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Research brief: Changes to weather features of atmospheric conversion lines drive future changes to rainfall

February 18, 2019 2:51 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Changes to weather features of atmospheric conversion lines drive future changes to rainfall

Weather time scales will be needed for models to accurately simulate the dynamic contribution to future precipitation changes with global warming. This will better reproduce spatial patterns and reduce regional uncertainties, especially in the tropics.

CLEX tropical variability meeting: Andrew Marshall (Bureau of Meteorology)

February 18, 2019 1:20 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

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Briefing note 003: Why are we uncertain about how extremely wet conditions will change in Australia in the future?

February 11, 2019 4:08 pm Published by Comments Off on Briefing note 003: Why are we uncertain about how extremely wet conditions will change in Australia in the future?

Computer models used to simulate global climate agree the climate will warm in response to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases. However, a recent paper by Bador et al. (2018)1 includes results that highlight our uncertainty about exactly how extremely wet conditions will change in Australia. Further development of Australia’s national climate model, ACCESS, may help reduce this uncertainty.

Research brief: Australian climate policy inaction threatens lives

February 5, 2019 3:31 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Australian climate policy inaction threatens lives

Overall, the inaugural Australian Countdown finds that Australia is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on health, and that policy inaction in this regard threatens Australian lives. In a number of respects, Australia has gone backwards and now lags behind other high income countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom. Examples include the persistence of a very high carbon-intensive energy system in Australia, and a slow transition to renewables and low-carbon electricity generation.

Research brief: Strongest El Niño events to increase with climate change

February 5, 2019 12:53 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Strongest El Niño events to increase with climate change

We can expect more occurrences of extreme weather associated with eastern Pacific El Niño events (the strongest and most destructive of the two types of El Niño events), which will have pronounced implications for the twenty-first century climate, extreme weather and ecosystems.

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.

Research brief: What caused the rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in 2016?

January 18, 2019 10:43 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: What caused the rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in 2016?

Antarctic sea ice extent underwent a rapid decline in the spring of 2016 and is still well below average now. CLEX researchers have tied the decline to natural variability of both the atmosphere and ocean in two articles published in Nature Communications this month.