October 9, 2024 2:45 am
Published by Iain Strachan
When it comes to Australia’s cutting-edge climate modelling software, removing barriers to trust and understanding for users is crucial. Tasked with answering that challenge in 2024 was the ACCESS Community Workshop, which took place in September at the Shine Dome in Canberra. The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) is a computer modelling framework that contains atmospheric, ocean, sea-ice and land surface models, which in turn are coupled to chemical and biological models. These models are tools that... Read More
October 1, 2024 1:41 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Tapping into local knowledge can be the key to any successful journey, and the same rule applies when it comes to building more accurate climate and weather models. Research organisations across the globe are seeking to better understand the mechanisms governing our atmospheric dynamics, ranging from planetary-scale interactions right down to local conditions. Among them is the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national weather and climate service, where Dr Humphrey Lean – a recent visitor to 21st Century Weather –... Read More
September 24, 2024 3:49 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Thinking deeply about our weather and climate has been a lifelong pursuit for Richard Jones, whose journey has taken him from class-room window curiosity to one of the world’s leading meteorology organisations. Richard is a senior scientist within the regional model development and evaluation team at the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national weather and climate service. And while few of us are able to completely realise our childhood dreams, being tasked with uncovering the mechanisms behind atmospheric dynamics, precipitation... Read More
September 19, 2024 4:52 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Please join us in congratulating our Chief Investigator Professor Steven Sherwood, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. The AGU’s Fellows program recognises members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field. Fellows act as external experts, capable of advising government agencies and other organisations outside the sciences upon request. Steven, who is part of the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW in Sydney and... Read More
August 26, 2024 11:46 pm
Published by Iain Strachan
The forthcoming IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change is a crucial opportunity for the urban climate research community to ensure the critical importance and vulnerability of cities is more accurately reflected in global climate science. Although climate change and its impacts affect the entire planet, both the causes of man-made climate change and the people exposed to it are highly concentrated in densely populated urban areas. Urban areas occupy only 1-3% of land, yet they are home to... Read More
August 6, 2024 4:21 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Dr Negin Nazarian, Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in 21st Century Weather, has received a 2024 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award in recognition of her research and outreach work in the field of urban climatology. Negin is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Built Environment at UNSW, leads the Climate-Resilient Cities (CRC) research lab, and is also a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Negin is an urban climatologist... Read More
August 6, 2024 3:37 am
Published by Iain Strachan
The ARC Centre of Excellence in 21st Century Weather congratulates Chief Investigator Dr Andrew King on being awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Andrew, who is also a former ARC DECRA Fellow, has been awarded a grant of AU$1,034,602 to conduct a four-year project titled ‘Understanding climate change beyond net-zero’. Speaking to 21st Century Weather about the announcement, Andrew... Read More
July 10, 2024 9:21 am
Published by Iain Strachan
Urgent international cooperation is required to provide small island states and territories with the information they need to respond effectively to the existential threat of climate change. Many parts of the world most at risk of sea level rise and other damaging impacts of climate change are among the least prepared to meet these challenges, because current climate models don’t accurately represent such small geographic areas. The majority of global models used to predict future climate and weather change operate... Read More
June 27, 2024 11:35 pm
Published by Stephen Gray
21st Century Weather has joined forces with Climate Extremes to host our first winter school. Not surprisingly, we chose to talk about the weather. About 60 students and ECRs from all over Australia converged on Monash University for a week to hone their skills in key concepts of how weather and climate work and interact. Lecture topics ranged from the theoretical concepts that describe the evolution of individual weather systems to their interaction with large-scale modes of climate variability as... Read More
May 22, 2024 3:48 am
Published by Iain Strachan
21st Century Weather congratulates our Chief Investigator Nerilie Abram on being elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Nerilie is a Professor of Climate Science in the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University in Canberra. She is a Deputy Director of 21st Century Weather, and also a Chief Investigator of both the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. Fellows of the Australian Academy of... Read More
