Category: News
Australian bushfires spawn massive phytoplankton bloom
The Australian bushfires of the 2019/2020 summer had far-reaching effects. It has now been revealed in new research published in Nature that the smoke produced a phytoplankton bloom larger in area than all of Australia, thousands of kilometres away in the Southern Ocean between New Zealand and South America.
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CLEX Seminar Series: Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer from ECWMF talks about the European Union Destination Earth Programme: A template for future Earth system prediction?
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IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report: conclusions on the evolving risk of drought
Drought is a major risk to Australia with extended periods of drought affecting our social, economic and environmental systems. The newly released report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contains significant new assessments of the science and future projections of drought.
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The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: What does it mean for Tasmania?
To better understand the implications of the latest climate science for Tasmania, this brief combines information from the IPCC AR6 WG1 report, with regional assessments that contributed to the UTAS Blueprint for a climate-positive Tasmania, and expertise from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX). The regional information is based on Tasmania-specific downscaled modelling undertaken by Climate Futures for Tasmania.
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Climate Australia: Episode 3: The parched Earth
Climate Australia host Lee Constable is joined by the chief investigators in the Drought team of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes – Prof Nerilie Abram, Prof Jason Evans and Dr Andrea Taschetto. Along the way, Lee discovers why drought is such a tricky topic to explore for climate scientists and why understanding how droughts may change in the future is one of the wicked problems of climate change.
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Climate Australia: Episode 2 – Climate communication
Climate Australia host Lee Constable is joined by CLEX Media and Communications Manager Alvin Stone; Research Fellow at Monash University and founder of Skeptical Science Dr John Cook; and Deputy Head of the UNSW School of Psychology Prof Ben Newell to explore the current research around communicating climate science
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Antarctic climate variations found to originate north of Australia
CLEX researchers have overturned a scientific paradigm that has existed for 50 years. New research published in Nature Geoscience shows the massive convection caused by the ocean just north of Australia, causes a chain reaction that is strong enough to put an almost permanent dent in the powerful winds that circle the Antarctic.
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Briefing note 16: What is left in the global carbon budget?
The Paris Agreement requires countries to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that the global average temperature remains well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. But how likely are we to meet these targets?
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Special briefing: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report
Australian researchers in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes have made major contributions to the 2021 IPCC Working Group 1 report, through the authorship of the report, review and the many scientific papers cited in the report.
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Position Vacant: Research Fellow – Weather and Climate Interactions program (Monash hub)
As part of the Weather and Climate Interactions Research Program (RP) of CLEX, the Research Fellow will develop and apply advanced dynamical diagnostic techniques to understand the part played by tropical low pressures systems in extreme rainfall in the northern part of Australia.
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Position vacant: Research Fellow, Attribution and Risk program (Monash Hub)
The successful applicant will investigate the ability of the current CMIP6 class and higher resolution climate models to capture these processes, for example, the connections between tropical convection and extratropical waves and how these processes have and will change in response to anthropogenic climate change.
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A List of Common Unspoken Knowledge for Postgrad Climate Students
Kim Reid offers a useful list of common unspoken knowledge for postgraduate students in the climate sciences. Hopefully, she says, this will save you some time and mistakes in the future.
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