CMS talks: Git with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)
May 7, 2019 2:28 pm Comments Off on CMS talks: Git with a Graphical User Interface (GUI)Claire Carouge (CLEX CMS) explains the basics of Sourcetree, a graphical user interface for git.
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CMS talk: Introduction to Bash – Part 4
May 7, 2019 2:15 pm Comments Off on CMS talk: Introduction to Bash – Part 4Holger Wolff (CLEX CMS) covers some basic Bash topics
“Impossible” research produces 400-year El Niño record and reveals astonishing change
May 7, 2019 1:00 am Comments Off on “Impossible” research produces 400-year El Niño record and reveals astonishing changeDr Mandy Freund and CLEX colleagues have produced a world first 400-year long record of El Niño activity. It's a record that was previously considered impossible to extract from coral cores.
Climate extremes explain 18%-43% of global crop yield variations
May 2, 2019 1:24 pm Comments Off on Climate extremes explain 18%-43% of global crop yield variationsCLEX researchers and colleagues from Australia, Germany and the US have quantified the effect of climate extremes, such as droughts or heatwaves, on the yield variability of staple crops around the world. Overall, year-to-year changes in climate factors during the growing season of maize, rice, soy and spring wheat accounted for 20%-49% of yield fluctuations, according to research published in Environmental Research Letters.
Seminar: Energetic constraints on climate model errors in precipitation
April 29, 2019 11:12 am Leave your thoughtsProf 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 occurring over the warm tropical oceans of the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Atlantic. In addition to the mean errors, there are significant shortcomings in the rainfall variability in space and time. Given its immediate impact on tropical rainfall, most of the errors are usually attributed to shortcomings in the... View Article
PhD Opportunity: Unravelling the representation of realistic urban neighbourhoods in large scale climate modelling
April 29, 2019 10:22 am Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Unravelling the representation of realistic urban neighbourhoods in large scale climate modellingThis project will apply state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of microscale urban flow such as large eddy simulations to develop a 1-D (multi-layer) model of turbulent flow with detailed parameterisation regarding the role of geometry; surface heating and material; and vegetation.
CLEX Student induction
April 1, 2019 12:34 pm Leave your thoughtsThis induction is for new CLEX students and postdocs. If you have joined the Centre since the last induction (September 2018) you should join this meeting. If you joined prior to September 2018 and missed that induction, please join this one. The objective of the meeting is to introduce you all to the Centre, and the support and opportunities available via our Researcher Development program. Videoconference rooms have been booked at each node, please talk to your friendly admin guru... View Article
Briefing note 005: Heatwaves in the ocean threaten marine ecosystems across the world
March 29, 2019 11:58 am Comments Off on Briefing note 005: Heatwaves in the ocean threaten marine ecosystems across the worldMarine heatwaves are becoming longer and more frequent. A global assessment of marine heatwaves has concluded that they have “the capacity to restructure entire ecosystems and disrupt the provision of ecological goods and services in the coming decades".
Research brief: Testing CORDEX for future climate projections
March 8, 2019 2:21 pm Comments Off on Research brief: Testing CORDEX for future climate projectionsCLEX researchers evaluate the performance of CORDEX simulations over Australia against gridded observations of temperature and precipitation.
Research brief: Do wet soils affect rainfall?
March 8, 2019 9:27 am Comments Off on Research brief: Do wet soils affect rainfall?How wet the soil is before a storm can determine the amount of rain that falls. This research also produced some interesting findings for rainfall in Australia.