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Research brief: Groundwater’s essential role in preserving plant transpiration during drought

September 17, 2021 11:13 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Groundwater’s essential role in preserving plant transpiration during drought

CLEX researchers and colleagues used a land-surface model that considered groundwater dynamics to explain how groundwater sustains transpiration and eases plant heat pressure during the heatwaves that occurred during the Millennium Drought and the 2017-2019 severe drought over southeast Australia.

Research brief: Urban heat island effect amplifies Sydney heatwaves

July 14, 2021 1:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Urban heat island effect amplifies Sydney heatwaves

This research uses Sydney, Australia’s largest city, as a test case for our new configuration of the Weather and Research Forecasting model run at a very high resolution of 800 m with a new urban classification scheme that describes the complexity of Sydney’s built environment.

Research brief: How ENSO affects the North Atlantic

July 14, 2021 1:23 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How ENSO affects the North Atlantic

In this study, CLEX researchers and colleagues showed that the North Atlantic sea-surface temperature response to ENSO is nonlinear with respect to the strength of the sea-surface temperature forcing in the tropical Pacific.

Research brief: El Niño variations have little impact on terrestrial carbon cycle

April 30, 2021 12:16 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: El Niño variations have little impact on terrestrial carbon cycle

Different expressions of El Niño do affect interannual variability in the terrestrial carbon cycle. However, the effect over longer timescales is small. This means the changing frequency of these two types of El Niño events may be of little importance in terms of robustly simulating the future terrestrial carbon cycle.

Research brief: How Central Pacific El Niños affect rainfall over the Murray Darling basin

March 18, 2021 1:16 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How Central Pacific El Niños affect rainfall over the Murray Darling basin

This research around central Pacific El Niños is important for agricultural and water resources planning efforts in the Murray Darling Basin region and may help with seasonal prediction efforts to predict drought‐breaking rain such as occurred in early 2020.

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.

Research brief: New reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data

February 12, 2021 2:05 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: New reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data

In this study, the researchers propose a reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata to provide guidance to data contributors on how to store data in repositories to maximise their discoverability, facilitate their efficient reuse, and add value to individual datasets.