Sonia Bluhm

The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub is working with the managers of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area to provide climate change information to assist with planning and decision making.

In this webinar, Dr Julian O’Grady provides an overview of the latest science on extreme sea levels, and gives a brief demonstration of the newly released Canute3.0 tool to estimate the frequency of future extreme water levels.

In this webinar John Clarke provided a demonstration of the Thresholds Calculator tool within the Climate Change in Australia website to estimate the frequency of future hot, cold, wet and dry extremes under different emissions scenarios.

Hub researchers are continuing to develop our understanding of the processes driving southern Australia’s rainfall, including the causes of our declining winter rainfall, the seasonality of rainfall, and the occurrence of extreme rainfall in southern Australia.

In this seminar, Professor Nathan Bindoff from the University of Tasmania describes the IPCC processes and discusses some of the new and emerging research around our changing oceans.

In this webinar, Dr Scott Power discusses significant advances in our understanding of current and future ENSO and rainfall variability based on research undertaken within the ESCC Hub using numerous climate models from around the world.

In this webinar, Dr Harun Rashid talks about building the ACCESS climate model, Hub research to improve the atmospheric model component of ACCESS, and preparation of ACCESS for submission to CMIP6. Research results from previous versions of ACCESS are also briefly outlined, to indicate the expected outcomes from the latest version of ACCESS.

Realistically simulating rainfall, especially tropical rainfall, remains a significant challenge for national and international researchers when developing climate models. Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub researchers now have an improved understanding of how convection schemes within ACCESS work to improve the skill of our climate models in simulating tropical rainfall.

The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub’s PhD Affiliate Initiative provides opportunities for post-graduate students and early career researchers to engage with stakeholders and other researchers while developing science and stakeholder engagement skills. One of these opportunities was a science communicating workshop which explained the value of stakeholder engagement.

IIn this webinar, Dr Francis Chiew presents methods and projections of future water availability in Australia. He also discusses the challenges and opportunities in modelling, and potential approaches to incorporate consideration of climate change in water management and planning.

We recently hosted a Business Leaders Breakfast at the Liveable Cities conference to talk to delegates about how NESP science can inform sustainable urban planning and development.