Australia experienced its second-wettest spring on record in 2022. Record-breaking rainfall and saturated soils across eastern parts of the country led to widespread flooding.
Did climate change influence the triple La Niña and extremely wet conditions in 2020-2022? What’s the likelihood of similar events happening in the future?
Join researchers from the NESP Climate Systems Hub Extreme events explained and Extreme climate: dry, wet, hot-and-dry projects to hear about their work supporting evidence-based climate adaptation and decision-making.
About our speakers
Dr Christine Chung, Bureau of Meteorology
Christine Chung is a senior research scientist in the Climate Change Processes group at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Her work involves using climate models to understand modes of climate variability across the tropical oceans, including El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole. She is interested in how these modes interact, and the impact they have on the Australian climate. Christine co-leads CS Hub Project Extreme climate: dry, wet, hot-and-dry.
Dr Andrea Taschetto, UNSW
Andrea is a researcher working with the NESP Climate Systems Hub’s Extreme climate: dry, wet, hot-and-dry to better understand Australia’s climate variability. She is an Associate Professor at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centres of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the 21st Century Weather. Andrea investigates the mechanisms by which the oceans can affect the climate through numerical models. She is interested in climate variability, teleconnection patterns in the Southern Hemisphere, air-sea interactions and statistical methods for data analysis. Her work looks at the impact of global sea surface temperature variability on regional precipitation. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms of the different types of El Niño Southern Oscillation and how these influence atmospheric circulation and interact with other oceanic basins.
Dr Pandora Hope, Bureau of Meteorology
Dr Pandora Hope is a Principal Research Scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology, an author of the recent 6th assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and leads a large team in the ‘Extreme Events Explained’ project of the National Environmental Science Program Climate Systems Hub. Her research focus is understanding and quantifying the influences on weather and climate extremes to help visualise and communicate the impacts of climate variability and climate change through recent experience using novel modelling approaches. She is now working with Indigenous communities to together develop place-based understanding of climate change.