Journal article
Large scale and sub-regional connections in the lead up to summer heat wave and extreme rainfall events in eastern Australia
G Boschat, A Pezza, I Simmonds, S Perkins, T Cowan, A Purich
Climate Dynamics | Published : 2015
Abstract
Australia has been exposed to a vast array of extreme weather regimes over the past few years, and the frequency and intensity of these events are expected to increase as a result of anthropogenic climate change. However, the predictability of extreme droughts, heat waves (HWs), bushfires and floods, is still hampered by our inability to fully understand how these weather systems interact with each other and with the climate system. This study brings new insight into the regional and large scale dynamics of some extreme events in Australia, by describing and comparing the climate signature of summer HWs and extreme rainfall events which have occurred in the states of Victoria and Queensland ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work has been financially supported by the ARC discovery grant number DP120103950 to Dr A. Pezza. Tim Cowan and Ariaan Purich are supported by the Goyder Institute for Water Research, and the Australian Climate Change Science Program. Dr S. Perkins is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, grant number CE110001028. Graphics have been prepared using the SAXO package of Dr S. Masson, and we would like to thank Dr P. Terray for the use of his STATPACK statistical set of tools. Finally, we also thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments that improved this paper.