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 10: Research on heatwaves and droughts by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes supports a major international report on Climate Change and Land

Download briefing note here. KEY POINTS Research by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes has been highlighted in a major international report on Climate Change and...

CLEX annual workshop, 2019

This year’s annual workshop, held in Hobart, brought together complex science, explainers, breakout meetings and poster sessions in a way that was perhaps the most accessible...

Montreal Protocol set to slow global warming by at least 1°C

Picture: Stratosphere. Credit: Willpower The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroying the ozone layer, now...

Climate change will increase frequency of Australia’s most dangerous fires

Picture: Tatong Bushfire. Credit: Andrew Wallace (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Catastrophic wildfires like the Black Saturday wildfires in 2009 and Canberra Wildfires of 2003, which...