Abstract: A climatology of all tropical cyclones that have affected the subtropical west coast of Australia during the 82-year period 1909?1990 is presented. A total of 39 events were recorded, an average of 0.5 per year, although ...

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 ...