The study found that cities often experience rainfall more frequently than surrounding areas, while rainfall intensity per event is not always stronger over urban areas. Read more: theconversation.com/cities-are-m...

How do cities influence rainfall? A recent study by Shankar Sharma, Jason Evans, and Andy Pitman, now featured in @aunz.theconversation.com, used more than two decades of satellite observations across major global cities to investigate how urbanisation affects rainfall patterns.++

Here's an article about some of our recent research looking into the affect that cities have on the rain. Cities are making it rain more – but not as much as scientists thought theconversation.com/cities-are-m...

Congrats to PhD student Shankar Sharma on his latest paper. The IMERG satellite precipitation captures the urban influence. This is coming from the microwave sensors and is present even after accounting for changes in the microwave sensor constellation.

I'm happy to be contributing my expertise as a lead author on the IPCC Working Group 2 report @ccrc.bsky.social @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social

Check out our new paper that shows the unusually warm East Australian Current in early 2022 contributes to the extreme flooding rainfall occurring further south than it would have otherwise doi.org/10.1007/s007... 🧪 @ccrc.bsky.social

Our new paper shows that the current generation of regional climate projections improves the simulation of extremes which helps with climate risk and impact analysis rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

We have an open postdoctoral research associate position to do research that advances the understanding of sub-daily rainfall extremes and related flooding. Come and join our dynamic team! @timraupach.com external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

It was a pleasure to present to the CMIP community on a method to account for observation uncertainty in model evaluation doi.org/10.1088/2515...

It was a pleasure to give a talk to the CMIP community about handling observation uncertainty in model evaluation.

Submit your abstract for the 2026 Pan-GLASS Conference – deadline: 16 March 2026 (midnight UTC). Join the land–atmosphere interactions community to boost collaboration, advance land–atmosphere science, and help shape international priorities. www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gla...

Congratulations to our PhD student Yinglin Mu for her first PhD paper that makes recommendations on how to best configure back-trajectory models to identify water source regions 🧪 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

New work led by our PhD student Xinyue Zhang shows that identifying dryland degradation is sensitive to the rainfall dataset and the resolution of the vegetation dataset chosen - so consider these datasets carefully 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This work (led by our PhD student Aditya Deshmukh) shows that if a series of recent extreme East Coast Lows (off Australia's east coast) were to occur in a warmer climate they would not produce higher peak wave heights - good news for the region agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Did you miss the Jan. 31 deadline for the ECR competition at the 2026 Pan-GLASS Conference? Good news: entries are now accepted until 16 Feb. 2026. Submit your application and secure your spot at this one of a kind Conference. Information and registration gewexevents.org/meetings/glass

Some good news in the transition away from fossil fuels

I'm very happy to see this study, led by Moutassem El Rafei, of the generation of extreme wind gusts published. Model resolution of ~200m is needed to capture this phenomena agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @andrewb31.bsky.social

I'm Prof to have played a small part in writing this book. A great resource for anyone interested in the Southern hemisphere. Congrats to Andrea and team

This is some very nice work by our PhD student Alex (Ying Lung)

For day 7 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, check out this 'behind the paper' blog post in which we learn more about research by Nic Badullovich and colleagues: "Behind the paper: the role of museums in engaging the public on climate change" 🔗 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/behi...

On day 4 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting a Review article by @garethphoenix.bsky.social and colleagues: "Browning events in Arctic ecosystems: Diverse causes with common consequences" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Today's #PLOSClimateCountdown pick is an Editorial by @lilyhsueh.bsky.social, Florian Egli, @lisgilmore.bsky.social, Anjal Prakash, Anamika Barua and @profangelhsu.bsky.social: "Confronting challenges and opportunities in climate policy and governance" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

On the sixth day of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're featuring a Mini Collection on Emerging Themes in Climate Obstruction, coordinated by Academic Editor @mgrasso.bsky.social 🔗 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/emer... @cssn.org @alainakinol.bsky.social @jenniecstephens.bsky.social

Proud of our CCRC and @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social scientist team in Paris this week at the IPCC AR7 Lead Author meeting: @jasonpevans.bsky.social @melissatraveler.bsky.social, @sarahinscience.bsky.social, @juliearblaster.bsky.social, @nicolamaher.bsky.social & Jo Brown! Big things coming for AR7

To kick off, a study by Hettie Moorcroft, @samhampton.bsky.social and @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, handled by @mfair.bsky.social: "Climate change and wealth: understanding and improving the carbon capability of the wealthiest people in the UK" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti... #PLOSClimateCountdown

It's great to be part of this historic event. This is just the start of the process to produce the next round of assessment reports to guide action on climate change.

