CLEX, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) is an international research consortium of five Australian universities and a network of outstanding national and international partner organizations supported by the Australian Research Council.

Climate extremes are the confluence of high impact weather and climate variability. The Centre will improve our understanding of the processes that trigger or enhance extremes and build this understanding into our modelling systems. The improved predictions of climate extremes will help Australia cope with extremes now and in the future.

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Briefing note 11: Research on the Antarctic stratospheric polar vortex is important for Australia’s seasonal forecasts

Understanding what influences Australia’s climate is important for improving the nation’s seasonal forecasts. Research led by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology with...

Research brief: Simulating tropical cyclones with ACCESS

In this first part of a two-part paper, a new, high-resolution version of the ACCESS climate model is examined to determine its ability to simulate tropical cyclone climatology....

Research brief: Comparing precipitation measurements over land from in situ, reanalysis and satellites.

Picture: Rainfall on a tree. Credit: Shah-shah (Unsplash). Observational evidence of precipitation extremes is vital to better understand how these events might change in a...

Research brief: How clouds generate waves that affect vertical atmospheric motion

Picture: Clouds at sunset. Credit: Michael Weidner. On horizontal scales of several tens to hundreds of kilometres, which we call “mesoscale,” mean vertical motion is very small...