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 …

Extreme event attribution is a rapidly growing field of climate science with important
implications for public and government understanding of human-induced climate change …

The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become
a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its …

Agricultural production across eastern Australia and New Zealand is highly vulnerable to
drought, but there is a dearth of observational drought information prior to CE 1850. Using a …

Water availability is fundamental to societies and ecosystems, but our understanding of
variations in hydroclimate (including extreme events, flooding, and decadal periods of …

Australian seasonal rainfall is strongly affected by large-scale ocean–atmosphere climate
influences. In this study, we exploit the links between these precipitation influences, regional …

Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly
written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the …

Evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important
record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data …

Island nations may have potential long-term survival value for humanity in global
catastrophes such as sun-blocking catastrophes from nuclear winter and large magnitude …

What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists
use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous …