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Developing and publishing open-source software and my experience with an open peer-review process

June 17, 2021 8:55 am Published by Comments Off on Developing and publishing open-source software and my experience with an open peer-review process

Navid Constantinou developed a new Julia package that provides solvers for geophysical fluid dynamics problems in periodic domains. It was also the first time he had been involved in an open peer-review process, and this experience was "mind changing".

Prof Andy Pitman made a fellow of AAS

May 26, 2021 10:26 am Published by Comments Off on Prof Andy Pitman made a fellow of AAS

CLEX Director, Prof Andy Pitman has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science for his outstanding contribution to climate change.

How might Australia contribute to a next-generation global climate modelling facility?

May 19, 2021 11:57 am Published by Comments Off on How might Australia contribute to a next-generation global climate modelling facility?

The Royal Society has called for an international next-generation climate modelling centre (pdf), based on new cutting-edge high-performance computing and data services to support efforts toward net-zero emissions and to enable effective climate adaptation.

CLEX Seminar Series: Gerald A Meehl (NCAR)

May 7, 2021 5:01 pm Published by Comments Off on CLEX Seminar Series: Gerald A Meehl (NCAR)

On Thursday, April 8, 2021, Gerald A Meehl (NCAR) presented a seminar, Mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes connecting the tropical Atlantic and Pacific.

Changing ocean eddies reorganise ocean energy

April 23, 2021 1:01 am Published by Comments Off on Changing ocean eddies reorganise ocean energy

The discovery of changing eddy energy was made by a team of ANU and UNSW researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Their work, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows clear changes to the distribution and strength of these eddies, which had not been previously detected.

Statement on the misrepresentation of our paper in US Senators’ letter to Federal Reserve Chairman

March 24, 2021 6:09 pm Published by Comments Off on Statement on the misrepresentation of our paper in US Senators’ letter to Federal Reserve Chairman

A letter was sent by Senators Toomey, Shelby, Crapo, Scott, Rounds, Tillis, Kennedy, Hagerty, Lummis, Moran, Cramer, and Daines to Chairman Jerome Powell of the US Federal Reserve, dated March 18 which quotes our work. We seek to clarify some substantive issues.

Hello world

March 1, 2021 11:53 am Published by Comments Off on Hello world

Denisse Fierro Arcos is back in Australia completing her first semester as a PhD student at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS). Her project focuses on understanding how fine scale changes in sea ice and ocean conditions affect Southern Ocean marine ecosystems. This is her first blog post.

Conferences in the time of COVID

February 26, 2021 11:50 am Published by Comments Off on Conferences in the time of COVID

This time last year Kim Reid was planning a Euro-adventure where she would attend a summer school in the Swiss Alps, attend EGU, visit Reading and the Met Office and explore some castles on the side. Now she and her supervisor joke that if case numbers stay low, Kim might be able to visit a university in the same city.

Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

February 15, 2021 1:22 pm Published by Comments Off on Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

There is a great deal of misuse of climate model projections emerging in business. Climate models are being used for some purposes that are simply inappropriate leading to assessments of the physical risks to business that are of no value. However, there are ways to use climate model data that has value and can help business robustly assess some specific climate related risks.