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.

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Research brief: Warm Atlantic Water explains sea ice melt north of Svalbard

Picture: Sea ice, Jökulsárlón, Iceland. Credit: Davide Cantelli (Unsplash). Northwest of Svalbard, north of Norway, an area known as Whalers Bay stays ice‐free in winter...

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...

How climate change impacts prescribed burning days

Picture (above): Fire in the forest. Credit: Deep Rajwar (Pexels) As the Bushfire Royal Commission investigates the deadly “Black Summer” and how it could have been prevented,...

Need for prediction of marine heatwaves

Picture (above): Wave in sunlight. Credit: Hernan Pauccara An international research team that includes researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the...