Climate Variability and Change (CVC): Research Areas
- Assessments of current changes in Australia's climate and physical environment for the purposes of detecting climate change and its impacts.
- Studies to attribute the causal factors leading to the observed climate changes.
- National and regional projections of climate change, including changes to extreme weather events.
- Assessment of current trends and projections of sea level rise, wave climate, extreme sea level events and their impact on the coastline.
- Development of integrated approaches to climate change adaptation.
- Tools for integrating earth system science with impacts assessment for integrated assessments.
- Seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction systems.
- Multi-week prediction.
- Climate variability and predictability studies.
- The provision of seasonal-to-interannual prediction products and advice in support of Bureau, relevant CSIRO flagships and a range of external stakeholders.
- Research into the interfacing climate prediction products with regional applications.