"The award-winning documentary “Adapting to a Changing Climate” highlights the growing recognition of the need for adaptation to climate impacts around the world. It has [...]

Climate Change impacts on flooding and coastal erosion are a challenge and risk for Defra and Operating Authorities (i.e. Environment Agency, Local Authorities and Intern[...]

Extreme sea levels are likely to increase in the future with an expected accelerated rise in mean sea level and through possible changes in storminess. Society is becomin[...]

Any warming of our planet will inevitably lead to a higher sea level due to thermal expansion of ocean water and melting of ice stored on the land in glaciers and ice she[...]

The summer king tide event forecast for 12 January was the largest predicted tide for 2009 that would be visible during daylight hours. This presented a wonderful opportu[...]

6 Protected areas are a crucial component of strategies for conserving biodiversity; however, their selection and design are usually not informed about the impacts of cli[...]

A landmark regional analysis of the impacts of climate change on Australia’s biodiversity and National Reserve System (NRS) was recently undertaken by CSIRO. It included [...]

In Antarctica, the seasonal growth and decay of sea ice is one of the greatest changes on the surface of the Earth, and one that has an extraordinary influence on ocean c[...]

As an island nation with some 85% of the population residing within 50 km of the coast, Australia faces significant threats into the future from sea level rise. Further, [...]

This Technical Paper is intended as a primer on the climate system and simple climate models (SCMs), and has two objectives: (a) to explain how SCMs work, the processes t[...]