Abstract: A technique is presented which provides estimates of rainfall from extratropical cyclones over an area of 125 000 km2 in southeastern Australia in simulated real time conditions. It utilizes a statistical relation between ...

Abstract: An approach to verifying position forecasts of line phenomena was developed. The technique, which tests for occurrence/nonoccurrence and the time of arrival of line phenomena, was applied to frontal position prognoses over ...

Abstract: A climatology of the prefrontal westerly trough of southern Australia is presented, based on data for the 10-yr period 1976?85. Trough formation was confined to the longitudes of the Australian continent in the warmer ...

Abstract: A case study of frontogenesis within a surface prefrontal trough over southern Australia is presented. The trough developed ahead of a surface cold front and, over a period of approximately 24 h, intensified into a mature ...