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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Research brief: How uncertainties in data and drought indices affect drought identification

Picture (above): Dry landscape. Credit: PXhere (CC0). Drought is a slowly evolving phenomenon whose modulating mechanisms stem from complex interactions of atmospheric, land...

Are Video Games Turning Your Kids into Environmentalists?

As a Melburnian, the last two months have been rough, and the prospect of another month and a bit of stay-at-home orders is pretty depressing, to say the least. For the sake of...

Where does Australia’s rain come from?

Picture: Rainbow. Credit: Binyamin Mellish (Pexels). Where does our rain come from? For a drought-prone continent like Australia, and a country with communities and industries...

Analysis reveals where marine heatwaves will intensify fastest

Picture (above): Boat on water at sunset. Credit: Johannes Plenio. The world’s strongest ocean currents, which play key roles in fisheries and ocean ecosystems, will experience...