Impact
ACCESS-NRI enables a range of impacts including:
| 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 |
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| 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 |