BAMOS Vol 31 Special Issue October 2018 Bulletin Vol 31 Special Issue 01 2018 | Page 27

BAMOS Special Issue Meeting the challenge to provide localised flood and climate prediction Mahesh Prakash CSIRO Data61 Flash flooding and similar events cause significant infrastructural damage and disruption around the world. Our challenge is to combine higher computational speed and local observational data, collected at various scales, e.g. mobile phone towers, rain gauges and satellite, into an integrated system producing data for multiple purposes. Towards this aim, CSIRO with its partners are conducting a series of related projects with the goal of producing an integrated and elegant solution. A new synthesis of historical greenhouse gas concentrations Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne In preparation for the CMIP6 climate model runs, a new historical record of 43 greenhouse gases has been compiled by the international community, led by the University of Melbourne and researchers from CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre. The new greenhouse gas record synthesizes station data from the AGAGE, CSIRO and NOAA networks as well as firn and ice core data. It showcases Australia’s major contribution to this global scientific collaboration. This talk also provided a short outlook of future CO 2 concentrations under the new Shared Socio- economic Pathways (SSP) and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) scenarios, and highlighted the remainder carbon budget under the Paris Agreement targets. 27