January 24, 2019 2:29 pm
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It’s normal for cities to be warmer than surrounding rural areas at night but researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at Monash University found heatwaves make this difference almost two and a half times greater under some heatwave conditions.
January 18, 2019 10:43 am
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Antarctic sea ice extent underwent a rapid decline in the spring of 2016 and is still well below average now. CLEX researchers have tied the decline to natural variability of both the atmosphere and ocean in two articles published in Nature Communications this month.
December 18, 2018 1:20 pm
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By employing an atmosphere-only version of ACCESS, CLEX researchers generated multiple sea surface temperature patterns of the same El Nino and La Nina events, and assessed how this influenced heatwaves over various Australian regions.
December 18, 2018 1:07 pm
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A focus on building resilience in health and health infrastructure is needed to deal with the future effects of extreme events – both due to climate change and climate variability.
December 4, 2018 2:22 pm
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Under future global warming, models shows increases in the wettest day of the season or year exceeds the range of changes explained by natural variability in most land areas.
November 23, 2018 11:49 am
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A new study explores a new, probabilistic way of prediction of stratospheric warming events in the Northern Hemisphere based on dynamical arguments produces meaningful forecasting information around ten times longer than traditional model forecasting.
November 6, 2018 1:23 pm
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The key measures are the "Wet Bulb Globe Temperature" often used to screen for dangerous heat at sporting events and in workplaces, the "Wet Bulb Temperature" beloved of weather geeks, and "Apparent Temperature" quoted to the public by weather services. The bottom line is that the closer we are pushed to our physiological limits by extreme heat, the more important humidity becomes.
November 6, 2018 9:49 am
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Urban Climate and Energy Model (UCLEM) is a new climate model focused on Australian conditions that integrates energy use and human behaviour to generate accurate representations of urban climates.
October 19, 2018 1:20 pm
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In 2016, Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes researchers and colleagues measured Southern Ocean INPs for the first time in over four decades. The numbers of these particles were extremely low compared to other oceans and 100 times lower than the previous Southern Ocean measurement program conducted in the 1970s.
October 17, 2018 10:00 am
Published by Climate Extremes
If you are a stormchaser or just someone who loves the theatre of wind, lightning, heavy rain and hail when a storm whips through, then you are perfectly placed to help climate science with the new WeatheX app.