Impact

ACCESS-NRI enables a range of impacts including:

Dark green circle with a white gum leaf and gum nut branch.Building and future-proofing Australia’s sovereign climate research capability essential to support national resilience and wellbeing​
Delivering climate simulations specific to Australian and Southern Hemisphere conditions​
Understanding how changes to Antarctic Ice Southern Ocean currents dynamics affect global systems
Understanding El Niño and La Niña and how these climate systems affect Australia and regional neighbours​
Forecasting high-impact weather – wind, bushfire, floods, heatwaves – to inform emergency management ​
Safeguarding Australia’s future – long-term forecasting to inform critical decision making across the government, agriculture, insurance and security sectors​
Strengthening global efforts to simulate climate of the past millennium and the future​
Reconstructing past climate – understanding how climate changed in the past to inform predictions of future change​

ACCESS models help to unveil the causes of the unprecedented 2023 North Atlantic Ocean heatwave  

A paper published recently in Nature using two ACCESS models, has revealed the drivers of a marine heatwave that swept across the North Atlantic Ocean…

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A software time dial for the paleoclimate community

The ACCESS-NRI team has added a “time dial” into the Earth System Model (EM1.5) that allows paleoclimate researchers to match the right value of Earth’s orbit around the Sun during different past climates.  

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Menus that save paleoclimate researcher’s time

The ACCESS-NRI team has added a “Menu” into the Earth System Model (EM1.5) that allows paleoclimate researchers to customise the model output by choosing presets of the variables they want to simulate, as well as the data they want to keep.  

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ACCESS Impact as a Global Climate Model

ACCESS models and expertise of researchers helped significantly to understand Australia’s future climate, as part of the International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)

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ACCESS simulations: insights into historical climate change

Complex climate models, such as ACCESS, play a central role in understanding the causes of past climate variability through simulation experiments of the Earth’s climate.

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ACCESS BARRA Reanalysis: impact on fire management, agriculture and energy

ACCESS BARRA reanalysis offers valuable information that have been used in many industries including energy, fire management and agriculture Fire Agencies Fire agencies are looking…

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Understanding the role of Arctic sea ice on climate change

ACCESS models and expertise of researchers helped significantly to understand Australia’s future climate, as part of the International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)

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