COECSS Newsletters

Below you will find links to the regular Centre of Excellence newsletters.

2013

Directors report: UK Met Office visit, farewell Mike Rezny, future investment.
Graduate directors report: Scientific paper writing workshop, additional funding for international graduate students, Winter School 2013, student wiki
Centre manager report: ARC Centres of Excellence administration workshop
Mike Rezny leaves for the UK Met Office
A meteorological tour of the UK Science Museum archive
Staff achievements
New climate science laboratory
Two Chrises go to Antarctica, again
Climate science survey
What Sophie did next - climate science blogs
Adrift website goes live
Videoconference collaborations
Recent papers of interest: Continental-scale temperature variability during the last two millennia; Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation.

Director's report: AMOS sponsorship, CoECSS priorities in 2013.
Graduate Director's report: Student welcome, AMSI careers session, Winter School 2013, nternational connections.
AMOS conference 2013
Summer scholarships
Understanding technical environments
CABLE news
CLIVAR workshop
PAGES conference
CMIP-5 data
Seeking student suggestions
Instructions for video-conferencing
New Facebook page
Engaging China in climate science
Nine PhD scholarships available
Lisa Alexander wins another award
New arrivals: Stephanie Waterman, Ruth Lorenz, Mitchell Black
Papers of interest: On the measurement of heatwaves

Graduate Directors report
Robert Johnson's expedition to Antarctica
If Hurricane Sandy hit New York in 2050
International Year of Mathematics of Planet Earth
Test version of simple climate model available online
Call for abstracts at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
Best practices for scientific computing
Choosing the right colours for scientific graphics
The future of abstract submissions
Matt England wins NSW Scientist of the Year Award in Maths, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics
Nathan Bindoff receives National Award for Climate Futures for Tasmania project
New arrivals: Agus Santoso
Visitors: Dr Rachel Stratton
Recent papers of interest: Slowdown of the Walker Circulation driven by tropical Indo-Pacific warming

Letter from the director: Winter workshop, our award winning researchers, video conferencing
Centre manager report: Farewell to Simone, Tertiary Education Management Conference
Graduate director report: The Centre's graduate program, student wikis, student recruitment
CMS report: The importance of back-ups.
Program reports from Convection, Extremes, Variability, Lands and Ocean groups
CLiMDDIR Portal moved into beta version
Chapman Conference report - format leads to collaborations
Young researchers take on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
New introduction to Python book
Ozone and climate change article
Attribution of climate related extremes meeting
Michael Roderick wins Dalton award
Todd Lane wins Editor's Award from Monthly Weather Review
Muhammad Hassim awarded PhD
Katrin Meissner wins UNSW Postgraduate Council Supervisor Award
New arrivals: Juan Saenz, Will Hobbs
Recent papers of interest: Global rainfall variability decreased over past 50 years.
Recent papers of interest: Increased frequency of global heatwaves

Letter from the director: Hobart workshop, building communities and welcome to new staff
Centre manager report: A review of our first year
Graduate director report: Some super problems at our Winter Workshop
CMS special feature: The development of the new Gung-Ho climate model
ERA-Interim datasets available from ECMWF
ClimDDIR project website portal connected to software
Using the services of the CMS team
Centre of Excellence PhD scholarships
David Karoly appointed to Climate Change Authority
Andy Hogg awarded future fellowship
Acknowledging NCI and our own CMS team
AMOS conference call for abstracts
Storm chasing at tornado alley (great pictures)
Annual reporting season
How to spot dodgy arguments
Finding royalty free photos online
Recent papers of interest: Extreme high temperatures increase by 40%
Recent papers of interest: Unusual weather conditions contribute to Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires.
Welcome to new staff

Letter from the director: Building collaborations with CAWCR and other partners
From the desk of Mike Rezny (CMS): Mode development in a community supported model
COECSS completes its first CMip5 historical run on ACCESS 1.0
WCRP names Prof Christian Jakob Co-chair of Modelling Advisory Council
High resolution data for NSW climate impact researchers
COECSS website conversion
ERA-Interim data now available
Online workshop for Giovanni data and analysis tool
Adding a QR code to a poster
Understanding CMIP5
Centre scientists receive awards from Australian Academy of Science
30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteology
PhD awarded to Muhammad Hassim
Recent papers of interest: Thunderstorms could cause clear-air turbulence
Recent papers of interest: Ocean circulation measured by temperature salinity co-ordinates
Recent papers of interest: World first measurement of global fronts