📣 PRESS RELEASE #IPCC authors meet in Paris 🇫🇷 to begin drafting the Seventh Assessment Report More than six hundred experts appointed to the three Working Groups of the IPCC are gathering in Paris this week to draft IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. 🔗 bit.ly/4ir09cC

Save the Date Pan-GLASS 2026 Back to the Drawing Board: From Fundamentals to Improved Models of the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System This meeting aims to improve understanding and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions across scales and disciplines. www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gla...

Apply now! Open Call: Event Attribution Working Group WCRP’s Global Extremes Platform (GEP) is looking for new members for its Working Group on Event Attribution. This group helps shape how we understand the role of climate change in extreme events. More information: https://loom.ly/L3EBvlE

I'm happy to represent GEWEX and CORDEX at the Pan-CLIVAR meeting. Lots of great ocean related research happening in this community!

We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪 hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Hasn’t the climate always changed? More info about WCRP on our website #WCRP #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ScienceExplained #ClimateAction #SustainableFuture

We are hosting a Masterclass for our partners and stakeholders from government and industry! Deepening your knowledge and understanding of weather and climate science! 🎓 📌 UNSW Law Theatre, Sydney ⏱️ Tue 2 Sep: 9:30am-5pm 💵 Free to attend Register here: lnkd.in/gCUMhpuv Agenda here: lnkd.in/gHdZHMj8

Did you catch the latest issue of the GEWEX Quarterly? It's up on our website at www.gewex.org/gewex-conten..., and this edition talks about Arctic mixed-phase clouds in models, the ORCESTRA field campaign, the InPRHA initiative to improve multi-hazard flood forecasting systems, and more!

Congrats to Shankar Sharma on his first PhD paper dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... He develops a method to track changes in urban land over time. Sydney Australia shows a clear increase in the denser, higher urban zones. 🧪 @neginnazarian.bsky.social @mlip.bsky.social

Next up, David Bee Olmedo from @nsw-bnhrc.bsky.social and @ccrc.bsky.social discusses scaling of extreme rainfall with temperature calculated using radar data.

Greeshma Surendran from @ccrc.bsky.social uses pseudo-global warming models to look at changes in extreme wind gusts.

“This little report is basically designed to suppress science, not to enhance it or encourage it” Researchers say that the report misrepresents decades of climate science go.nature.com/3J4TOWD

Reminder! The editors of PLOS Climate's Health section are calling for submissions on the theme of Heat and Health. Learn more here 👇 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

From the editors of PLOS Climate's Energy section: a call for submissions of policy-relevant energy research 👇 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

Congrats to Greeshma Surendran who's first PhD paper was just published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The work shows that atmospheric environmental factors linked to extreme wind gusts are different to those that link to strong wind gusts. 🧪

It's great to be listening to Prof. Koji Dairaku in the regional climate modelling session at the Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society Conference. There is lots of interesting work in this space happening!

Earth is losing clouds — fast. Storm zones have shrunk by up to 3% per decade. That’s helping drive record-breaking heat. New NASA-led research featuring @Weather21C shows how less cloud = more warming. Read more: 21centuryweather.org.au/new-study-sh... #ClimateScience #GlobalWarming #CloudCover

I'll be using precipitation observations with a lot more caution after Lisa's interesting talk.

A really interesting talk from Andy. Lots of benefits come from Climate modelling at Km scales but there is more work to do to realise all the benefits.

Just finished the Regional Climate session at AMOS. It's great to see all the work going on in this space. Thanks to Marcus Thatcher, my co-organiser, shown giving his talk below.

Congrats Moninya. Well deserved!

Congratulations to Helen. You have been an inspiration to many Climate scientists in Australia

I had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session at a @cricketforclimate event. The event was talking with South Asian cricket communities about the impacts of climate change on cricket and what climate solutions can look like for clubs - because we all want to play cricket forever!

I had the pleasure to be part of a panel discussion on "Innovative Approaches to Observations and Modelling for Improved Climate Information and Services" at EGU. Shout out to my fellow panelists representing the @wcrpclimate.bsky.social programs ESMO, RIfs and CORDEX