CLEX, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

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

Climate extremes are the confluence of high impact weather and climate variability. 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 help Australia cope with extremes now and in the future.

Breaking news

Conferences in the time of COVID

by Kim Reid This time last year I was planning a Euro-adventure where I would attend a summer school in the Swiss Alps, attend EGU, visit Reading and the Met Office and explore...

Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics

Governments, regulators and shareholders are increasingly demanding businesses assess and disclose their climate-related risks. To assess the financial risk associated with the...

Graphic Designer

Job No.: 612234Location: Clayton campusEmployment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.5)Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointmentRemuneration: Pro-rata of $69,522 - $79,857 pa HEW Level...

Research brief: New reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data

Picture: Leaves under the sky. Credit: Min An (Pexels). Leaf level measurements provide us with an understanding of the physical processes that illuminate how plants trade carbon...

Research briefs

Research brief: The biogeochemical structure of Southern Ocean mesoscale eddies.

Picture: Phytoplankton-rich waters off of Argentina. Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA’s Ocean Color Group, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership...

Research brief: Convective extremes don’t always coincide with warm extremes during El Niños

Picture: Clouds from the beach. Credit: Clem Onojeghuo (Unsplash). Since 1979, three extreme El Niño events occurred, in 1982/83, 1997/98, and 2015/16, with pronounced impacts...

Research brief: How dryness affects plant hydraulics in different systems

Picture (above): Sedona, US. Credit: Pixabay (Pexels). The degree to which plants regulate the openness of their stomatal pores as soil water availability changes varies...

Research brief: Which species matter most for marine ecosystems to survive climate change?

Human-induced climate change is affecting ecosystems in many different ways. In the ocean, these changes include warming, habitat destruction, fishing, nutrient inputs and...

CLEX Research programs

Extreme rainfall

Drought

Heatwaves and cold air outbreaks

Climate variability and teleconnections