A satellite image from the Bureau of Meteorology shows the east coast low over southern NSW. Supplied by Bureau of Meteorology. The wild weather system lashing the New South Wales coast and causing torrential rain and cyclonic winds […]
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The annual State of the Climate report is out, and it’s ugly. Record heat, record sea levels, more hot days and fewer cool nights, surging cyclones, unprecedented pollution, and rapidly diminishing glaciers. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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As the world heads into an era of climate uncertainty, one of the most pressing issues for Australia will be food security. In Australia, many farmers rely on their wheat crops for a living, and the export value […]
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Cyclones are typically associated with the warmer months, and lower latitude regions. However, storms occurring along the east coast of Australia during cooler months can also be associated with cylonic weather – in this case, extra-tropical cyclones or […]
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As the climate changes, increases in temperature are expected to bring more intense rainfall events increasing the risk posed from flooding. Two recent studies published in Nature publishing group journals have specifically looked at Australian rainfall to investigate […]
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by Simon Walker (OzEWEX) The Fortescue Marsh in northwest Australia is a nationally significant wetland that acts as a terminal basin in one of the largest and most economically important iron-ore deposits in the world. In a new […]
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by Alvin Stone (ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science) The recent slowdown in the rise of global average air temperatures will make no difference to how much the planet will warm by 2100, a new study […]
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Source: TERN newsletter Australia has always been a country of extremes. As a consequence Australian ecosystems – and the communities and industries that depend upon them – are, on the whole, a pretty resilient lot. But with all […]
Read moreby Michael Leonard, Feifei Zheng and Seth Westra (University of Adelaide) The extreme rainfall that hit New South Wales over the past week caused flash-flooding and resulted in deaths and homes destroyed. While analysis shows that these events […]
Read moreby Jules Kajtar and Esteban Abellan Villardon (ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science) February 4-6, 2015, University of New South Wales. It is well-known that El Niño and La Niña events influence weather and climate across the globe. […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology CSIRO and the Bureau recently released a comprehensive update of climate observations and predictions for Australia to help inform decision-making in the natural resource management sector. Prepared to inform impact assessment and planning, Climate change in […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology The Bureau’s Annual Climate Report 2014 confirms that 2014 was Australia’s third-warmest year on record, with a national mean temperature 0.91 °C above average. Warmer temperatures were widespread, with multiple nationally significant heatwaves and several severe bushfires. […]
Read moreby Christian Jakob (Monash University) For a long time climate models have predicted that wet and warm areas in the tropics are going to get wetter, especially over the oceans. Observations of the recent past are beginning to […]
Read moreby Jonathan Nott (JCU) and Kevin Walsh (University of Melbourne) Senator Christine Milne’s statements on global warming linked the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu last weekend with climate change. But while there is very real possibility that there […]
Read moreby Mark Thyer and Seth Westra, University of Adelaide Imagine a future where the yearly flow into one of the largest water reservoirs of a major Australian city could halve within 70 years. This is a scenario […]
Read moreby Kevin Hennessy and Penny Whetton, CSIRO Australia is on track for up to 1.7C of warming this century if the world curbs its greenhouse emissions, but under a worst-case scenario could see anything from 2.8C to 5.1C […]
Read moreby Seth Westra, OzEWEX The OzEWEX Trends and Extremes working group has recently been invited to prepare a Special Issue for the Springer journal Climatic Change, on the topic: “Historical and possible future climatic changes to the frequency […]
Read moresource: University of Melbourne The first snowfall recorded in Sydney since European settlement was reported in the Sydney Herald on 30 June 1836, and a previously undescribed severe drought gripped southeastern Australia from 1837–1842. These are two of the fascinating […]
Read moreLisa Cox, Sydney Morning Herald Record temperatures in Australia in 2013 were almost certainly caused by man-made climate change, five separate studies have found. Researchers from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and the University of […]
Read moresource: ARCCSS Heat waves are thought to have been responsible for more fatalities in Australia over the past two centuries (around 4000) than other natural hazards such as tropical cyclones, floods, and lightning strikes. Heat waves in southeastern […]
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