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The nature of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and its connections with Australian rainfall variability
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 1329 See the
link below for public details on this project.
---- Public Summary from Project----
The Antarctic Circumpolar Wave is a mode of high latitude variability involving the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice. Some research indicates it has a period of about 5 years but the robustness and persistence has yet to be fully established. This project will examine the nature of the ACW in a long data series, and will determine whether the wave is related to Australian rainfall.
In this project, sea ice data were sourced from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449, USA). The NCEP reanalysis data set was sourced from: NOAA/ National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, Maryland, 20746 USA).
Australian rainfall data were taken from Jones and Weymouth (1997: An Australian Monthly Rainfall Dataset. Technical Report No. 70, Bureau of Meteorology, 19 pp.) compilation and provided digitally by the Bureau of Meteorology.
The sea ice concentration data used were for the Antarctic only (the entire Antarctic sea ice domain). Data started in 1978. All data were collected by satellite. A link to a metadata record for these data are available from the URL given below.
Two NCEP reanalysis data sets were used in this study. The first was NCEP/NCAR, with 6-hourly data available from 1958 (see the URL provided below for further information). The second was the NCEP/DOE set, with 6-hourly data available from 1979 (see the URL provided below for further information).
In this project the following model/analysis was applied:
Application of The University of Melbourne cyclone tracking scheme (Simmonds et al., 2003, Monthly Weather Review, 131, 272-288) and a broad range of statistical tests. Brief details are provided in the Summary. See the link for the pdf document for more detailed information.
These complex statistical analyses were run over the entire length of the project (2001/02 - 2003/04). They were run on the Sun Workstation cluster in the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- The nature of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and its connections with Australian rainfall variability
- Date (Publication)
- 2001-04-09
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2001-09-30 2004-03-31
- Title
- Synoptic activity in the seas around Antarctica
- Date (Publication)
- 2003
- Citation identifier
- 131
Author
- Name
- Monthly Weather Review
- Page
- 272-288
- Title
- An Australian Monthly Rainfall Dataset.
- Date (Publication)
- 1997
- Citation identifier
- Technical Report No. 70
Author
- Name
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Page
- 19
- Title
- Verification of Australian monthly district rainfall totals using high resolution gridded analyses.
- Date (Publication)
- 1998
- Citation identifier
- 47
Author
- Name
- Australian Meteorological Magazine 47
- Page
- 41-54
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > OSCILLATIONS
- EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > TELECONNECTIONS > ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION (AAO)
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- DMSP 5D-2/F11 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11
- DMSP 5D-2/F13 > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13
- Nimbus-7
- SATELLITES
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- A PDF copy of the paper describing the model used is available for download from the provided URL to AAD staff only. Links to the metadata records describing the original data sources are also available at the URLs given below.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1329 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 9.3
- Distribution format
-
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 1329
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION > PUBLICATIONS
Download point for the data - pdf document detailing the model used
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I - metadata from the National Snow and Ice Data Center
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
NCEP/NCAR, with 6-hourly data available from 1958
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
NCEP/DOE set, with 6-hourly data available from 1979
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. See the links for the source data for further information about the quality of the original datasets.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2007-09-06 - Record updated by Dave Connell with input from Ian Simmonds. 2015-08-24 - record updated by Dave Connell - Basic updates.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ASAC_1329
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 1376f807-5cca-4d9c-8026-c62546c3cd94
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T18:21:25
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1329
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2001-04-09T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-04-26
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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