Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663886

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0663886

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Global objective identification and tracking of atmospheric fronts and the role of fronts in climate change. Fronts, particularly those in the Indian and Southern Oceans, have a very strong impact on day-to-day weather over a vast proportion of Australia. Frontal systems are associated with a broad range of weather and climate parameters which affect people directly. These include precipitation, temperature, wind and a variety of extremes. The quality global climatology of fronts to be compiled in this project will allow reliable assessments of how frontal systems have changed, and may be expected to change in the next century. Great community benefit will derive from understanding how these are linked with changes in Australian weather and climate extremes, and to decreases in rainfall over southern Australia in recent decades.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $180,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Atmospheric Sciences | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Meteorology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Climate change | Weather |

Other Keywords

Atmospheric Sciences | Climate change | Climate variability | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Meteorology | Weather

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