QCCCE collaborations
The science of climate systems and the modelling needed to study climate change impacts and adaptation are extremely complex. Therefore, in March 2007, the Premier, Peter Beattie, signed agreements to formalise cooperative research between Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence (QCCCE) scientists and the following two world-class climate science groups in the United Kingdom.
- A Statement of Intent between QCCCE and the UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change will foster joint research into climate systems analysis and modeling, and climate applications. QCCCE has developed the ACRE project with the Hadley Centre, to produce improved climate datasets by reanalysing land and ocean surface pressure readings from sources such shipping records from the past 100 years.
- A Memorandum of Understanding with the Walker Institute for Climate System Research at the University of Reading will improve QCCCE’s capacity to understand our climate systems, particularly extreme weather events, and to model the impacts of climate change for high priority issues such as water balance in catchments, irrigated cropping, and the insurance industry.
QCCCE’s collaboration with the following organisations will also enhance the scientific basis of Queensland’s knowledge of climate change and its responses to it.
- The United States International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) New York
- The United States Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at the Colorado State University
- The Urban Water Security Research Alliance, including CSIRO, the University of Queensland, Griffith University Brisbane, and the Queensland Government
- The CSIRO National Research Flagships Program—partnerships of leading Australian scientists, research institutions, commercial companies, CSIRO and selected international partners.
- Australian Grassland and Rangeland Assessment by Spatial Simulation (AussieGRASS) project
- Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries
- New South Wales Department of Agriculture
- New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation
- Department of Agriculture, Western Australia
- Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation, South Australia
- Department of Business Industry and Resource Development, Northern Territory.
- QCCCE and the Bureau of Meteorology are partners in the SILO project which provides improved access to climate data.
Last updated 14 August 2007.