Journal article

25. The roles of climate change and El Niño in the record low rainfall in October 2015 in Tasmania, Australia

DJ Karoly, MT Black, MR Grose, AD King

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2016

Abstract

Anthropogenic climate change and El Niño made small but significant contributions to increasing the likelihood of record low rainfall in October 2015 in Tasmania. Atmospheric variability was the main contributor.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science


Funding Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (grant CE 110001028) and the National Environmental Science Programme Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub. In addition, weather@home ANZ involves collaboration with Oxford University, the Met Office, NIWA in New Zealand, and the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing. We acknowledge the WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP5 and thank the climate modeling groups for making available their model output.