Category: Research briefs
Research brief: Which species matter most for marine ecosystems to survive climate change?
CLEX researchers and colleagues discovered which species are most important in transferring climate change impacts through the ecosystem using a model that simulated the southeast Australian ecosystem through to 2050.
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Research brief: New understanding reveals how jets and cyclones interact
A new framework for cyclone jet interaction improve our understanding of how the turbulent atmosphere is organised in coherent motions via the jet stream
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Research brief: Testing CORDEX for future climate projections
CLEX researchers evaluate the performance of CORDEX simulations over Australia against gridded observations of temperature and precipitation.
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Research brief: Do wet soils affect rainfall?
How wet the soil is before a storm can determine the amount of rain that falls. This research also produced some interesting findings for rainfall in Australia.
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Research brief: New formula supersedes Priestley-Taylor equation for evaporation
New research suggests that the concept of maximum evaporation reported here is a natural attribute of an extensive wet evaporating surface. This provides a fundamental new insight as to how radiation, evaporation and temperature are interlinked.
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Research brief: Topography plays key role in Jakarta’s extreme rainfall
Topography plays a key role in the development of extreme rainfall events in Jakarta, Indonesia. The IOD and MJO play a greater role in these extremes than ENSO.
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Research brief: Improving climate model estimates of photosynthesis response to elevated CO2
This research shows accounting for mesophyll conductance in climate models may have important implications for carbon and water fluxes in boreal regions.
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Research brief: How climate projections change with different model subsets
This work examines how climate projections are affected by using different subsets of available climate models. The researchers find several variables need to be optimised independently to get the best results.
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Research brief: Categorising and naming marine heatwaves
This paper proposes a standard categorisation and naming framework for marine heatwaves that works in a similar way to schemes used for tropical cyclones or earthquakes.
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Research brief: Redesigning the Tropical Pacific Observing System
An improved Tropical Pacific Observing System that is responsive to user needs will provide for better understanding and prediction of the climate system, which will reduce climate uncertainty for society.
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Research brief: Changes to weather features of atmospheric conversion lines drive future changes to rainfall
Weather time scales will be needed for models to accurately simulate the dynamic contribution to future precipitation changes with global warming. This will better reproduce spatial patterns and reduce regional uncertainties, especially in the tropics.
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Research brief: Data assimilation strategies for state dependent observation error variances
This research shows how to optimise the observational uncertainty description for data assimilation schemes in the special case of state dependent observational uncertainty.
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