2024 Calendar: Climate adaptation for Australia’s biodiversity November 21, 2023 Climate-effective management for threatened species and protected places works with adaptation professionals across Australia. In this year’s calendar, each month shares the stories of those on…
Developing a New Oxygen Atlas of the World’s Oceans Using Data Interpolating Variational Analysis November 17, 2023 We present a new global oxygen atlas. This atlas uses all of the available full water column profiles of oxygen, salinity, and temperature available as…
Training to answer your climate change questions November 7, 2023 The Synthesis communication and data: Tailored information for stakeholders project has piloted a two-day in-person training course designed to help decision makers across Australia navigate…
RECCAP2 Future Component: Consistency and Potential for Regional Assessment to Constrain Global Projections November 7, 2023 Projections of future carbon sinks and stocks are important because they show how the world’s ecosystems will respond to elevated CO2 and changes in climate. Moreover,…
Drying out: Looking at the summer ahead and beyond November 2, 2023 Three La Niña events in a row and record-breaking rains in eastern Australia from 2020–2022 left a sodden landscape. Three La Niña events in a…
An Adaptation Catalogue for Conservation October 25, 2023 Climate-effective management for threatened species and protected places is improving decision-making for conservation under climate change. This fact sheet details the ongoing work of the…
Mechanisms of Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability October 18, 2023 Naturally occurring tropical Pacific variations at timescales of 7–70 years — tropical Pacific decadal variability (TPDV) — describe basin-scale sea surface temperature (SST), sea-level pressure…
Storylines of the Pilbara: applying a storyline approach October 3, 2023 The storyline approach uses narratives to explore the implications of climate change on particular decisions. Storylines can help distil the overwhelming amount of information available…
Co-design guide October 3, 2023 Through co-design, the Climate Systems Hub is delivering projects that bring together physical science, ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, adaptation practice, place-based knowledge, and policy directed…
Annual progress report 2022 September 25, 2023 The annual progress report measures the impact and progress of the hub through 1 January to 31 December 2022.
Evaluation of Seasonal Teleconnections to Remote Drivers of Australian Rainfall in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models September 12, 2023 This study describes how coupled climate models participating in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) simulate the primary climate drivers that…
Multiweek Prediction and Attribution of the Black Saturday Heatwave Event in Southeast Australia September 6, 2023 Southeastern Australia experienced an extreme heatwave event from 27 January to 8 February 2009, which culminated in the devastating “Black Saturday” bushfires that led to…
How have the latest global climate models improved? September 1, 2023 Climate models are the best available tools to investigate and understand possible future climates, including the international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) coordinated by The…
An Update on the Influence of Natural Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change on Tropical Cyclones September 1, 2023 A substantial number of studies have been published since the Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-9) in 2018, improving our understanding of the effect of climate change on…
Tropical Cyclogenesis: Controlling Factors and Physical Mechanisms September 1, 2023 In this review, advances in the understanding of the controlling factors and physical mechanisms of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) are summarized from recent (2018–2022) research on TCG, as…
An analysis of user needs for climate information and data August 24, 2023 The Climate Systems Hub is one of many groups delivering quality climate information and data related to decision making in Australia. With so much information…
The Context of the 2018–20 “Protracted” El Niño Episode: Australian Drought and Terrestrial, Marine, and Ecophysiological Impacts August 22, 2023 A “protracted” El Niño episode occurred from March–April 2018 to April–May 2020. It was manifested by the interlinked Indo-Pacific influences of two components of El…
Predictability of Marine Heatwaves off Western Australia Using a Linear Inverse Model August 21, 2023 Marine heatwaves (MHWs) off Western Australia (110°–116°E, 22°–32°S; herein, WA MHWs) can cause devastating ecological impacts, as was evidenced by the 2011 extreme event. Previous…
Communicating extreme sea level estimates through Canute August 21, 2023 Our coastal environments and oceans are changing as a result of climate change. To adapt to future change there is an increasing need to understand…
Climate science informing adaptation solutions August 21, 2023 The Climate Systems Hub is an applied science partnership of Australia’s leading climate change research and decision-making agencies. Our research directly informs Australian decisions, policies…
