Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101347

Funded Activity Summary

Characterising the hazard, structure and impacts of convective wind storms. This project aims to characterise probabilistically the severe convective wind storm risk (thunderstorm and tornado) to Australia under current and future climates. This will be achieved using a new coupled analysis-simulation based approach to wind hazard analysis. It will also characterise the complex wind structure within these wind storms by integrating three-dimensional data from novel high-resolution observation networks into a unifying wind field model. The project aims to generate the requisite information that allows convective wind storms to be explicitly accounted for in national and international wind-resistant design standards, thus acting to mitigate the devastating impacts of future events.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $375,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Interdisciplinary Engineering | Structural Engineering | Risk Engineering (excl. Earthquake Engineering) | Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Civil Construction Design | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments

Other Keywords

Civil Construction Design | Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Natural Hazards in Urban and Industrial Environments | Risk Engineering (excl. Earthquake Engineering) | Structural Engineering

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