- Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University
CSIRO has been the custodian of Australia’s climate modelling through decades of shrinking budgets. Sacking scientists will change this.
When the Gadi supercomputer opened in 2020, it was ranked 24th in the world. It’s now dropped to 179th.
Earth has less highly reflective clouds than it used to, and it’s amplifying global warming
There’s grumbling in the bush about hosting big new renewable projects to power cities. We can do this smarter.
We crave certainty in our weather forecasts. But that’s only possible for big weather events such as cyclones and major storms. Everything else is probability.
Clouds are central players in climate change, and ‘Path 99’ reveals them in a new light using data discarded by scientists.
An article in the eminent US magazine Science has triggered debate over whether scientists should use climate models. Here’s what you should know about climate models ahead of today’s IPCC report.
Rain near Japan triggered a heat wave in North America. To know our future, we have a lot to learn about what drives extreme weather.
For a long time climate models have forecast increasing rainfall in tropics. Now we know part of the reason: clumpy thunderstorms.
Storm clouds are gathering in the world of weather and climate modelling – a discipline that saves lives and property every day and has revolutionised our lives in recent decades. What we might call the…
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