Category: Research briefs
Where does Australia’s rain come from?
Where does our rain come from? For a drought-prone continent like Australia, and a country with communities and industries affected by drought and flooding rains, the answer to that question is of vital importance.
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Research brief: Natural variability and warming pattern may decide how El Niños will change
CLEX researchers and colleagues investigated how El Niños may change in the future using paleoclimate data in combination with CMIP5 and CMIP6 model runs.
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Research brief: Climate change will strengthen Southern Hemisphere monsoons
Comparing past and future changes in Southern Hemisphere monsoons has revealed how they will alter with climate change under a business-as-usual scenario.
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Research brief: How nighttime storms form without cold pools
Organised nighttime thunderstorms can sometimes occur without a surface cold pool. CLEX researchers investigated how this could occur and still support storms.
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Research brief: Decade of observations needed to flatten Soil moisture variations
CLEX researchers and colleagues find soil moisture variations need to be considered over at least a decade before a steady-state assumption can be made.
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Research brief: How cities generate more extreme rainfall
Observations over Kuala Lumpur and climate model experiments reveal how the warmth of cities compared to the surrounding area enhance extreme rainfall events.
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Research brief: Study identifies actors limiting tropical storm development
New detection scheme identifies the potential limiting factors for tropical storm formation across different ocean basins.
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Research brief: Wind not needed to create ocean gyres
CLEX researchers have demonstrated that ocean gyres (complete with a rich eddy field and strong western boundary current) occur even in the absence of wind forcing.
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Research brief: What drives decade-to-decade variations of global warming?
CLEX and NCAR researchers explore decade-long variations in global mean temperature that are superimposed on the warming trend and find what can make short term warming trends so unpredictable.
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Research brief: Warm Atlantic Water explains sea ice melt north of Svalbard
Northwest of Svalbard, north of Norway, an area known as Whalers Bay stays ice‐free in winter despite the negative air temperatures. It has been assumed that this open water is maintained by inflow of warm Atlantic Water along Svalbard’s west coast; however, this mechanism has never been demonstrated quantitatively -till now.
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Research brief: The biogeochemical structure of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies.
CLEX researchers used real-world observations with satellite observations to calculate the quantity of nutrients carried into the Subantarctic Zone by mesoscale eddies. They found these eddies carried high nitrate and low silicate waters into the Subantarctic Zone.
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Research brief: Decomposing temperature extremes errors in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models
CLEX researchers addressed the error compensation issue for temperature extremes by defining a novel performance metric that identifies those models that can simulate temperature extremes well and simulate them well for the right reasons.
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