Oral Presentation AMOS Annual Meeting and International Conference on Tropical Meteorology and Oceanography

Tropical lows over Australia (#253)

Hongyan Zhu 1 , Roger Smith 2
  1. Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  2. Meteorology Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

A brief review of the dynamics of tropical lows that form during the Australian monsoon will be presented. The formation will be illustrated by a case that occurred in January 2015 over Western Australia. The structure and evolution of this low will be examined using European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts analyses together with a regional, cloud-permitting simulation using the Bureau of Meteorology's ACCESS model. It will be shown that such lows have characteristics similar to those of tropical cyclones.