Journal article

The contribution of anthropogenic forcing to the adelaide and Melbourne, Australia, heat waves of January 2014

MT Black, DJ Karoly, AD King

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Published : 2015

Abstract

Anthropogenic climate change very likely increased the likelihood of prolonged heat waves like that experienced in Adelaide in January 2014 by at least 16%. The influence for Melbourne is less clear.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research


Funding Acknowledgements

The authors have been supported by funding from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (Grant CE110001028). Weather@home ANZ is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the UK Met Office, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science in Australia, NIWA in New Zealand, the University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing. We thank the volunteers who donated their computing time to run weather@home.