Climate Change in Australia
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About RangelandsThe Rangelands cluster region covers much of the Australian interior and spans 3100 km in the east-west and 1400 km north-south. It includes NRM regions in four states and the Northern Territory. These include Desert Channels N...
Extreme temperatureRecent increasing trends in mean temperature have been accompanied by a large increase in extreme temperatures. Since 2001, the number of extreme heat records in Australia has outnumbered extreme cool records by almost 3 to 1 ...
The Victorian Government partnered with CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre to do new high-resolution climate modelling and incorporate these into an updated set of climate projections for Victoria.The project developed a comprehensive set of 5 km da...
Downscaling in CCIA 2015Downscaling is the process of translating outputs of coarse-scale Global Climate Models into locally-relevant information. The ‘change factor’ method of scaling observed data is a useful, simple technique to produce region...
Figures and MapsAdvice: It is highly recommended that use of the figures found below is accompanied with the appropriate captions that can be found in the original report.Technical ReportChapter 2 Figure 2.1 (158.1 KB) Figure 2.2 (228.4 KB) Figu...
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The Queensland Government partnered with the University of Queensland in 2019 to develop high resolution climate projections to underpin climate adaptation across Queensland’s regions.The project has been developing regionalised datasets, inform...
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Australian climate influencesAustralia is affected by many different weather systems. Our climate can vary greatly from one year to the next. This climate variability is driven by many significant climate features that will have varying levels of...
EmergenceHas Australian annual temperature ‘emerged’ from the pre-industrial climate?Emergence relates to whether the ‘signal’ of climate change has completely emerged from the ‘noise’ of climate variability. When each year is above the range exp...