Somini Sengupta (New York Times) At a time when the majority of the world’s population is urban, climate change presents grave new risks for the world’s cities and forces city... View Article
Jeff Good (University of Montana) Rapid environmental change threatens global biodiversity and has already led to the decline or extirpation of many taxa. Although phenotypic plasticity may enable populations to... View Article
Mapping land dryness at high resolution for fire prediction Vinodkumar, Imtiaz Dharssi and Paul Fox-Hughes Bureau of Meteorology Accurate soil moisture information is essential for the monitoring and... View Article
Hydrological extremes by their very nature are rare events and require careful use of statistical methods to ensure robust and reliable predictions. Talk summary Hydrological extremes by their very nature... View Article
Joan Llort Jordi (IMAS) Farewell Seminar: Decadal changes in Tasman Sea phytoplankton induced by atmospheric dust
Speaker: Anna von der Heydt (Utrecht University) Climate sensitivity is a key predictor of climate change. However, it is not very well constrained, either by climate models, observational, historical or... View Article
Zaved Khan (Bureau of Meteorology). Modelling seasonal rainfall forecasts forced with improved predictive ocean surface temperature Seasonal rainfall forecasts are in high demand for users such as irrigators and water... View Article
Penny Maher (University of Utrecht) The tropics are expanding poleward at about 1 degree per decade in observations. The Hadley cell edge is one common measure of tropical expansion. One... View Article
Prof Christian Jakob (Monash University). Climate models have significant errors in precipitation globally, but in particular in the tropics. Most models overestimate annual mean tropical precipitation, with the largest errors... View Article
Haoran Wang (University of Tasmania). Honours seminar: Properties of cloud and radiation environment across the Southern Ocean