July 15, 2024 11:34 am
Published by Climate Extremes
Accurate projections of climate change and associated extreme events under differing emission scenarios are linked to realistic representations of the temporal variability of the atmosphere at a variety of time scales. A new paper by Shao et al. (2024) introduces a novel time variability correction method designed to diagnose and rectify variance errors across a range of time scales.
July 12, 2024 11:49 am
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Corals are particularly sensitive to weather conditions over the Great Barrier Reef. Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes have found that the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence weather patterns over the region, contributing to the rising threat of coral bleaching.
July 11, 2024 11:54 am
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Ashley Huang, a passionate atmospheric scientist and an alumna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, is set to embark on her PhD at Cornell University. Here, we take a look at her career journey to date.
June 14, 2024 11:26 am
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With climate change increasing the frequency and severity of bushfire weather, climate scientists warn that Australia could face bushfires that are even more devastating than the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires.
June 12, 2024 5:07 pm
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Climate scientists have found that the increase in aridity in drylands in response to climate change won't lead to a general loss of vegetation productivity. Instead, most of the global drylands are projected to become greener and more productive with climate change.
June 3, 2024 3:00 pm
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Aditya Sengupta is a PhD researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes studying the impacts of climate change on El Niño. After studying physics in India, and driven by the desire to make a change, Aditya decided to shift to climate science.
May 31, 2024 6:23 pm
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The 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption produced the equivalent of 60,000 Olympic swimming pools of water vapor, which ended up in the stratosphere. Researchers have studied its impact on climate and suggest that it could lead to unusual winter weather for years to come.
May 16, 2024 1:21 pm
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Researchers have found that windblown dust delivers enough iron to support a third of the Southern Ocean’s phytoplankton growth. This finding sheds light on the vital role that dust-fuelled productivity plays in the ocean's capacity to absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
May 9, 2024 3:09 pm
Published by Climate Extremes
It seems counterintuitive that rainfall increases in the later years of a multi-year La Niña event. Yet, this is what occurred during the recent triple-dip La Niña. Even more interestingly, this increase happened despite no strengthening of La Niña in the tropical Pacific. So, what's the reason behind it?
April 22, 2024 2:32 pm
Published by Climate Extremes
Our ability to predict conditions over the coming season has greatly advanced in just the past 20 years. We now better understand how the various climate drivers influence our weather, and we have more computational power to run models.