The Australian FLUXNET data provide perhaps the world’s most valuable observations for building and evaluating the land models needed for projecting future droughts and heatwaves.
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An international group of scientists has now forecast the likelihood global warming will exceed 1.5C over the next 5 years. This is one of the thresholds of the UNFCCC’s Paris Agreement, which aims “to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C”.
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Research brief: Southern ocean overturning circulation responds to SAM
Research brief: Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought
Research brief: The interaction of ocean basins may improve long-term climate predictions
Research brief: Indian Ocean warming modulates global atmospheric circulation trends
