Professor Andy Pittman and the team at the University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) comprise one of Australia’s largest University laboratories in climate science, oceanography, terrestrial processes, atmospheric sciences and meteorology.
The CCRC is a major new research initiative based at the University of New South Wales combining the expertise of top climate scientists from Australia and overseas. Its world-class expertise in the physics and biophysics of the ocean, land and atmosphere are integrated through the use of climate models looking at issues of climate variability, changes in climate extremes, abrupt climate change and the impacts of these on human, natural and physical systems.
Tools used by CCRC scientists include global and regional climate models of the land, atmosphere and oceans, augmented by data collected from both ships, eddy-flux towers and aircraft from regions as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef, the tropics, urban surfaces, the Tasman Sea and the Antarctic.
The CCRC is a major player in the Australian Research Council’s Research Network for Earth System Science [ARCNESS]. ARCNESS provides a terabyte data store of model results, satellite data and instrumental data and uses AARNET for access to models at the National Facility in Canberra. Not only do we value AARNet for moving terabytes of data, ARCNESS hold meetings via ACCESS-grid reducing the number of associated flights and thereby making our network carbon neutral.
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