The influences of large scale forcing on the diurnal cycle of rainfall over Darwin: observations and modelling.

Robert Clyde Jackson1, Scott M Collis1, Yan Feng2, Valentin Louf3, Alain Protat3, Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson4, Brenda Dolan5, Scott W Powell6, Scott E Giangrande7 and Robert J. Warren II8, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (8)SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States