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Dry period in semi-arid central Australia. James Cleverly

December 5, 2016

Australia’s ‘great green boom’ of 2010‑11 has been undone by drought

Xuanlong Ma, University of Technology Sydney; Alfredo Huete, University of Technology Sydney; Ben Poulter, NASA; Derek Eamus, University of Technology Sydney, and Jamie Cleverly, University of Technology Sydney

Extreme wet years are getting wetter and more common. This means Australia’s terrestrial ecosystems will play a larger role in the global carbon cycle.

Things got very wet, very quickly, in Brisbane in 2011. AAP Image/Dave Hunt

March 15, 2016

Droughts and flooding rains: it takes three oceans to explain Australia’s wild 21st‑century weather

Jamie Cleverly, University of Technology Sydney and Derek Eamus, University of Technology Sydney

Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.

Longer droughts and hotter temperatures are taking down the world’s forests. Jonathan Nalder

September 10, 2013

Across the world, trees are dropping dead

Derek Eamus, University of Technology Sydney

Over the last 30 years, every forested continent has had a widespread drought which has killed trees. The geographical scale of drought, and the duration and almost coordinated nature of these droughts…

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