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Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub

  • Home
  • About
    • The Hub
    • Leadership and governance
    • PhD affiliate initiative
    • NESP
    • ACCSP
  • 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 science
    • Research priorities
    • Current activities
    • Completed activities
  • Science impact
    • Federal government
    • State government
    • Local government
    • Government authority agencies
    • Financial services sector
    • Indigenous communities
  • Resources
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Food security, ecosystems and natural resource management

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Food security iconThe challenge

Australia’s primary industries provide quality food and resources that contribute to our health and wellbeing, and to our economy. Our unique and varied ecosystems have intrinsic value and provide essential ecosystem services.

In a changing climate primary industries and the environment are vulnerable to rising temperature, changes in rainfall, more frequent and severe extreme events, rising sea levels and temperatures, and ocean acidification.

Wheat crop ready to harvestHow the ESCC Hub is meeting the challenge

Improving our ability to provide multi-year to multi-decadal climate information will provide primary producers, resource managers and ecosystem managers with information at the timescales needed for effective decision making and planning.

 


The following Hub activities are helping to meet this challenge.

  • Understanding past, current and future climate variability and change

  • Developing and delivering improved climate change projections for Australia

  • Water resources under a changing climate

  • Changing extreme weather hazards

  • Developing an Australian carbon budget

  • Understanding ocean change

  • Applying Australia’s climate model

  • Understanding climate change impacts on mangoes in the Northern Territory

  • International benchmarking of Australia’s climate model

    We’ve updated Australia’s national climate model, the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS), so it can participate in CMIP6 and therefore be used by national and international climate researchers.

  • Understanding climate variability and extremes

    We’ve analysed past climate variability and extremes to enhance our understanding of the underpinning climate drivers, and shed light on the extent to which these extreme events are influenced by human activities.

  • Decadal prediction and the predictability of marine heatwaves

    We’ve made significant steps towards developing a decadal forecasting system and capability to fill the critical gap between seasonal climate predictions and multi-decadal climate projections. We’ve also improved understanding of marine heat wave trends, causes, the influence of human activities and the predictability of ocean temperature extremes over multi-year to decadal timescales. 

  • Improving modelling of weather and climate extremes

    We’ve improved ACCESS’s simulation of important climate processes in the Australasian region, focusing on rainfall and weather extremes, as well as climate variability and change.

  • Improving accessibility of regional climate projections

    We’ve improved confidence in projections, particularly rainfall projections; run targeted workshops, presentations and training to better identify user needs and help stakeholders access climate change information; and produced more targeted projection products for stakeholders to use in decision-making. 

  • Supporting sustainability of Australia’s future water resources

    We’ve worked with state and federal government and water managers to identify gaps in hydroclimate metrics and improve climate-water modelling, and have developed methods to deliver next generation projections of future water availability and hydrologic variables or metrics important to the water and related sectors.

Food security, ecosystems and natural resource management was last modified: May 23rd, 2019 by realemedia34

Climate Challenges

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    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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