Quantifying and mitigating changes in Australia’s rainfall belts

该项目旨在了解过去的气候变化如何影响澳大利亚的雨带，并扭转最近雨带的变化。澳大利亚的气候带正在移动，但目前尚不清楚对热带和温带降雨的影响是否会是永久性的。该项目将使用过去的气候记录和古气候数据库来评估过去一千年中自然和人为引起的变化如何影响澳大利亚的降雨区，并使用专门的气候模型模拟来确定温室气体减少是否可以减轻未来的降雨变化。预计其结果将为政策和缓解战略提供信息，以确保澳大利亚宝贵的水资源。

This project aims to understand how past climate changes affected Australia’s rainfall belts, and to reverse recent changes in rainfall belts. Australia’s climate belts are moving, but it is unclear if the effects on tropical and temperate rainfall will be permanent. This project will use past climate records and palaeoclimate databases to assess how natural and human-induced changes during the past millennium affected Australia’s rainfall zones, and specialised climate model simulations to determine whether greenhouse gas reduction could mitigate future rainfall changes. The outcomes are expected to inform policy and mitigation strategies to secure Australia’s precious water resources.