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ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX)
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) is an international research consortium focusing on high impact weather and climate variability. Established in 2017 by a grant from the Australian Research Council, the Centre aims to transform understanding of past and present climate extremes and revolutionise Australia’s capability to predict them into the future. The Centre is based at the University of New South Wales, with additional nodes at University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Tasmania and Australian National University.

The Centre will work to improve understanding of the processes and behaviour of weather patterns which cause climate extremes in the present, and our ability to predict extreme events in the future. This research is expected to make Australia more resilient to climate extremes and minimise risks from climate extremes to the Australian environment, society and economy.

History
CLEX was established in 2017 with a seven year grant from the Australian Research Council.

Our people
The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is headed by the Centre Director, Professor Andrew Pitman. The Deputy Director is Professor Todd Lane.

The Centre is overseen by an Advisory Board which is chaired by distinguished scientist Dr Tony Press. The Advisory Board provides advice and guidance, and assesses the Centre's performance against the key performance indicators.

Each University node has the following Chief Investigators:


 * Unviersity of New South Wales (UNSW) - Dr Gabriel Abramowitz, Professor Lisa Alexander, Professor Matthew England, Professor Jason Evans
 * Australian National University (ANU) - Professor Nerilie Abram, Professor Andy Hogg, Professor Michael Roderick,


 * University of Melbourne - Professor Craig Bishop,
 * Monash University - Assoc Prof Julie Arblaster, Assoc Prof Dietmar DommengetProfessor Christian Jakob, Professor Michael Reeder,
 * University of Tasmania - Professor Nathaniel Bindoff, Professor Neil Holbrook, Assoc Prof Peter Strutton

Each node is supported by Associate Investigators, post doctoral researchers, research students, a member of the Computational Modelling System (CMS) team and an administrator.

A key component of the Centre is the commitment to researcher development. The Centre has a dedicated Graduate Director, Assoc Prof Melissa Hart, to oversee development programs and opportunities for students and early career researchers.

Collaborators
CLEX aims to develop an international research network through partnerships and collaborations with researchers in a variety of fields and locations.

The current collaborating partner organisations within Australia are the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and Risk Frontiers.

International partners include Institut of Pierre Simon Laplace a the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France), ETH Zurich(Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Germany), National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), UK Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Arizona.

Current research program
Climate extremes are weather events which seriously impact on human and natural systems. Global climate models which are currently used to predict weather are not designed to simulate climate extremes, and with the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events, are not equipped to serve our needs in the future. CLEX aims to improve Australia's ability to predict these events, and provide expertise and tools to reduce our vulnerability.

The three goals of the Centre are:


 * Use a transdisciplinary approach, including atmosphere, land and ocean science, to better understand the multi-scale processes which lead to climate extremes;
 * Apply this new understanding to create new Australian climate prediction systems which provide extremely high spatial resolution results;
 * Examine past, present and future climate events with the enhanced prediction systems for greater understanding of extreme climate events.

Within the Centre, researchers work collaboratively in 4 research program streams: extreme rainfall, drought, heatwaves and cold air outbreaks, and climate variability and teleconnections.