Climate Change in Australia
Climate information, projections, tools and data
Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO (2024). State of the Climate 2024. ISBN: 978-1-4863-2124-7
Cowtan, K., & Way, R.G. (2014). Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140(683), 1935–1944. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2297
CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (2015). Australian Climate Service CMIP6-Next Generation downscaled climate change projections: approach and summary. Hobart, Australia: CSIRO & Bureau of Meteorology; 2025. csiro:EP2025-1632. https://doi.org/10.25919/9bde-a338
Grose, M. R., G. Boschat, B. Trewin, V. Round, L. Ashcroft, A. D. King, S. Narsey and E. Hawkins (2023). "Australian climate warming: observed change from 1850 and global temperature targets." Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 73(1): 30-43.
IPCC (2018). Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner et al. Geneva, Switzerland, World Meteorological Organization.
IPCC (2021). Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, A. Pirani et al. Cambridge University Press.
IPCC (2022). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, M. Tignor et al. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, Cambridge University Press: 3056.
James, R., Washington, R., Schleussner, C.-F., Rogelj, J. and Conway, D. (2017). Characterizing half-a-degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 8: e457.
King, A.D., Knutti, R., Uhe, P., Mitchell, D.M., Lewis, S.C., Arblaster, J.M. and Freychet, N. (2018). On the Linearity of Local and Regional Temperature Changes from 1.5°C to 2°C of Global Warming. Journal of Climate 31: 7495-7514.
King, A. D., T. Ziehn, M. Chamberlain, A. R. Borowiak, J. R. Brown, L. Cassidy, A. J. Dittus, M. Grose, N. Maher, S. Paik, S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick and A. Sengupta (2024). "Exploring climate stabilisation at different global warming levels in ACCESS-ESM-1.5." Earth Syst. Dynam. 15(5): 1353-1383.
Mitchell, D. and co-authors (2017). Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design. Geosci. Model Dev. 10: 571-583.
Rohde, R.A., & Hausfather, Z. (2020). The Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature Record. Earth System Science Data Discussions. Retrieved from https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2019-259/
Schurer, A.P., Mann, M.E., Hawkins, E., Tett, S.F.B., & Hegerl, G.C. (2017). Importance of the pre-industrial baseline for likelihood of exceeding Paris goals. Nature Climate Change, 7(8), 563–567. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3345
Seneviratne, S.I., Donat, M.G., Pitman, A.J., Knutti, R. and Wilby, R.L. (2016). Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets. Nature 529: 477-483.
Sutton, R., Suckling, E. and Hawkins, E. (2015). What does global mean temperature tell us about local climate? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 373.
Tebaldi, C. and Knutti, R. (2018). Evaluating the accuracy of climate change pattern emulation for low warming targets. Environmental Research Letters 13: 055006.
Trewin, B., Braganza, K., Fawcett, R., Grainger, S., Jovanovic, B., Jones, D., Martin, D., Smalley, R., & Webb, V. (2020). An updated long‐term homogenized daily temperature data set for Australia. Geoscience Data Journal, gdj3.95. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.95
van Vuuren, D., Edmonds, J., Kainuma, M., Riahi, K., Thomson, A., Hibbard, K. et al. (2011). The representative concentration pathways: an overview. Climatic Change 109: 5-31. World Meteorological Organisation WMO (2020) Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update. Accessible at: https://hadleyserver.metoffice.gov.uk/wmolc/
WMO (2025). State of the Global Climate 2024. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Geneva Switzerland, 42 p. ISBNL 978-92-63-11368-5
Updated 1st Dec 2025