This page is an archival of some of my (and others) contributions to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Synoptic_Discussion email list and to the international Tropical storms discussion list. My active participation occurred from early 2002 to early 2003. My current focus has moved to the international monsoon discussion list. For information see http://tstorms.org/monsoon/
2005:
23 August 2005: More
on "Earth has not anything to show more fair"
18 August 2005: Earth
has not anything to show more fair: Cut off low development (PVA
max) off Western Australia
3 February 2005: South
East Australia record rainfall event Part I
Geoff Feren Figures
3 February 2005: South
East Australia record rainfall event Part II
Current Discussions: (2004)
24 December 2004: Tropical Cyclone in the Southern Indian Ocean
31 May/1 June 2004: Dry
season circulation/convective event over Darwin
31 May 2004 Differences
in versions of today's MSLP analysis
28 May 2004 Progs
for next Tuesday: an outlier?
10 May 2004 Extraordinary
swell event
April 26 2004: Good
cut-off low over the weekend, current left-jet entrance cloud off Queensland
31 March 2004: South
Atlantic TC?
10 March 2004: Interesting
satpics over South Eastern Australia
3 March 2004: Tropical
cyclone Monty wrap-up
25 February 2004: Temperature
extremes during February
9 February 2004 (Ensembles)
Block
over SE Australia
6 February 2004: The
"gusty Storm" from Australia
5 February 2004: CAPE
-Australia Day Storm
4 February 2004: Yesterday
(3 Feb)'s heavy rainfall along Queensland Coast: Conditions required for
heavy convective rainfall Also includes follow-up discussion
of Melbourne heavy convective rain event of 02 December.
2 February 2004: (Ensembles)
Maintenance of a cut-off low... a highly predictable configuration?
2 February 2004: January
in Melbourne: coldest for 12 years.
2 February 2004: Burst
in the monsoon
9 December
2003: The 02 December thunderstorm event (continuation
of discussion from 02 December)
3
December 2003: Line of Cb's across Victoria
3
December 2003: MCS in New South wales
2
December 2003: Melbourne severe thunderstorm
event: evening of 2 December
28
October 2003: A Broken Hill dust event
27
September 2003: Gale force winds over Sydney
on Sep 27th
26
September 2003: Frontogenesis in the Bight?
23
September 2003: Australian thunderstorm climatology
19
May 2003: Sri Lanka floods
15
May 2003: Massive ITCZ: westerly "burst"
14
May 2003: Surge on the northern New South
Wales coast
8
May 2003: Tropical Cyclone Development in
Northern Indian Ocean
10
February 2003: Transport of smoke and aerosols
from the fires: upper troposphere or lower troposphere?
7
February 2003: Planetary scale transport of
aerosols from the South East Oz fires
6
February 2003: Spectacular vortex-sheet
roll-up last night across the Indian Ocean and into the West-Pacific
6
February 2003: Tropical Hovmoellers
6
February 2003: The last chapter of the life
of TC Beni: extratropical transition associated with a split jet
blocking pair
5 February 2003: Smoke
cloud over Victoria: red ring around the sun and haze over Melbourne
1 February 2003: Pyro_Cb's
(Continuation of 30 January)
30 January 2003: Weekend
Temperatures over Melbourne continued: Notes from duty forecaster Ward
Rooney
30
January 2003: Deep convection with fires?
(reply to 23 January)
26
January 2003: Weekend temperatures: why so
warm? Brave forecasts for Sunday
24
January 2003: Smoke covering southern and
eastern Victoria
23
January 2003: Deep convection with fires?
21
January 2003 Potential tropical-cyclogenesis
in the Southern Indian Ocean, associated with an equatorial mixed Rossby-Gravity
wave????
19
January 2003: Canberra fires
14
January 2003: December 21 2002: the "penguin
fog event"
10
January 2003: El Nino, Oz Rainfall, Guo Ming
Wang, Friday afternoon, the pub, etc
10
January 2003: The fires triggered by lightning
09
January 2003: The cool change of 7-8 January:
Lightning-caused fires, and a Southerly Buster.
07 January 2003: Intense
monsoon low over Top End
Earlier
Discussions
26
November 2002: Potential TC near Singapore
23
November 2002 Structure of the ITCZ
across the Indian Ocean (follow on from MRG
discussion of 22 Nov)
22
November 2002: Development of Haishen:
Mixed Rossby Gravity wave influence.
18
November 2002: Tropical squall lines
(continued from 15 November)
15
November 2002: Overnight squall line (and dust
storm)
14
November 2002: Griffith dust-storm on the
12th
11
November 2002: "Knock-em- down" storms (Historic
references to Australian monsoon) (reply to 6
November)
7
November 2002: The development of Atang in
the Southern Indian Ocean, a possible development in southern Bay of Bengal,
the current SPCZ
6
November 2002: Transition season "knock'em
down" storms
5
November 2002: TUTT feature in Atlantic (replies
to discussion of 4 November)
4
November 2002: Dust storm continued:
Notes from Queensland Duty Forecaster (Geg Bond)
4
November 2002: TUTT feature in Atlantic
(P.s: Indian Ocean double ITCZ)
30
October 2002: Melbourne's "cool change"
30
October 2002: Dust-storm of 23
October, continued (Split window analysis)
28
October 2002: North East Pacific
vortex dynamics, still ongoing.
24
October 2002: Today's GOES-West
image: a lovely example of the Guinn and Schubert "ITCZ
rolling
up into balls' process
23
October 2002: Continental scale
dust-storm
11
October 2002: Northward movement of
the Equatorial Rossby Waves
Subsequent
discussion on transformation of wave-types
and
real-time detection of equatorially-trapped waves
08
October 2002: NSW
fires
07
October 2002: Monsoon depression /
Rossby-gyre: When is a TC a TC?
06
October 2002: Big Typhoon Brewing in
WPAC and perhaps a twin
ARCHIVED DISCUSSIONS (pre- October 2002) by subject matter.
a) TROPICS
Tropical Cyclone Development (see also n = 1 Rossby waves) Tropical Cyclones
Tropical Squall Lines Equatorial dynamics and the n= 1 trapped Rossby waves
Australian
monsoon (and Indonesian monsoon) Large
scale tropical phenomena
b) AUSTRALIAN SYNOPTICS
Australian Rainfall Events Model Performance
South-east Australia summertime cold fronts
Dec_2001/January_2002 New South Wales Bushfires
Fire weather WA Trough / Leeuwin Current
Severe weather / significant weather Extra-tropical and midlatitude cyclones
Northwest cloudbands and related phenomena Quikscat data
ClimatologySouthern hemisphere dynamics
Web graphics Sea Surface Temperatures
Stratocumulus History of the frontal concept in Australia
OTHER (internal to Bureau of Meteorology)
