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Climate and system variability

2016
Marine environment
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Marine environment Pressures Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...

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Acronyms and abbreviations 2016

2016
Coasts
At a glance

Acronym or abbreviation Definition 4WD four-wheel drive ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 GDP gross domestic product GPS global positioning system ICOLLs intermittently closed...

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Introduction 2016

2016
Climate
Introduction
At a glance

Australia has always been a land of extremes. In a single year, we can experience heatwaves, floods, fires, cyclones and drought. Australia’s highly variable climate is influenced year to year by large-scale drivers in the atmosphere and ocean, such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO...

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Risks to Australia’s climate 2016

2016
Climate
Risks
At a glance

At a glanceAn understanding of the risks associated with Australia’s climate will lead to improved action plans to adapt to the changes predicted to occur. Our climate is a dynamic system; therefore, the risks need to be re-evaluated frequently. Recent climate change projections for...

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Atmosphere

2016
Coasts
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Coasts Pressures Greater Brisbane Great Barrier Reef Greater Sydney Indian Ocean Airborne emissions Australia’s...

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Rainfall

2016
Climate
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Climate State and trends Greater Melbourne Broadly, Australia can be divided into 2 seasonal rainfall regimes: the north and the south. The northern half of the continent typically...

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Figure COA6 Sea level trends from satellite altimeters (colour contours) and tide gauges (coloured dots), January 1993 to December 2010. Upper figure shows trends before removal of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signal and lower figure sho...

2016
Coasts
Pressures
Map

Download as pngDownload dataset Source: CSIRO, updated based on White et al. (2014) Figure COA6 Sea level trends from satellite altimeters (colour contours) and tide gauges (coloured dots), January 1993 to December 2010. Land–water interface

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Marine environment: 2011–16 in context

2016
Marine environment
Introduction
Report Content
... and subdecadal variability for a detailed description of ENSO). Variation in ocean temperatures and circulation ...
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Temperature

2016
Climate
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Climate State and trends Australia’s climate has warmed since national temperature records began in 1910, with mean surface air temperature showing around a 1 °C warming since then (Figure ATM18). Concurrent with...

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Climate change

2016
Marine environment
Pressures
Report Content
... on natural climate variations—in particular, ENSO and decadal variability ( Holbrook et al. 2012 )—pose ...
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Box ANT5 Antarctic sea ice extent, 2012–15

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Case Study
... average waters westwards. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events influence large-scale variability in atmospheric ... Because 2012–14 was not significantly influenced by the ENSO, more localised (high-latitude) processes tended to ...
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Marine regions

2016
Marine environment
Introduction
Report Content

2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...

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Pressures affecting the marine environment

2016, 2011
Marine environment
Pressures
Assessment summary

Marine environment Pressures Additional pressuresDumped wastesToxins, pesticides and herbicidesMarine debrisAnthropogenic noiseMarine vessel activityMarine renewable energy generationMarine mining and industryMarine oil and gas...

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The physical environment: The cryosphere

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage, the...

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Biodiversity: Ecological processes

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Coasts State and trends Tasmania Greater Brisbane Great Barrier Reef East Coast Connectivity Connectivity among...

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The physical environment: The atmosphere—climate and weather patterns

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage, the...

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The physical environment: The Southern Ocean

2016
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean is changing in ways that are likely to affect regional and global climate, and marine productivity (...

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Coastal waters

2016
Coasts
Pressures
Report Content

2016 Coasts Pressures South Australian Gulf Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Timor Sea...

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2 Drivers | References

2011 Report Content
... 7 Cai W, van Rensch P, Cowan T, Sullivan A. Asymmetry in ENSO teleconnection with regional rainfall, its multidecadal ...
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The physical environment

2011
Antarctic environment
State and trends
Report Content

2011 Antarctic environment State and trends Antarctica The physical environment includes both the nonliving factors that characterise an ecosystem (e.g. weather patterns, ice coverage,...

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4 Inland water | References

2011
Inland water
Report Content
... 44 Cai W, van Rensch P, Cowan T, Sullivan A. Asymmetry in ENSO teleconnection with regional rainfall, its multidecadal ...
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Acronyms and abbreviations 2016

At a glance

AFMA Australian Fisheries Management Authority CMR Commonwealth marine reserve CO2 carbon dioxide EAC East Australian Current EEZ exclusive economic zone ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation EPBC Act Environmental Protection and Biodiversity...

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