Managing Variability in a Changing Climate Forum

Thursday, June 4, 2009, Canberra.

The Managing variability in a changing climate fourm, organised by Managing Climate Variability in partnership with the Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries, considered how to facilitate the ability of primary industry producers to adapt to Australia’s changing climate.

Among other things, researchers recommended that it was important to bridge the policy divide to help primary producers manage their climate adaptation capabilities.

This and other key themes of the forum are reflected in the following PowerPoint presentations. They include:

• Weather and climate forecasting: skill, value and prospects
• Australia’s climate drivers
• Predictability and prediction of regional climate: Successes and challenges
• Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia: key elements for improvement and future direction
• Sustainability, sugar practices and increasing climate variability
• Fisheries, stock predictions and effort management
• Knowledge and adoption

To download:

To download the video files from the forum, right-click on a link below, select "save link as" and save it to a location on your computer. You will need Windows Media Player to run the "wmv" files, and the Quick Time player to run the "mov" files. Windows Media Player can be downloaded from here, and the Quick Time player can be downloaded from here.