Tag Archive: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

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Research brief: Here’s what happens when you turn off convective parameterisations

July 6, 2018 2:42 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Here’s what happens when you turn off convective parameterisations

Convective parameterizations are widely believed to be essential for realistic simulations of the atmosphere, but are crude in today's weather and climate models. CLEX researchers, report on what happens when a number of these models are run with these schemes simply turned off.

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Research brief: Droughts inconsistently represented across climate models

July 6, 2018 2:18 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Droughts inconsistently represented across climate models

This study evaluated GCMs for common drought metrics during the past 55 years. It found different models can produce very different simulations of drought, depending on the type of drought and metric analysed. The study points to a need to improve GCMs for droughts to reduce uncertainties in future projections.

The science manuscript submission process

June 20, 2018 12:56 am Published by Comments Off on The science manuscript submission process

Drawing on 5 years of experience as an editor for Geophysical Research Letters, Peter Strutton presented a talk that covered what happens between submission of a manuscript and eventual acceptance or rejection. Specific topics included the importance of cover letters, dealing with rejection, addressing reviewers’ comments and considerations around authorship.

PhD Opportunity: Ocean heat recycling during El Niño events

June 20, 2018 12:12 am Published by Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Ocean heat recycling during El Niño events

Using novel techniques developed by the supervisory team, the PhD candidate will evaluate the role of diabatic processes in the ENSO cycle, and how they may change in the future, using new observations and state-of-the-art model simulations. This research is critical to improving our ability to project future climate change.