Tag Archive: Ailie Gallant

IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report: conclusions on the evolving risk of drought

September 7, 2021 3:58 pm Published by Comments Off on IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report: conclusions on the evolving risk of drought

Drought is a major risk to Australia with extended periods of drought affecting our social, economic and environmental systems. The newly released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contains significant new assessments of the science and future projections of drought.

CLEX presents to the forewarned is forearmed community

August 14, 2021 10:43 am Published by Comments Off on CLEX presents to the forewarned is forearmed community

As part of CLEX’s engagement with the agricultural sector, Chief Investigators Ailie Gallant and Andrea Taschetto presented an overview of some of the Centre’s relevant research interests to the monthly meeting of the Forewarned is Forearmed Community of Practice (FWFACoP) group in June 2021.

ECR Workshop 2020

December 12, 2020 6:07 pm Published by Comments Off on ECR Workshop 2020

With the drama and instability of 2020, many of our ECRs have faced unprecedented challenges including loneliness, homesickness and the mounting uncertainties for their future careers. That latter concern may be why the majority of ECRs wanted this year's virtual ECR workshop to focus on the Future in academia and planning your research career.

Research brief: How uncertainties in data and drought indices affect drought identification

September 24, 2020 10:22 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How uncertainties in data and drought indices affect drought identification

CLEX researchers examined the uncertainties of the input data of three commonly used drought indices, with the data coming from different sources, including observations and reanalysis. The ability of these indices to detect drought was assessed against soil moisture from multiple global land surface models.

Research brief: How atmospheric thirst creates flash droughts

March 5, 2020 11:07 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How atmospheric thirst creates flash droughts

Drought can unfold on sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales, meaning weeks to months, posing a particular risk to the agricultural sector. This type of drought has recently been recognized and given the name “flash drought”.

Knowledge Brokerage Team report – August 2019

August 1, 2019 5:00 am Published by Comments Off on Knowledge Brokerage Team report – August 2019

The CLEX Knowledge Brokerage Team (KBT) is now well and truly bedded down after coming into existence in October 2018. Team leader Ian Macadam has visited each of the CLEX university nodes and has attempted to answer the question on everyone’s lips “So what is a knowledge broker anyway?”.

Workshop: The science of multi-year drought in Australia

March 18, 2019 9:27 am Published by Comments Off on Workshop: The science of multi-year drought in Australia

A successful workshop on the science of multi-year drought was recently held at Monash University in Melbourne, where 50 experts from Australia, and small number of experts from the UK and the US, met to discuss what we know about the science of these droughts in Australia.

Heat difference at night between city and country increases with heatwaves

January 24, 2019 2:29 pm Published by Comments Off on Heat difference at night between city and country increases with heatwaves

It’s normal for cities to be warmer than surrounding rural areas at night but researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at Monash University found heatwaves make this difference almost two and a half times greater under some heatwave conditions.