Experts at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes regularly produce briefings summarising the science of climate extremes. Briefings are available as PDF downloads below:
Latest briefings: The impact of climate extremes on Australia’s marine environment
Why research on compounding weather and climate hazards is important
Can we limit global warming to 1.5°?
How useful are the Australian FLUXNET (Oxflux) data?
Heatwaves in the ocean threaten marine ecosystems across the world
Global crop yields are strongly affected by extreme climate conditions
What is the chance of global warming exceeding 1.5°C in the next 5 years?
The latest global climate models present challenges for generating climate projections
Special briefings
IPCC AR6 Working Group 1 report: conclusions on the evolving risk of drought
Climate change and tipping points
Why are we uncertain about how extremely wet conditions will change in Australia in the future?
The extreme rainfall in northern Queensland during January and February 2019
Research on the Antarctic stratospheric polar vortex is important for Australia’s seasonal forecasts
Does global warming cause droughts, drying or increased aridity?
What is left in the global carbon budget?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report
The impact of climate extremes on Australia’s marine environment
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is working to understand marine heatwave predictability.
Why research on compounding weather and climate hazards is important
Climate Extremes is leading research that will ultimately help businesses and governments better assess the risks posed by compound events.
Climate change and tipping points
Tipping points exist in the climate system, and it is very unlikely that all tipping points are known. Different tipping points are understood with different levels of confidence, they operate on different timescales, can interact to trigger cascades of abrupt changes, and some tipping point changes are irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia.