Referencing Climate Change in Australia

Website

CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Climate Change in Australia website (http://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/), cited [insert date of citation]

Climate Futures Framework and Tools

Conceptual Basis

Whetton P, Hennessy K, Clarke J, McInnes K, Kent D (2012) 'Use of Representative Climate Futures in impact and adaptation assessment.' Climatic Change 115, 433-442. 10.1007/s10584-012-0471-z.

Use of the tool for impact assessment and the Key Cases approach

Clarke JM, Whetton PH, Hennessy KJ (2011) 'Providing Application-specific Climate Projections Datasets: CSIRO’s Climate Futures Framework.' Peer-reviewed conference paper. In F Chan, D Marinova and RS Anderssen (eds.) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Perth, Western Australia. December 2011 pp. 2683-2690. ISBN: 2978-2680-9872143-9872141-9872147. (Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand). http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/F5/clarke.pdf.

APPLICATION-READY DATA

CMIP5 Application-Ready Data

CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology 2015, Chapter 9: Using Climate Change Data in Impact Assessment and Adaptation Planning in Climate Change in Australia Information for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Technical Report, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia 

CMIP6 Application-Ready Data

Irving, Damien; Macadam, Ian; King, Malcolm; & Erwin, Tim (2024): Application-ready quantile-delta-change (QDC) scaled CMIP6 climate projections for Australia (time-slices, 5km grid). v1. CSIRO. Service Collection. http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/705992?index=1

Technical report

CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology 2015, Climate Change in Australia Information for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Technical Report, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Cluster reports

Central Slopes

Ekström, M et al., 2015, Central Slopes Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

East Coast

Dowdy, A et al 2015, East Coast Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Monsoonal North

Moise, A et al., 2015, Monsoonal North Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Murray Basin

Timbal, B et al., 2015, Murray Basin Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Rangelands

Watterson, I et al., 2015, Rangelands Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Southern and South-Western Flatlands

Hope, P et al., 2015, Southern and South-Western Flatlands Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Southern Slopes

Grose, M et al., 2015, Southern Slopes Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Wet Tropics

McInnes, K et al., 2015, Wet Tropics Cluster Report, Climate Change in Australia Projections for Australia’s Natural Resource Management Regions: Cluster Reports, eds. Ekström, M et al., CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

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