Are ocean storms impacting Australia becoming more severe?

该项目旨在提高我们对影响澳大利亚的严重海洋风暴的了解。这一新的方法将利用地震地震观测站连续记录的数十年的背景“噪音”来定位和分析随时间推移的海洋风暴，并确定风暴路径的变化。接下来将进行跨学科的解释，将大量来自地震学的新结果与海洋学和气象学的数据结合起来。我们对严重风暴的认识的显著进步将使澳大利亚受益，因为它将表明此类风暴是否正在变得更加严重，或者风暴模式是否正在转变。

This project aims to improve our understanding of the severe ocean storms that impact Australia. The novel approach will make use of multiple decades of the background 'noise', recorded continuously by earthquake seismic observatories, to locate and analyse ocean storms through time and identify changes in storm tracks. An interdisciplinary interpretation will follow which combines the large body of new results from seismology with data from oceanography and meteorology. Significant advancement in our knowledge of severe storms will benefit Australia by indicating whether such storms are becoming more severe or, alternatively, if storm patterns are shifting.