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Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub

  • Home
  • About
    • The Hub
    • Leadership and governance
    • PhD affiliate initiative
    • NESP
    • ACCSP
  • Who benefits?
    • Researchers
    • Government
    • Private sector
    • Indigenous communities
  • Climate Challenges
    • Hydroclimate and water resources
    • Food security, ecosystems and natural resource management
    • Carbon cycle and future warming
    • Changes in coastal climate
    • Extremes and disaster risk management
  • Our research
    • Research priorities
    • Current projects
    • Completed projects
  • Resources
    • Science webinars
    • Training
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Changes in coastal climate

High-rise buildings along a Gold Coast beach

Coast iconThe challenge

Australia’s coastal zone is economically, culturally, socially and environmentally important. Most of Australia’s population and infrastructure is located here, along with a range of unique coastal and marine ecosystems.

In a changing climate Australia’s coasts are vulnerable to rising sea levels, more frequent and intense storms, ocean acidification and changes in rainfall, run-off, wave size and direction, and ocean currents. Impacts include shoreline erosion, flooding and saltwater inundation, as well as damage from storm surges and extreme weather events.

High-rise buildings along a Gold Coast beach

How the ESCC Hub is meeting the challenge

Improving our understanding of coastal and climate processes will provide coastal planners, developers and decision makers with the information they need to minimise risks now and in the future, and respond to the unavoidable impacts.

 


The following research projects are helping to meet this challenge.

  • Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk

    8 February 2019 Matthew Fraser, University of Western Australia; Ana Sequeira, University of Western Australia; Brendan Paul Burns, UNSW; Diana+

  • Breathing new life into old tide records

    A project to digitise old tide records will enable analysis of how extreme sea levels along Australia’s coastline have changed over time – and you can be involved!

  • Understanding coastal hazards to reduce impacts

    Our research into sea level, storm surges and waves will inform policy, planning and development decisions that will minimise the economic, environmental and human cost of coastal hazards.

  • International benchmarking of Australia’s climate model

  • Understanding climate variability and extremes

  • Decadal prediction and the predictability of marine heatwaves

  • Understanding ocean heat uptake

  • Improving modelling of weather and climate extremes

  • Improving accessibility of regional climate projections

  • Understanding coastal hazards

  • National Centre for Coasts and Climate

  • Developing local government sea-level projections

Changes in coastal climate was last modified: April 15th, 2016 by realemedia34

Climate Challenges

  • Hydroclimate and water resources

  • Heads of wheat with blue sky background

    Food security, ecosystems and natural resource management

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    Carbon cycle and future warming

  • High-rise buildings along a Gold Coast beach

    Changes in coastal climate

  • Brown flood water over a road with flood depth indicators

    Extremes and disaster risk management

The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub is funded by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, with co-investment from the following partner agencies.


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