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Research brief: How climate change impacts Marine heatwaves around Australia and New Zealand

March 15, 2021 10:10 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How climate change impacts Marine heatwaves around Australia and New Zealand

This study uses a high‐resolution climate model to investigate how and why marine heatwaves would change for the Australian region. The relative impacts of increases on background ocean temperature and changes to intrinsic temperature variations are compared.

Research brief: New Zealand’s costliest floods caused by atmospheric rivers

March 3, 2021 3:45 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: New Zealand’s costliest floods caused by atmospheric rivers

The largest rivers on Earth are not on the ground, but in the sky. Our new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, showed that nine out of ten of the most expensive floods in New Zealand (2007-2017) occurred during an Atmospheric River event, and seven to all ten of the top ten most extreme rainfall events at eleven different locations occurred during Atmospheric Rivers.