Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP220100606
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Australia's variable rainfall - how dry or wet can it really get? Australia’s rainfall is extremely variable, which means existing weather records are too short to calculate the true risk posed by droughts and floods. This project aims to quantify how naturally variable the rainfall coming from the Indo-Pacific mid-latitudes is, allowing recent rainfall extremes and future projections to be assessed in a long-term context. This project expects to produce new estimates of atmospheric moisture budgets between Australia and Antarctica based on a novel, 1000-year length reconstruction of moisture-bearing southern Indian Ocean storms. This new information is critically needed by water managers so that they can properly calculate (and ultimately prepare for) the worst of Australia’s rainfall-related risks.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2022
End Date: 09-2025
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $353,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Surfacewater Hydrology | Palaeoclimatology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Climate Change Processes
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Atmospheric Processes and Dynamics | Natural Hazards in Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments |
