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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How climate change impacts prescribed burning days

Picture (above): Fire in the forest. Credit: Deep Rajwar (Pexels) As the Bushfire Royal Commission investigates the deadly “Black Summer” and how it could have been prevented,...

Need for prediction of marine heatwaves

Picture (above): Wave in sunlight. Credit: Hernan Pauccara An international research team that includes researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the...

Research brief: Decomposing temperature extremes errors in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models

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Marine heatwaves affecting the ocean’s tiniest organisms

Picture (above): Phytoplankton. Credit: Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (Flickr - CC BY NC ND 2.0) Tiny microbes at the base of the ocean food chain will be...