CASE STUDY 3.2: Meeting Indigenous priorities for climate change information, capacity building and engagement Indigenous communities are custodians of a wealth of knowledge about Australia’s weather and climate. Indigenous knowledge…
CASE STUDY 3.5: Climate variability and change in Western Australia With variable rainfall against the backdrop of an extended drying trend, managing climate risk to water security in south-west Western…
CASE STUDY 3.7: Climate change for councils Many climate change impacts will be experienced at regional and local levels, so councils may often be best placed to manage these risks.…
CASE STUDY 3.1: Climate change information products for Indigenous communities Climate change threatens the social, cultural and economic wellbeing of many Indigenous communities. Traditional owners are aware of changes to…
CASE STUDY 4.5: Framework for determining the net socio-economic benefits of Earth systems and climate change science and services The ESCC Hub supports a diverse portfolio of scientific research and…
CASE STUDY 4.1: Test case for datasets and information for managing climate risk in the Australian banking and finance sector The release of the Financial Stability Board Taskforce on Climate-related…
CASE STUDY 3.3: Climate change impacts on inshore aquatic ecosystems and coastal communities in the Torres Strait Fisheries and marine ecosystems in the Torres Strait are economically and culturally important…
CASE STUDY 3.6: Climate Change in Australia mobile website (a prototype) The Climate Change in Australia website contains a wealth of state-of-the-art climate change projection information, including maps, tools and…
CASE STUDY 3.8: Web delivery portal for coastal hazards information Our sea level and coastal hazards researchers are world leaders in the field and have long maintained a website to…
PROJECT 1.1: Current capability and future directions assessment To date Australian climate change research has delivered excellent, peer-reviewed science which is available for stakeholders through tools such as the Climate…
CASE STUDY 3.9: Practical and empowering responses to coastal erosion in the Tiwi Islands Local Tiwi Island people often struggle to relate the big scales of climate impacts science to…
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 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.
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.
We’ve used data collected from ocean monitoring (historical archives, Argo floats and research vessels) to improve understanding of past changes in ocean temperature and salinity. We also used this data to identify sources of bias in ocean heat update efficiency in climate models, as well as to examine the connection between ocean salinity changes and water balance over Australia.