CLEX, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) is a major initiative funded by the Australian Research Council. The Centre is an international research consortium of five Australian universities and a network of outstanding national and international partner organizations.

The Centre will improve our understanding of the processes that trigger or enhance extremes and build this understanding into our modelling systems. The improved predictions of climate extremes will enable improvements in how Australia copes with extremes now and in the future.

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Research brief: Climate model projections of Philippines typhoon activity

Picture (above): Super typhoon Maysak seen from space taken by European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as the International Space Station passed near the storm on...

Research brief: Phosphorus poor soils half Amazon’s ability to take up carbon dioxide

How much will plants increase their photosynthetic uptake as atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) rises? This is one of the most pressing questions we face, with wide-ranging...

Research brief: The dynamics of summer heatwaves over Sydney

In early 2017, a series of record-breaking heatwaves affected southern Queensland, New South Wales(NSW) and parts of northern Victoria, during which Sydney and Brisbane recorded...

Research brief: How tropical convection is influenced by surrounding atmosphere

Tropical convection is a key process in Earth’s climate and its representation in climate models remains difficult. This study uses 13 years of weather radar data in Darwin,...