Australian Climate Service research
The Australian Climate Service is a partnership between:
- the Bureau
- Geoscience Australia
- CSIRO
- the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The service brings Australia's extensive climate and natural hazard information into a single national view.
It helps its customers better understand the threats posed by a changing climate and natural hazards, to limit the impacts now and in the future.
Our research supports this service. This includes science to develop:
- high resolution, high quality datasets including climate change projections
- techniques to better understand natural hazards such as fire, flood and tropical cyclones.
NESP Climate Systems Hub
The Climate Systems Hub is funded by the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP), with co-investment from partners in the project.
It's a collaboration between Australia’s leading Earth systems and climate change research institutions.
The hub's role is to deliver Earth systems and climate change science to inform:
- national policies, and
- environmental management and adaptation decisions.
It aims to develop, maintain and advance world-class capability in multidisciplinary climate science and modelling.
Work at the hub ranges from fundamental research into climate processes and projections, to sharing information with stakeholders. For example:
- researching the effect of climate change on how future rainfall totals will vary from year to year, and
- sharing that knowledge with ecosystem or agriculture managers.
Learning from and sharing information with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a priority for the hub.
The hub is hosted by the CSIRO and delivered in partnership with:
- the Bureau of Meteorology
- University of New South Wales
- Australian National University
- Monash University
- University of Melbourne
- University of Tasmania.
The project will run until 2027.
Climate Change in Australia (CCIA) project
Working with CSIRO, we provide an extensive range of climate change projections for public use through the Climate Change in Australia website.
Launched in 2015, the website gives decision makers access to climate change:
- projections data
- reports
- guidance materials
- training.
The original project has ended. Some extra resources and data are added from other projects as these become available. For example, from the NESP Climate Systems Hub.
The projections on the website are based on internationally coordinated modelling experiments (CMIP5 and CMIP6) under the World Climate Research Programme.
The Department of Environment funded this research under the Regional Natural Resource Management Planning for Climate Change Fund. The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology provided additional funding.