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RP1 Extreme Rainfall News

News and briefs from the CLEX Extreme Rainfall research program
  • Research brief: Tickling climate models reveals their bad behaviour

    Research brief: Tickling climate models reveals their bad behaviour

    In this work CLEX researchers aim to understand a few popular ways to parameterize convection. They extracted one vertical column from five different GCMs and lightly tickled (perturbed) it and then observed the responses.

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    22 March 2021
  • The known unknowns of climate change

    The known unknowns of climate change

    Lee Constable interviews Prof Christian Jakob about what we don’t know about climate change for her channel on the Cimpatico Studios platform, Climate Australia.

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    18 December 2020
  • Research brief: tropics and SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE subtropics were drier in the mid‑Pliocene Warm Period

    Research brief: tropics and SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE subtropics  were drier in the mid‑Pliocene Warm Period

    New study shows November-to-March precipitation (when rainy season peaks over most of the Southern Hemisphere land mass) was significantly reduced both in the Southern Hemisphere tropics and subtropics due to a weakening of the subtropical convergence zones during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period.

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    2 November 2020
  • Research brief: Tropical rainfall modelling errors decrease slowly, but storm resolving models may be the future

    Research brief: Tropical rainfall modelling errors decrease slowly, but storm resolving models may be the future

    An international team including CLEX researchers examined models used by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) over three model phases linked to IPCC reports – CMIP3, CMIP5, and the most recent, CMIP6, to see if they improved representation of tropical rainfall.

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    23 October 2020
  • Research brief: The Sensitivity of Atmospheric River Identification

    Research brief: The Sensitivity of Atmospheric River Identification

    CLEX researchers explore the challenges of identifying atmospheric rivers and find that detecting these events is highly variable according to resolution, and choice of the integrated water vapour transport thresholds. The uncertainties in a single detection method and data parameters may be as large as uncertainties across AR detection methodologies.

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    20 October 2020
  • Research brief: Tropical cyclones intensify more quickly in a warming world

    Research brief: Tropical cyclones intensify more quickly in a warming world

    CLEX researchers find rapidly intensifying hurricanes may become more frequent in a future warmer climate and the speed of this increase in intensity will continue to accelerate as the world’s oceans continue to warm.

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    2 October 2020
  • Researchers call on Australian citizen scientists to collect storm data

    Researchers call on Australian citizen scientists to collect storm data

    Australia researchers are calling on storm chasers and members of the general public fascinated by severe weather to take part in a citizen science project that will help better capture the occurrence of extreme weather events and improve our ability to forecast them.

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    1 October 2020
  • Research brief: Where does Australia’s rain come from?

    Research brief: Where does Australia’s rain come from?

    Where does our rain come from? For a drought-prone continent like Australia, and a country with communities and industries affected by drought and flooding rains, the answer to that question is of vital importance.

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    4 September 2020
  • Research brief: Climate change will strengthen Southern Hemisphere monsoons

    Research brief: Climate change will strengthen Southern Hemisphere monsoons

    Comparing past and future changes in Southern Hemisphere monsoons has revealed how they will alter with climate change under a business-as-usual scenario.

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    11 August 2020
  • Research brief: How nighttime storms form without cold pools

    Research brief: How nighttime storms form without cold pools

    Organised nighttime thunderstorms can sometimes occur without a surface cold pool. CLEX researchers investigated how this could occur and still support storms.

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    10 August 2020
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