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Climate Modelling Technical Report

johnanderson May 12, 2023 No Comments

The Climate Modelling Technical Report sets out in more detail the performance of the model simulations in reproducing the Tasmanian climate and assesses the likelihood that the simulations accurately project [...]

A characterisation of synoptic weather features often associated with extreme events in southeast Australia

johnanderson June 30, 2021 No Comments

Negatively tilted upper-tropospheric troughs are a synoptic weather pattern associated with the development of thunderstorms and severe weather, including extreme fire weather and tornadoes. While various case studies and some [...]

An assessment of the viability of prescribed burning as a management tool under a changing climate

johnanderson May 2, 2020 No Comments

Fire danger is projected to increase across much of Tasmania under ongoing climate change, with the fire season starting earlier in the year, and lasting for longer. Prescribed burning is [...]

Climate Modelling Summary

johnanderson March 2, 2020 No Comments

Global climate models do not allow us to sufficiently understand the regional detail of climate change at local scales. Climate Futures specialises in downscaling of global climate models to give [...]

Review of Climate Change Research on Tasmania 2019

johnanderson February 24, 2020 No Comments

Tasmania draws strongly on the natural environment for many sectors of its economy, including agriculture, energy and tourism. Climate change affects the risks of natural disasters such as bushfire, drought [...]

Climate Change and Bushfire Research Initiative in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

johnanderson February 7, 2020 No Comments

The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management (TWWHA) has been recognised for its outstanding universal values, with many of these values being dependent on specific fire regimes for their maintenance. [...]

Impact of climate change on fire risk in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

johnanderson February 7, 2020 No Comments

This project provided updates to FIRESCAPE-SWTAS, allowing an enhanced capability to assess the impacts of climate change on fire regimes in the Tasmanian World Heritage Area through the application of [...]

Projecting Volunteer Resource Requirements Under Extreme Climate Futures

johnanderson February 7, 2020 No Comments

This project was funded to consider the impacts of a changing climate on emergency service volunteer resources in Tasmania. It employed a 5-stage process to match current volunteer profile data [...]

2016 Tasmanian State Natural Disaster Risk Assessment

johnanderson September 6, 2016 No Comments

The 2016 Tasmanian State Natural Disaster Risk Assessment (TSNDRA) report provides a revised assessment of the state-level risks associated with bushfires, floods and coastal inundation, severe storms, heatwaves, earthquakes, landslides [...]

Victoria’s Alps under climate change

johnanderson August 2, 2016 No Comments

Climate Futures is working with Victoria’s Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council to support critical decisions about future investment in ski resort infrastructure. To complete the project, the team developed fine-scale climate projections for the [...]

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