April 20, 2023 10:28 am
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes’ Drought research program has had a very productive year, including building momentum through two in-person workshops of the research team. In March 2022 the program’s Chief Investigators and postdoctoral researchers met and developed a plan to draw together the diverse expertise of the team around a case study to understand the intense drought that impacted south-east Australia between 2017 and early 2020 – a drought which we have termed the Tinderbox Drought.... View Article
April 20, 2023 10:25 am
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The Attribution and Risk research program had a busy start to the year, organising and participating in a number of seminars and meetings around the February and March extreme rainfall events in Queensland and NSW and associated floods. This included substantial outreach through media interviews and briefing notes on extreme rainfall, atmospheric rivers, compound events and the triple-dip La Niña, as well as contributions to the 2022 NSW Flood Inquiry. The extent to which climate change played a role in... View Article
April 20, 2023 10:24 am
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The Weather and Climate Interactions research program investigates climate, and especially climate extremes, through a weather lens.
April 20, 2023 10:00 am
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When researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes discovered that rapid rain bursts in Sydney had intensified by 40 percent in two decades, it caught the attention of the prestigious journal Science. With Science’s publication impending, the Centre’s Engagement and Impact team snapped into action, working with the researchers to do as follows: The Results The rapid rain bursts media story received over 370 media mentions from Australian and international media, reaching a potential audience of more... View Article
April 20, 2023 1:44 am
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Associate Professor Melissa Hart has been the heart of the Researcher Development Program since the inception of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, in 2017.
April 20, 2023 12:32 am
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As recognition of climate risk and business grows, and as regulators encourage business to consider climate risk, the breadth of interested organisations grows.
April 19, 2023 5:15 pm
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While scientific debate is important and healthy, we must be careful not to let nomenclature become the centre of the debate, and ultimately delay progress in our understanding of phenomena.
April 18, 2023 10:54 am
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A compound event is when bad weather and climate events combine together. Storms, droughts, floods and fires can become compound events.
April 18, 2023 10:28 am
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Low-income nations have contributed relatively little to global emissions. Compensation from richer nations is vital to helping them manage the growing burden of climate harms.
April 18, 2023 4:34 am
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This research has the potential to create RCM emulators that can efficiently downscale multiple variables simultaneously, while preserving the physical relationships between them.
