Multi-century cool and warm season rainfall reconstructions forAustralia’s major climatic regions: Data and additional information on a seasonal rainfall reconstruction of major the eight natural resource management regions (NRM) based on paleoclimate data FREUNDMANDY 2017 <u><b>Additional information and datasets</b> </u><div>used in Freund et al. 2017, Multi-century cool and warm season rainfall reconstructions of Australia's major climatic regions.<div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br> <div><div></div></div><div>Files includes all primary input and output files. </div><div><b>Input files</b>: The bi-seasonal NRM regional averages based in AWAP</div><div><b>Output files</b>: Bi-seasonal reconstructions for cool and warm season for all NRM regions </div><div><br></div><div><b>Warm</b> and <b>Cool</b> season* rainfall for the eight Natural Resource Management (NRM)** regions</div><div><br> <div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div>File format provided: netcdf (.nc) and text format (.txt)<br><div><div><div></div></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>1)</b> Instrumental regional averages for each NRM region (1900-2015) based on the gridded Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP)</div><div><br></div><div><b>2)</b> Reconstructed regional averages for each NRM region (1200-2015) based on a network of palaeoclimate records from the Southern Hemisphere</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>* Warm season (average precipitation in: Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar)</div></div></div></div><div>* Cool season (average precipitation in: Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep)<br></div><div><br></div><div>** NRM regions are defined by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-projections/about/modelling-choices-and-methodology/regionalisation-schemes/) and should cited as followed: CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology 2015, Climate Change in Australia Information for Australia's Natural Resource Management Regions: Technical Report, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia,2015.</div><div><br></div><div><u>Regions: </u></div><div><b>CS</b>-Central Slopes</div><div><b>EC</b>-East Coast</div><div><b>MB</b>-Murray Basin</div><div><b>MN</b>-Monsoonal North</div><div><b>R</b>-Rangelands</div><div><b>SS</b>-Southern Slopes</div><div><b>SSWF</b>-Southern and South-Western Flatlands</div><div><b>WT</b>-Wet Tropics<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Please cite and find further details in:</u></b></div><div>Freund, M., Henley, B. J., Karoly, D. J., Allen, K. J. and Baker, P. J.: Multi-century cool- and warm-season rainfall reconstructions for Australia's major climatic regions, Clim. Past, 13(12), 1751–1770, doi:10.5194/cp-13-1751-2017, 2017.</div></div><div>https://www.clim-past.net/13/1751/2017/cp-13-1751-2017.html<br></div></div></div>