(extract from a message circulated by Dr Helen Cleugh, CSIRO) It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the sad news that our dear colleague and friend, Dr Vanessa Haverd, passed away on Tuesday Jan 19. […]
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A new national forecasting service is giving dam operators, river managers – even kayakers – a clearer picture of river and stream flows up to a week in advance. Paradoxically, uncertainty is a key to more reliable forecasts. […]
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Federal funding for advanced climate modelling has cheered scientists who say the investment will help refine predictions for everything from fire-generated thunderstorms to worsening urban heat islands. Buried in this year’s budget was the provision of $7.6 million […]
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Analysis by researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have found areas in the Murray-Darling Basin suitable for long term underground water storage and could help build drought resilience. Water banking – known more technically as managed aquifer […]
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Continued warming of Australia’s climate, an increase in extreme fire weather and length of the fire season, declining rainfall in the southeast and southwest of the continent, and rising sea levels are some of the key trends detailed […]
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Reliable weather forecasts are critical for the planning and management of a variety of social and economic activities, such as water management. To make such forecasts, numerical weather prediction (NWP) models have been developed. However, NWP models are […]
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Planning for changes in future water availability due to climate change is crucial for developing equitable sharing of water resources between urban, agricultural, industrial, environmental and other uses of water. Throughout the rest of the 21st century, south-eastern […]
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TERN and its partners are developing a revolutionary soil moisture information system, which will help land managers better monitor drought, predict bushfires and floods and make highly informed management choices to improve agricultural productivity. Understanding soil moisture matters. […]
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The field of climate change event attribution research has emerged recently and can provide new insights into Australian climate extremes. When a climate extreme event with notable impacts comes along, a natural question arises – “did anthropogenic climate […]
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There is an urgent need to understand and predict how the world around us is affected by climate change and the extremes of droughts and flooding rains. The Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy NCRIS addresses this […]
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Most instrumental weather data that we use to study rainfall in Australia only extend back to 1900, which makes it hard to capture the full range of our highly variable climate. In this new study we have used […]
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Internal CSIRO correspondence reveals the science agency was pushed to formally accept the Federal Government’s approval of Adani’s water plans in a single afternoon. Despite the Government saying Australia’s top science agencies “confirmed” Adani’s water plans had “met […]
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Adani’s groundwater dependent ecosystem management plan for its proposed Carmichael coal mine was recently approved by federal Environment Minister Melissa Price, despite a review from CSIRO and Geoscience Australia that points out major problems with the modelling. According […]
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As heat extremes become more commonplace, understanding the physiological response of the vegetation to temperature becomes more important. Recent experimental evidence – including collaborative work done between Western Sydney University, CLEX and other institutes – has shown that […]
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The nation’s pre-eminent science agency has cast doubt on the environmental benefits claimed under the Morrison government’s main climate policy, raising concerns Australia is overstating its contribution to the fight against global warming. Despite concerns over the scheme, […]
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The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant and most consequential climate variation on the planet. Answering the question of how ENSO may change under greenhouse warming has been plagued for decades by a persistent lack of inter-model […]
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New research in Nature Climate Change suggests droughts may not increase as a result of climate change. This finding resulted from researchers investigating an apparent climate model contradiction that saw climate change projections of the 21st Century produce […]
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The CSIRO has found serious flaws in Adani’s key water management plan to protect an ancient springs complex near its proposed Carmichael coal mine, threatening to further delay the controversial project. The ABC can reveal Australia’s peak scientific […]
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New present-day and projected future global Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at a 1 km resolution are now freely available via http://www.gloh2o.org/koppen/. The present-day (1980–2016) map uses topographically corrected climatic maps as input. The projected future conditions (2071–2100) are […]
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Streamflow data underpin hydrological and climate change studies. Without such data, it is hard to understand catchment hydrological processes under climate change and non-stationarity. Unfortunately, continuous streamflow data are not always available and most gauges suffer from missing […]
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