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CAWCR Research Letters

• CAWCR Research Letters Issue 1, December 2008
  1. Timbal, B. and P. Hope, 2008  Observed Early Winter Mean Sea level Pressure Changes over Southern Australia: a comparison of existing datasets.
  2. Chambers, L. E., 2008.  Climate Change and Birds: a southern hemisphere perspective
  3. Brassington, G. B., N. Summons, G. Ball and L. Cowen, 2008.  East Australian Current and Tasman Sea Surface Drifting Buoy Experiment-2008.
  4. Sandery, P. A. and G. B. Brassington, 2008.  Preliminary Evaluation of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction System.
  5. Chattopadhyay, M., C. Vincent and J. Kepert, 2008.  MALAPS and MesoLAPS: a case study of the East Coast Low event of 27th June 2007.

• CAWCR Research Letters Issue 2, July 2009
  1. Timbal, B., 2009. The continuing decline in South-East Australian rainfall: Update to May 2009.
  2. Franklin, C. and M. Dix, 2009. Analysis of low latitude cloud properties in the ACCESS AMIP simulation - regime sorting using mid-tropospheric velocity.
  3. Law, R. M. and K. D. Corbin, 2009. Simulating the atmospheric transport of CO2 and SF6 using the UK Met Office Unified Model.
  4. Leeuwenburg, T., 2009. Introducing the Natural Language Generation of Text Weather Forecasts in the GFE.
  5. Spillman, C. M., O. Alves, D. A. Hudson and A. N. Charles, 2009. POAMA SST Predictions for the Great Barrier Reef: Summer 2008/2009.
  6. Taylor, A., 2009. Weather-Band Coastal Sea Level Anomalies along Australia's Southern Shelves: Bluelink OceanMAPS
  7. Watterson, I. G., 2009. Numbers and Genesis Locations of Tropical Cyclones in the NOAA IBTrACS Archive

• CAWCR Research Letters Issue 3, December 2009
  1. Barras, V. J. I., A. K. Luhar and P. J. Hurley, 2009. A low wind speed parameterisation for stably stratified boundary layers in ACCESS.
  2. Lu, W. and F. Woodcock , 2009. Comparative verification of 3-hourly guidance from Operational Consensus Forecasts and Model Output Forecasts.
  3. Treloar, A., 2009. QNH Derivation and Forecasting in the GFE.
  4. Lim, E.-P., H. H. Hendon, O. Alves, Y. Yin, M. Zhao, G. Wang, D. Hudson and G. Liu, 2009. Impact of SST bias correction on prediction of ENSO and Australian winter rainfall.
  5. Lemus-Deschamps, L. L., T. Hume and N. Moodie, 2009. Short-Term Variability of Ozone and UV: A case study.
  6. Rashid, H. A., M. Dix, and A. C. Hirst, 2009. Surface energy balance in the ACCESS models: comparisons with observation based flux products.
  7. Rafter, T. and D. Abbs, 2009. An analysis of future changes in extreme rainfall over Australian regions based on GCM simulations and Extreme Value Analysis.
  8. Lee, J., P. Steinle and C. Draper, 2009. Soil Moisture Observation from AMSR-E and its potential use within ACCESS Data Assimilation.

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