CLEX Postdoc positions
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes has a range of positions for postdoctoral researchers. Click on this item to find out more.
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Tag: UNSW
Research brief: New climate sensation scale can tell you how you feel
CLEX researchers and colleagues have developed a new six-dimensional semantic space to describe sensations and comfort outdoors.
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Research brief: The shortcomings of convection-resolving models
A new paper by Martin Jucker and colleagues reveals the choice of a particular convection-resolving model (CRM) has a much larger impact on the results than increasing resolution. It also suggests the behaviour of CRMs is tied to model internals instead of the phenomena they are trying to reproduce.
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Charuni’s blog: PhD confirmation in the age of COVID
Charuni writes about the stress of facing a PhD confirmation during a pandemic and how doing a PhD has changed her attitude to herself. She also suggests some approaches that have made the confirmation process a little easier.
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Postgraduate opportunities at the UNSW
The CLEX node at the University of NSW is offering several PhD scholarships on a competitive basis. Details of how to apply can be found on this page along with some example projects offered by our researchers.
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Climate recorded in seawater: A workshop on water-mass transformation analysis for ocean and climate studies
In early February 2019 an international cohort of around 40 oceanographers, marine biogeochemists and climate modellers gathered at UNSW to discuss the use of the Water Mass Transformation (WMT) framework for studies of ocean physics, biogeochemistry and climate. The workshop was an initiative of several CLEX early career researchers and gained interest from a diverse international community.
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UNSW03: Distilling the ocean’s role in climate using phase diagrams and machine learning
The summer student on this project will make use of recent observations and combine these novel machine learning and image processing techniques to understand the drivers of recent ocean change.
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BoM02: The effect of bias correction and downscaling methods on hydrological projections
The aim of this student project is to investigate the effect of bias correction and downscaling methods on hydrological projections for Australia.
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UNSW8: Modelling the Southern Ocean’s biology during episodes of rapid climate change
The selected student will simulate past events of rapid climate change with an Earth System Climate Model and compare the simulated changes in biological productivity with existing data from sediment cores.
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UNSW5: Convective cloud top vertical velocity estimations over Northern Australia
Convective vertical velocity is crucial for understanding cloud-precipitation systems, yet direct observations of convective vertical velocity are currently limited. In this project, you will estimate convective cloud top vertical velocity using Himawari-8/9 satellite data available at 2 km resolution every 10 minutes over Northern Australia since July 2015.
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PhD Opportunity: Ocean heat recycling during El Niño events
Using novel techniques developed by the supervisory team, the PhD candidate will evaluate the role of diabatic processes in the ENSO cycle, and how they may change in the future, using new observations and state-of-the-art model simulations. This research is critical to improving our ability to project future climate change.
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CLEX officially launched at UNSW
The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes was officially launched on Tuesday, April 10, at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) by the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation, The Hon. Craig Laundy MP.
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