Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103439

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103439

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Has rainfall become more variable or extreme? The trends and variability of global daily rainfall are uncertain. By tackling data shortcomings and the scaling issues that exist between observations and models, this project aims to produce the first well-constrained long-term assessment of the variability and trends in daily rainfall over land. Using extreme value analysis on the resulting data would allow the exploration of the sensitivity of rainfall extremes to grid resolution, interpolation method and order of operation on an unprecedented grand scale. Ultimately, this means that improved return period estimates could be calculated for the types of events that could lead to flooding. Understanding how, where and why it rains is vital for enabling sound decisions to be made by our planners and policy-makers.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $339,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Global Effects of Climate Change and Variability (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. Social Impacts) |

Other Keywords

Atmospheric Sciences | Climate Change Processes | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Climatology (excl. Climate Change Processes) | Global Effects of Climate Change and Variability (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. Social Impacts) | Meteorology

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