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Tasmania
Australia
ANZCF - Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010
Format
In person
Venue
Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart
Tasmania, Australia
Date
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The Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum (ANZCF) has been held every 18 months or so since 1986. The 2010 meeting will the 18th.
The themes of the Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010 are:
The living planet - Southern Hemisphere Climate: ecology
- modelling of ecology
- physical and biological links
- climate change and its impact on ecology
- acidifying oceans and their impact on ecology
- extreme events and their impact on ecology
Impacts on humanity - Southern Hemisphere Climate: the human habitat
- water availability and drought
- informing best practices
- impacts of rising sea level
- bushfires
- economic impacts of climate change
- extreme events in a changing climate
- climate change and urban impacts
Observing - Southern Hemisphere Climate: observations and data
- in-situ observation methods and technologies (for oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere, sea level and the biosphere)
- remote sensing methods and technologies
- datasets (data processing, data storage, data sharing)
- data rescue
- observation stations
Linkages - Southern Hemisphere Climate: high/low latitude interaction
- climate drivers
- the ocean circulation
- large-scale atmospheric patterns
- ice sheet mass balance and sea level rise
- ocean - atmosphere - cryosphere interaction
Changes - Southern Hemisphere Climate: changes in the past, present and future
- climate variability and climate change
- regional impacts
- forecasting climate
- climate outlooks using statistical and downscaling methods
- long-term climate projections and predictions
- climate models - methodology
- paleoclimate
- observed trends
- abrupt climate change
- communicating climate change