Australian researchers from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have produced a remarkable high-resolution animation of the largest El Niño ever recorded. It is so detailed that it took 30,000 computer hours crunching ocean model data on Australia’s most powerful supercomputer, …
Read More »Record hot year may be the new normal by 2025
The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be just another average year by 2025 if carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, according to new research published in the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. And no matter what action we take, human activities had already locked in …
Read More »ARC funds the extreme edge of climate research
The Australian Research Council has funded a new Centre of Excellence to transform the direction of Australian climate research and help us to understand and reduce the country’s vulnerability to climate extremes. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes led by Prof Andy Pitman will focus on quantifying and …
Read More »10 tips to write best opinion piece people read until the end
If you've been taught to write scientific papers or essays, forget all of them. Because here I will discuss some tips on how to write opinions (or journalists usually call it “op-ed”) that people will talk about or read. What you need to remember is that you usually only need …
Read More »Great Barrier Reef bleaching would be almost impossible without climate change
by Andrew King, David Karoly, Mitchell Black, Ove Hoeg-Guldberg, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick This story first appeared in The Conversation Picture: Agincourt Reef by Robert Lindsell (CC BY 2.0) The worst bleaching event on record has affected corals across the Great Barrier Reef in the last few months. As of the end of March, a …
Read More »Extreme coral bleaching may be new normal by 2034
Animation: Sea surface temperatures in March 2016 by Mitchell Black. Picture (left): CC BY 2.0) Human caused climate change made the extreme ocean temperatures that led to the massive bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef this year at least 175 times more likely. Climate change is very likely to make the …
Read More »Barrier reef attribution study: Data and methodology
Picture: Great Barrier Reef by Eulinky (CC BY 2.0) The methodology described here closely follows that used in Lewis and Karoly (2013) and King et al. (2015). A full pdf of this Data and Methodology can be downloaded here as a pdf. Data The Coral Sea region area-average monthly mean sea surface temperature (SST) …
Read More »Plants boost extreme temperatures by 5°C
Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3°C to 5°C warmer than previously estimated by the middle of the century – all because of the way plants on the ground respond to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This projected …
Read More »Biography of Sanaa Hobeichi
Sanaa Hobeichi PhD Student UNSW Email: Supervisors: Dr Gab Abramowitz, Dr Jason Evans Biography Sanaa started her PhD in August 2015 at the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW. During her PhD, she will assess the uncertainty of a range of observation datasets, Land surface model outputs and reanalysis products …
Read More »Biography of Dr Joan Llort
Dr Joan Llort Research Associate University of Tasmania Email: – BSc Fundamental Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 2003-2008 – MSc Oceanography, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2009-2011 – PhD Marine Biogeochemistry, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2011-2014 Biography Joan is a researcher from …
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