Climate & Weather Forecasting

CSIRO Land and Water is researching ways to better manage Australia's land and water resources, and improve the quality of our natural and built environments.

The Wealth from Oceans Flagship, together with its research partners, is providing Australia with a key capacity to discover, protect and realise the benefits of our ocean territories.

A new study will reveal whether major changes to Western Australia’s climate are due to human activities and if they will persist and intensify with increasing greenhouse gas levels.

The impact that human-generated and natural atmospheric particles (aerosols) could be having on Australia’s climate will be discussed next week in Canberra at a workshop involving some of the world’s leading experts in the area.

CSIRO researchers are developing new analysis techniques to gain insights into the complex behaviour of physical systems for a range of practical applications.

CSIRO is addressing the security and counter-terrorism issues facing Australia with dedicated research and development programs to protect our country from terrorism, crime, invasive diseases and pests, and threats to our civil infrastructure and business community.

We examine the environmental impacts of irrigated and rain-fed agriculture to improve the quality of our land and water resources in rural regions.

Urban water research aims to use recycling and reclamation technologies to turn stormwater, wastewater and contaminated water into usable resources.

Discover how the BLUElink> ocean forecasting project will benefit a wide range of marine users in this video (5:30).

A video showing the BLUElink> ocean forecasting model, which was run in hindcast mode for the period 1992-2001. (3:00)

Based in Toowoomba, Queensland, the Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU) is a collaborative organisation with researchers from CSIRO, the University Of Queensland and the Queensland Departments of Primary Industries and Fisheries and Natural Resources and Mines.

CSIRO’s Aspendale laboratories undertake research into the atmospheric environment, including atmospheric pollution and the prediction of climate, weather and ocean processes.

This article from Farming Ahead contains four stories on tiger prawn breeding, water resources in forests, models to enhance water planning and linking drought to El Nino. (1 page)

This article from Farming Ahead contains four stories on the use of remote sensing in forest management, the devlopment of nitrogen-use-efficient grains, changes in the risk area for South Australian cropping and changing rainfall patterns. (1 page)

The oceans are the largest repository of heat on Earth, with a capacity 1 000 times greater than the atmosphere. This heat is distributed around the globe by ocean currents referred to as the ‘conveyor belt’. This circulation influences, and is influenced by, the climate.

Learn about the methods used to calculate fire danger warnings, published daily during the fire season to help authorities distribute firefighting resources and to assist the community in protecting lives and property.