Projects

College of Sciences and Engineering Research Climate Futures Research Group Projects

Australia’s Wine Future

Climate Futures has produced a comprehensive 'Climate Atlas' of climate change-induced effects on Australia's wine growing regions.

Victoria’s Alps under climate change

Climate Futures is working to support critical decisions about future investment in ski resort infrastructure.

Climate Futures for Tasmania

Climate Futures for Tasmania is the state government's most important source of climate change projections.

2016 Tasmanian State Natural Disaster Risk Assessment

An assessment of the state-level risks associated with bushfires, floods and coastal inundation, severe storms, heatwaves, earthquakes, landslides and human influenza pandemics in Tasmania.

Climate model downscaling: explainer

An explanation of the climate modelling downscaling that Climate Futures uses in many of its projects.

Prescribed Burning project, stage 2

This project extends previous research to include greater understanding of potential vegetation change, together with extreme climate conditions associated with high fire danger, and their importance in making decisions about the timing of prescribed burning in the future.

Prescribed Burning project, stage 1

The prescribed burning project investigated the changing opportunities for prescribed burning in Tasmania in the near future and towards the end of the century.

Reanalysis for Tasmania

Project to generate the best-available representation of historical weather every hour over Australia covering 1990 to 2015.

Future fire danger

Study examined changes in bushfire meteorology and fire danger hazards and risks.