Themes

The themes of the Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010 are:

• The living planet - Southern Hemisphere Climate: ecology
  • modelling of ecology
  • physical and biological links
  • climate change and its impact on ecology
  • acidifying oceans and their impact on ecology
  • extreme events and their impact on ecology
• Impacts on humanity - Southern Hemisphere Climate: the human habitat
  • water availability and drought
  • informing best practices
  • impacts of rising sea level
  • bushfires
  • economic impacts of climate change
  • extreme events in a changing climate
  • climate change and urban impacts
• Observing - Southern Hemisphere Climate: observations and data
  • in-situ observation methods and technologies (for oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere, sea level and the biosphere)
  • remote sensing methods and technologies
  • datasets (data processing, data storage, data sharing)
  • data rescue
  • observation stations
• Linkages - Southern Hemisphere Climate: high/low latitude interaction
  • climate drivers
  • the ocean circulation
  • large-scale atmospheric patterns
  • ice sheet mass balance and sea level rise
  • ocean - atmosphere - cryosphere interaction
• Changes - Southern Hemisphere Climate: changes in the past, present and future
  • climate variability and climate change
  • regional impacts
  • forecasting climate
  • climate outlooks using statistical and downscaling methods
  • long-term climate projections and predictions
  • climate models - methodology
  • paleoclimate
  • observed trends
  • abrupt climate change
  • communicating climate change