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The Indian Ocean Region
Published in Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay, Victor J. Loveson, Sridhar D. Iyer, P.K. Sudarsan, Blue Economy of the Indian Ocean, 2020
Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay, Victor J. Loveson, Sridhar D. Iyer, P.K. Sudarsan
Climate change: As Australia is susceptible to the impacts of climate change like coral bleaching, tropical cyclone, ocean warming, etc., various real-time and dynamic models are prepared to understand, check, and mitigate the extreme events in best-suited ways. These impacts have already started affecting the population of the high-value fisheries, oysters, lobsters, and large predatory fishes. Moreover, understanding the effects of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) help device models related to the weather prediction and climate projections for coastal communities including fishermen. Even a rise in sea level by 1.1 meters as projected for the year 2100 would give an estimated loss of consolidated coastal resources of around US$150 billion.
Model-based clustering
Published in Elizabeth Ann Maharaj, Pierpaolo D'Urso, Jorge Caiado, Time Series Clustering and Classification, 2019
Elizabeth Ann Maharaj, Pierpaolo D'Urso, Jorge Caiado
A report by the Department of Climate Change, Commonwealth of Australia (2009) provides findings of the first national assessment of the risks of climate change on Australia's coastal areas. In particular, the report discusses the possible impact of rising sea levels on these coastal areas in the coming decades. The aim of this application is to determine if the fuzzy clustering methods can group together time series of similar sea levels in a meaningful way and if one or more series could belong to more than one group. Figure 7.5 shows sea level series from the tide gauges sites. The seasonal patterns in the series are apparent with the Darwin and Wyndham displaying very higher sea levels, and Portland and Freemantle displaying much lower sea levels. Most of these series display gentle slopes.
Climate Change Impacts on Health in Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2022
Nina Lansbury Hall, Lucy Crosby
The projections of impacts from human-induced climate change in Australia are diverse, owing to the large continent, with long-term trends identified towards higher temperatures of both air and sea surface, increasing extremes of hot temperatures, and changes to rainfall (Reisinger et al. 2014). In turn, this has and will affect the frequency and intensity in different parts of Australia of heatwaves (Black et al. 2015; Lewis et al. 2017), increased fire risk (Dowdy 2018), occurrence of marine heatwaves, and created changes in rainfall (both increases and decreases, depending on the region) (Timbal and Hendon 2011; Post et al. 2014; CSIRO 2015; Hope et al. 2017), among other impacts.