Radars and rainfall extremes – Alain Protat The role of land-atmosphere dynamics in droughts and heatwaves – Annette Hirsch CLEX Drought presentations Exploring changes in extreme rainfall over Australia – Margot Bador Drought – Michael Roderick Insights into drought from paleoclimate data – Nerilie Abram On near term climate (drought) prediction – Terry O’Kane Background, recent developments, and future directions in (event) detection and attributions – Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick Droughts generated by atmospheric variability – Andrea Taschetto Dought 2018: Modes of variability and local SLP and wind regressions – Julie Arblaster Understanding drivers of Antarctic sea ice variability and trends – Ariaan Purich Understanding the effect of global warming on precipitation – Martin Singh Heatwaves in the sea – really? – Neil Holbrook 2018 climate conditions – eastern Australia – Pandora Hope Submesoscale turbulence: a frontier of ocean research – Scott Bachman