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News - December 2007
► New Australian Climate Changer Centre to open World's Weather Secrets
Australia has set up a new centre to unlock the mysteries of climate change and to investigate the resulting challenges and opportunities.
In a joint venture involving the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) the new Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research will provide a coordinated approach to the critically important areas of weather and climate research in Australia.
The new facility located in Melbourne will utilise the research of specialists from several locations around Australia and focus their combined weather and climate research expertise into a new joint research effort.
Director of the Centre, Dr Chris Mitchell, said that the facility would combine the vast climate expertise of the Bureau and CSIRO to become an important centre of research excellence. Weather and climate researchers and scientists in marine and atmospheric research disciplines, from both organisations would work side-by-side to unlock the mysteries of climate change and collectively search for solutions.
“Australia has been at the forefront of climate and weather research and the evolving science of Earth systems for many years, Dr Mitchell said.
“This new joint approach provides a strong focus for climate research which will be absolutely critical for the future of Australia and the world,” he added.
Scientific work to be undertaken in the Centre would be applied across a wide variety of areas beyond climate change, including ocean prediction, seasonal climate prediction, air quality, and severe weather and water management.
Researchers from the Centre would also have access to new super-computing facilities and are developing the Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator.
“These new facilities will provide weather and climate researchers with the opportunity to take a holistic approach to their research to better capture climate processes involving the ocean, carbon cycle, sea-ice, and cloud chemistry,” Dr Mitchell said.
The Centre’s researchers would also work with the London-based UK Met Office, accessing its high-powered computer-based weather and climate prediction program and adapting it to Australian conditions.