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Past undergraduate projects

  • MON02: THE ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE AND AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL

    MON02: THE ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE AND AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL

    In this project you will investigate the competing effects the Antarctic ozone hole and increasing greenhouse gases have on the Australian summer season rainfall, using the latest climate models. These are now available on the National Computing Infrastructure (NCI) supercomputer and are being used as input into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.

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    6 August 2020
  • MON01: Precipitation in shallow convection during cold-air outbreaks over the Southern Ocean

    MON01: Precipitation in shallow convection during cold-air outbreaks over the Southern Ocean

    Using unique observations from recent field campaigns, this project aims to quantify the amount of precipitation associated with different low-level cloud morphologies during cold-air outbreaks over the Southern Ocean.

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    6 August 2020
  • CSIRO03: Exploring the dynamics of decadal variability and transitions in climate teleconnections

    CSIRO03: Exploring the dynamics of decadal variability and transitions in climate teleconnections

    This project will focus on the connection between conceptual climate models and high resolution general circulation models (GCMs). The student will analyse simplified models that represent teleconnection behaviour and calibrate them to reflect the settings of a GCM. The student will also have access to high dimensional GCM output and can compare an ensemble of “real-world” simulations to the behaviour of the conceptual model using statistical methods.

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    6 August 2020
  • CSIRO02: Analysing long tide gauge records in Australia in conjunction with the 20th Century reanalysis to better understand how extreme events and by association extreme sea level events are changing

    CSIRO02: Analysing long tide gauge records in Australia in conjunction with the 20th Century reanalysis to better understand how extreme events and by association extreme sea level events are changing

    Understanding historical changes in extreme sea levels is necessary for the accurate projection of their changes over the next century. This project will look at digitized sea level data, to better understand the causes of extreme sea levels the southern Australian region and how these events vary over the duration of the record.

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    6 August 2020
  • CSIRO01: When will the ozone layer recover? Estimating ozone layer recovery from climate model projections

    CSIRO01: When will the ozone layer recover? Estimating ozone layer recovery from climate model projections

    The student will produce estimates of the future evolution of ozone depleting substance concentrations, so the recovery date of the ozone hole can be estimated. Importantly, it will also be possible to estimate the uncertainty around the recovery date.

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    6 August 2020
  • UNSW08: What would happen if we suddenly warmed the entire ocean at the sea-surface?

    UNSW08: What would happen if we suddenly warmed the entire ocean at the sea-surface?

    What would happen if we suddenly warmed the entire ocean at the sea-surface? Would suddenly cooling it down cause an equal and opposite response? Using ocean climate models we have carried out these and many more extreme experiments. The student will explore the asymmetric and often surprising behaviour of the ocean.

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    6 August 2020
  • UNSW07: FIRE FRONT TRACKING

    UNSW07: FIRE FRONT TRACKING

    Errors in identifying the fire scar – the portion of a long-lasting bushfire that is actively burning or smouldering, are the largest errors in forecasting emissions from these events. This project will develop and analyse fire progression tracking using data from the 2019 – 2020 bushfire season.

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    6 August 2020
  • UNSW06: change of dryness in australia

    UNSW06: change of dryness in australia

    Dryness is defined by ratio of accumulated annual rainfall and potential evapotranspiration (PET). Understanding changes in dryness will help stakeholders and policy makers making long-term plans in water management and mitigation/adaptation. In this study, the 50-km resolution climate simulations from the NARCliM outer domain will be used to assess the future changes in dryness.

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    6 August 2020
  • UNSW05: Faster warming in the Alps

    UNSW05: Faster warming in the Alps

    The Australian Alps are the highest mountain range in Australia and is an important region in terms of ecosystem, biodiversity, energy generation and winter tourism. Alpine areas are vulnerable to climate change. This project will use NARCLiM simulations to analyse the relationship between warming rates and changes in albedo and surface energy budget.

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    6 August 2020
  • UNSW04: Understanding how precipitation extremes scale in future climates

    UNSW04: Understanding how precipitation extremes scale in future climates

    This project will assess how precipitation projections for Australia from global and regional models scale using the latest start-of-the-art regional and global climate models.

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    6 August 2020
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