Can southern Australian rainfall decline be explained? A review of possible drivers

RC McKay, G Boschat, I Rudeva… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Southern Australia's rainfall is highly variable and influenced by factors across scales from
synoptic weather to large‐scale circulation and remote climate modes of variability …

A review of past and projected changes in Australia's rainfall

R Dey, SC Lewis, JM Arblaster… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There has been much attention given to the spatial and temporal characteristics of changes
in mean and extreme rainfall over Australia during the past century. As Australia is the …

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

JG Canadell, CP Meyer, GD Cook, A Dowdy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and
extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential …

Explaining extreme events of 2016 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, N Christidis, A Hoell… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 is
a very low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking. Please …

Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses

KX Ruthrof, DD Breshears, JB Fontaine, RH Froend… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Heat waves have profoundly impacted biota globally over the past decade, especially where
their ecological impacts are rapid, diverse, and broad-scale. Although usually considered in …

Observed and predicted impacts of climate change on the estuaries of south-western Australia, a Mediterranean climate region

CS Hallett, AJ Hobday, JR Tweedley… - Regional Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Regions with a Mediterranean climate are generally predicted to become warmer and drier
with climate change. Estuaries in these regions are influenced by a broad range of climate …

Explaining extreme events of 2015 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, A Hoell, MP Hoerling… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Explaining extreme events of 2015 from a climate perspective Special Supplement to the
Bullefin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 12, December 2016 …

The differing role of weather systems in southern Australian rainfall between 1979–1996 and 1997–2015

AS Pepler, AJ Dowdy, P Hope - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Most of the rainfall in southern Australia is associated with cyclones, cold fronts, and
thunderstorms, and cases when these weather systems co-occur are particularly likely to …

The contributions of fronts, lows and thunderstorms to southern Australian rainfall

AS Pepler, AJ Dowdy, P Van Rensch, I Rudeva… - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
A systematic analysis of the main weather types influencing southern Australian rainfall is
presented for the period 1979–2015. This incorporates two multi-method datasets of cold …