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BAMOS
Special Issue
As we clean up our world our cities will
get hotter
Robyn Schofield
University of Melbourne
Atmospheric composition effects health, crops, water, soil,
infrastructure, surface UV, visibility and climate. Environmental
treaties dealing with global and toxic air pollutants have
produced significant climate and health outcomes. Banning
of ozone depleting substances has delivered more climate
protection than any other climate mitigation measure to date.
Simultaneously, the Antarctic ozone hole has significantly
amplified the Southern hemispheric climate changes
experienced to date over greenhouse gases alone. Fossil fuel
derived aerosols are currently shielding us from the full impact
of greenhouse gas radiative forcing, as we clean up our cities
and transport, we’ll improve air quality health, but amplify heat
associated health consequences.
Seasonal to decadal climate—and the
UK–Australia connections
Helen Cleugh
CSIRO Climate Science Centre
In the mid-2000s, the Australian Bureau of
Meteorology and CSIRO agreed to jointly
develop a national weather, climate and
Earth System model. A partnership was
also forged with the UK MetOffice. The
result was ACCESS (Australian Community
Climate and Earth System Simulator).
It also is now the Bureau’s operational
weather prediction model. In 2016, the
newly formed CSIRO Climate Science
Centre was tasked with developing a new
decadal climate forecasting capability. Like
ACCESS, this decadal climate model system
combines Australian innovation with that
of our international collaborators. This
presentation looked at the journey to date,
our progress, and the need for ongoing
international collaboration to meet society’s
climate prediction needs.