For Australia’s climate, 2016 was a year of two halves. The year started with one of the strongest El Niño events on record in place in the Pacific Ocean, and the opening months of 2016 were generally hot […]
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Australia’s ski season could shrink by up to 80 days a year by 2050 under worst-case predictions for climate change — but there are no plans to restrict ski resorts in national parks. Key points: CSIRO predicts average […]
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National water agencies will receive secure funding into the future, as part of the Federal Government’s mid-year budget update. Operational funding for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, and water programs within the Bureau of Meteorology […]
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The number of waterbirds across eastern Australia’s wetlands hit another record low this year as dams and other projects in the Murray-Darling Basin undermined river health, a leading ecologist says. The 34th annual aerial survey counted 71,993 birds in as many as 2000 […]
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Climate change made some of Australia’s 2015 extreme weather events more likely, according to research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. As part of an annual review of global weather extremes, these studies focused […]
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New Intensity–Frequency–Duration (IFD) design rainfall estimates have been released for use in flood estimation and water infrastructure design. IFDs are part of a suite of inputs used by engineers to design water infrastructure such as gutters, culverts, roofs, […]
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The annual review of extreme weather and climate events published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society today highlights how climate change is influencing the events that affect us the most. This table summarises each event and […]
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The recently released National Environmental Monitoring Sites Register (NEMSR) brings together a diverse range of Australian environmental monitoring networks in one database and on an interactive map. The NEMSR currently includes rainfall radars, long-term weather observation sites, seismic […]
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Back in 2010-11 Australia “greened”, as record-breaking rains triggered a boom in plant growth that removed huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stored it as carbon in the landscape. But what happened after that? Our […]
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Bob Walker, an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, has set alarm bells ringing by recommending that NASA’s climate monitoring programs be axed. But his dismissal of the “politicised science” at NASA’s Earth Science Division shows an ignorance […]
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IMAGE: VIEW OF MELBOURNE FROM THE OBSERVATORY ON FLAGSTAFF HILL, 1858, BY GEORGE ROWE. view more CREDIT: THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA Long-term weather data is the backbone of almost all research into climate change and variability. […]
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Barbara Harrison from Canberra-based Digital Concepts launched the first of a series of comprehensive new manuals on Earth Observation in Australia during the recent CRCSI Conference in Sydney. The long-awaited manual, Earth Observation: Data, Processing and Applications, is […]
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Storms, wind and hail do a lot of damage to Australians and their property. The 1999 Sydney hailstorm, for instance, cost A$1.7 billion in insured losses. That makes it the biggest single insurance loss in Australian history; in […]
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Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for 2100) would put about A$63 billion (in 2008 […]
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2016 is set to be the world’s hottest year on record. According to the World Meteorological Organization’s preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016, global temperatures for January to September were 0.88°C above the long-term (1961-90) average, […]
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In the second of the AEOCCG Technical Capacity Building Webinar series, Alexis McIntyre of Geoscience Australia (GA) demonstrates how to access the Australian Geoscience Data Cube using the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). The AEOCCG technical […]
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The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) provides access to high-value datasets to researchers all over the country. Many of these datasets are nationally significant, and cover disciplines such as Meteorology, Bathymetry and Geophysics. These are accessible through various data […]
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Since 1950 many places across Australia have experienced significant decreasing streamflow trends and these places are mostly located in the southeast and southwest of the country. These recent findings, published in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, […]
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Fire has been a driving force across Australia for millennia. Indeed, the health of many of our ecosystems is intrinsically dependent on fire. But bushfires are also one of our most frequent natural hazards, with a total […]
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Australia is no stranger to heatwaves. Each summer, large areas of the continent fry under intense heat for days on end, causing power outages, public transport delays, and severe impacts to human health. The estimated impact on our […]
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