We’ve explored the key drivers of Australia’s variable and changing climate, and have used and improved our national climate model (ACCESS) to better understand these drivers and how our climate may change into the future.
In this webinar, Dr Simon Marsland from CSIRO will introduce the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) design and experimental protocols, and present results from the ACCESS simulations of past, present and future global climate that are being processed for submission to CMIP6.
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.
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.