Using past climate extremes to guide infrastructure planning for the future

该项目旨在分析2000年单一事件和复杂极端气候的古气候记录，为近几十年来观测到的极端气候变化提供长期背景。该项目预计将产生关于季节性-几十年时间尺度上发生的极端气候的频率和幅度的长期变化的新知识。 它还期望提供关于涉及多种影响的复杂极端情况的信息（例如，干旱之后是洪水，干旱和火灾同时发生）。该项目的预期效益包括提高对极端气候的认识，并改进对极端气候对澳大利亚政府和工业基础设施影响的风险估计。

This project aims to analyse a 2000-year palaeoclimate record of single event and complex climate extremes to provide a long-term context for observed changes in climate extremes over recent decades. This project expects to generate new knowledge about long-term variability in the frequency and magnitude of climate extremes that occur on seasonal - decades time-scales. It also expects to provide information about complex extremes that involve multiple types of impacts (e.g. drought followed by flood, simultaneous drought and fire). Expected benefits of the project include improved understanding of climate extremes and improved risk estimates for the impacts of climate extremes on Australian government and industry infrastructure.