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Research brief: New downscaling approach will help urban planners prepare for future rainfall

May 31, 2019 2:30 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: New downscaling approach will help urban planners prepare for future rainfall

CLEX researchers and colleagues have developed a downscaling methodology using the HiDRUS model that accurately projects future rainfall in 1km grids at six minute intervals. This will be a boon for urban planners who need to build infrastructure to cope with the different future heavy rainfall events that will occur in a changing climate.

Research brief: Nutrient availability framework accurately forecasts plant growth from CO2 fertilisation effect

May 30, 2019 10:31 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Nutrient availability framework accurately forecasts plant growth from CO2 fertilisation effect

CLEX researchers and colleagues revisit the quasi-equilibrium analytical framework introduced by Comins and McMurtrie (1993) and explore the consequences of specific model assumptions for ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP).

Research brief: Towards reliable extreme weather and climate event attribution

May 29, 2019 2:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Towards reliable extreme weather and climate event attribution

New work published in Nature Communications develops a correction method that ensures the probability of climate extremes in the model simulations are consistent with real-world observations. In addition, it also corrects the rate of the long-term changes and the inter-annual variability so that it is consistent with observations.

Research brief: Misclassification in climate models of land cover over East Asia has little impact on results

May 24, 2019 1:25 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Misclassification in climate models of land cover over East Asia has little impact on results

New CLEX research finds land cover misclassifications over South East Asia based on remote sensing products have negligible impact on the outcomes of climate model experiments. However, land cover experiments that incorporate uncertainties must use large numbers of simulations to get robust results for rainfall and air temperature.

Research brief: Global warming temperatures set to accelerate as trade winds slow

May 21, 2019 1:01 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Global warming temperatures set to accelerate as trade winds slow

Natural variability has been found to play a role in the speed of warming of land surface temperatures. With indications that the negative Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation is now becoming positive, this suggests that the hiatus period is over and we are likely entering a phase of accelerated warming of global surface air temperatures.

Research brief: How clouds help create islands

May 21, 2019 10:34 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How clouds help create islands

The study proposes a conceptual model of lagoon island formation, which incorporates aeolian sedimentation and episodes of wave and tide over-wash. Although not part of the core CLEX program, this study represents an interesting multi-disciplinary application of our work on tropical storms to geomorphology.

Research brief: Data assimilation produces more realistic representation of Antarctic warming

May 13, 2019 2:57 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Data assimilation produces more realistic representation of Antarctic warming

New research confirms the long-term cooling over Antarctica during the last millennium and the delayed onset of anthropogenic warming are found in simulations that assimilate palaeoclimate data. This is not evident in simulations without data assimilation.