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Rainfall in a changing climate 2015 Stormwater Victoria Conference
Karl Braganza Bureau of Meteorology Climate Monitoring Manager
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Natural variability: El Niño and La Niña
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‘…of droughts and flooding rains’
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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation
La Niña El Niño Neutral phase
Nino3.4
SOI
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The Indian Ocean Dipole
Negative phase Neutral phase Positive phase
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Composite impact of El Niño and La Niña events on Australian rainfall
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La Niña events and Australian rainfall
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La Niña events and Australian rainfall
All significant La Niña events result in widespread above-average rainfall in Australia.
Jun 1916 – Jan 1918 Apr 1954 – Jun 1957
Jan 1973 – Mar 1976 Feb 2010 – Feb 2011
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El Niño events and Australian rainfall
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Major Australian droughts
Drought in Australia varies from event to event. Drought is spatially heterogeneous and varies significantly in its seasonal characteristics.
Federation Drought World War II Drought
Millennium Drought Current QLD Drought
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CO2 (ppm)
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Carbon dioxide concentrations over the last 800,000 years
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations reached 395 parts per million in 2013
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Long-term rainfall changes
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Intensification of the hydrological cycle
• Rainfall will increase in the tropics (monsoonal regions)
• Rainfall will be more intense (heavy rainfall)
• General decreases in rainfall will occur over the subtropics
• Even in areas where average rainfall decreases, rainfall intensity is projected to increase
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Global annual sea surface temperature anomalies
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Global sea surface temperature
• 2014 sea surface temperatures — relative to the 1961-1990 average
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Global sea surface temperature
• 1854 sea surface temperatures — relative to the 1961-1990 average
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Northern wet season (Oct-Apr) rainfall deciles since 1995-96
Increased rainfall?
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Annual rainfall– Australia
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Sea surface temperatures have been the highest on record around Australia for the past three years
The warmest surface temperatures during 2010 and 2011 were in regions that drive Australian rainfall
Australian sea surface temperature deciles for
spring and summer
2010–2011
Australian sea surface temperature deciles for
spring and summer
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Australian Spring and Summer Rainfall
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Twin La Niñas of 2010 to 2012 and record Australian rainfall
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Intensification of the hydrological cycle
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Darwin: wettest day (367.6mm); wettest week and
wettest month in February
Tropical cyclone Yasi
Double average rainfall around Brisbane for spring and summer
Victoria: Flooding Dec, Jan, Feb
Southwest WA: Driest year on record, periods of
extreme heat
Carnarvon: Flooding mid December
• Record warm ocean temperatures
• Record rainfall and humidity
• Record extreme rainfall
• Major flooding across northern and eastern Australia
• Large and powerful tropical cyclone
Record Australian floods 2010–2011
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Tropical low developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria from 17 January
Made landfall as a Cat 1 storm on 21 January near Kowanyama (western Cape York Peninsula)
Torrential rain followed the ex-cyclone south over following days, peaking at Tully with ~1000 mm for the event, 632 mm in 48 hours
Extensive flooding along coastal rivers, with 6 recorded deaths
Tropical cyclone Oswald
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21 April 2015 22 April 2015
1 May 2015 2 May 2015 Stations with white circle outlines are daily rainfall records for that month
Recent high intensity East Coast Low events April 2015 highest rainfall totals:
• 535.0 mm (month) at Maitland Belmore Bridge (Hunter River) in NSW
• 307.5 mm at Maitland Belmore Bridge (Hunter River) on the 22nd
May 2015 highest rainfall totals (month-to-date):
• 366 mm at Morayfield Alert in QLD
• 323 mm at Bowra Sugarloaf in NSW
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Southern wet season (Apr-Nov) rainfall deciles since 1996
Drying across the south
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An increase in fire weather
Forest Fire Danger Index at Melbourne Airport since 1963
Annual cumulative FFDI increased with statistical significance at 16 of 38 climate reference sites from 1973–2010 Extreme fire-weather days have become more extreme at 24 of the 38 locations since the 1970s
Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) Solid circles represent statistically
significant increases in extreme fire weather days
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Black Saturday heatwave and bushfires
• Record heatwave across southeastern Australia
• Severe and prolonged drought • Record daytime maximum temperatures
• Record night-time minimum temperatures • Prolonged drought (record breaking in some
aspects) • Record fire danger Black Saturday:
173 deaths, 414 serious injuries, total cost of ~$5 billion
• 374 deaths from extreme heat
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Future projections
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Explaining uncertainty, lessons from medicine: diagnosis versus prognosis
Prognosis: the likely outcome of one's current standing. In climate science, this is a climate projection or future climate scenario.
Diagnosis: is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. In climate science, this is called attribution.
Prognoses with ill-defined timelines, intermittent crises, or sudden, unpredictable crises are common in medicine.
Prognoses can be very accurate when applied to large populations. It is much harder to translate this into a prognosis for an individual patient.
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The physical uncertainty cascade
CO2 emissions
global climate
sensitivity
global climate change
continental scale climate
change
regional climate change
specific localised impacts
The more localised and specific impacts are the least certain ones.
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Australian climate projections for 2100
RCP2.6 RCP2.6 RCP8.5 RCP8.5
temperature rainfall
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Potential change in climate zones
Climatological rainfall map based on around 2 degrees of warming and more than 20% drier
Clare, South Australia Yarra Valley, Victoria
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Climatological rainfall map based on around 2 degrees of warming and more than 20% drier
Central Darling, NSW
Potential change in climate zones
Clare, South Australia
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Thanks…
Karl BraganzaClimate Monitoring Manager
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