Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140102855

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140102855

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tropical climate change, the Hadley and Walker Circulations, and Australian climate. Tropical climate systems, especially the overturning circulations and monsoons, have undergone change in recent decades and are expected to do so over the next century. However, a full understanding of these has proved elusive. The project will employ a suite of insightful diagnostics of these tropical circulations calculated from the latest, high-quality data and the results of modelling to isolate the key physical mechanisms at work. The research is significant in that tropical circulations determine the precipitation and temperature over large parts of the Earth’s surface, and particularly Australia. The physical underpinning of the changes will assist in forming outlooks for future climate for the ‘wet tropics’ and the ‘dry zones’.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $450,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Atmospheric Dynamics | Atmospheric Sciences | Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) | Climate Change Processes

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Atmospheric Processes and Dynamics | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Climate Change Models |

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