Key topics

severe weather

Severe weather refers to any dangerous meteorological phenomena with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
18 Aug 2015	Evaluation of Operational Models for Wind Variability Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (253.23 KB)	fire, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Improving the Resilience of Existing Housing to Severe Wind Events	Resource	save (354.8 KB)	mitigation, resilience, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Long-Range Spotting by Bushfire Plumes: The Effects of In-Plume Turbulence on Firebrand Trajectory	Resource	save (227.12 KB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Understanding Progressive Failures to Wind Loads	Resource	save (193.39 KB)	engineering, severe weather
18 Aug 2015	Modelling the Fire Weather of the Blue Mountains Fires of October 2013	Resource	save (720.76 KB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
01 Jul 2015	Fire Australia Winter 2015	Resource	save (4.24 MB)	coastal, earthquake, severe weather
01 Apr 2015	Fire Australia Autumn 2015	Resource	save (8.64 MB)	fire, modelling, severe weather
11 Mar 2015	Newsletter 3 - fatalities and building losses	News		flood, heat transfer, severe weather
04 Mar 2015	When storms strike suddenly – supercell research	Blog		communication, forecasting, severe weather
11 Dec 2014	You can help wind research	News		cyclone, severe weather
22 Oct 2014	Managing severe weather: progress and opportunities	Resource		forecasting, risk management, severe weather
20 Oct 2014	Managing severe weather - progress and opportunities	Resource		risk management, severe weather
01 Sep 2014	Australia and NZ 'learning from adversity'	Press Clipping		communication, severe weather
21 Mar 2014	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Resource	save (2.77 MB)	risk management, severe weather, warnings
	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through the improvements of land dryness measures and forecasts	Biblio	save (2 MB)	forecasting, mitigation, severe weather
	Improved treatment of non-stationary conditions and uncertainties in probabilistic models of storm wave climate	Biblio		coastal, severe weather, storm surge
	Crowdsourcing Methods for Data Collection in Geophysics: State of the Art, Issues, and Future Directions	Biblio	save (3.66 MB)	multi-hazard, optimisation, severe weather
	Extreme weather: improved data products on bushfires, thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and east coast lows	Biblio	save (764.8 KB)	fire weather, multi-hazard, severe weather
	Homelessness and severe storms: a case study of the June 2016 East Coast Low	Project		communities, flood, severe weather
	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: annual project report 2016-17	Biblio	save (806.63 KB)	fire weather, modelling, severe weather
	NSW Mid North Coast flood impact research	Biblio	save (2.42 MB)	flood, infrastructure, severe weather
	National Fire Danger Rating System Probabalistic Framework: year two report	Biblio	save (3.41 MB)	fire weather, severe weather
	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1.13 MB)	cyclone, resilience, severe weather
	Developing better predictions for extreme water levels: Final data report	Biblio	save (4.24 MB)	coastal, modelling, severe weather
	Investigating a wind tunnel method for determining wind-induced loads on roofing tiles	Biblio		cyclone, engineering, severe weather
	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Biblio	save (2.82 MB)	communication, fire weather, severe weather
	Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact	Project		communication, fire weather, severe weather
	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through improvements to land dryness measures and forecasts: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1.11 MB)	forecasting, mitigation, severe weather
	The response of the southwest Western Australian wave climate to Indian Ocean climate variability	Biblio		coastal, environments, severe weather
	Connecting Weather and Hazard: A partnership of physical scientists in connected disciplines	Biblio		fire weather, modelling, severe weather
	Rapid response report: study of heatwave impacts on NSW Northern Rivers region 2017	Biblio	save (1.02 MB)	recovery, resilience, severe weather
	The structural response and progressive failure of batten to rafter connections under wind loads	Project		engineering, severe weather
	Correlation of peak wind loads at batten-truss connections	Biblio	save (627.64 KB)	cyclone, engineering, severe weather
	Centralised coordination of spontaneous emergency volunteers: the EV CREW model	Biblio	save (327.34 KB)	response, severe weather, volunteering
	The Excess Heat Factor as a metric for heat-related fatalities: defining heatwave risk categories	Biblio	save (529.12 KB)	risk analysis, severe weather, vulnerability
	Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events in Australia Annual Report 2017-2018	Biblio	save (3.05 MB)	engineering, severe weather
	Model for assessing the vulnerability of Australian housing to windstorms - VAWS	Biblio	save (7.38 MB)	cyclone, emergency management, severe weather
	Heatwaves in New South Wales: how are residents and businesses coping?	Biblio	save (381.41 KB)	communities, resilience, severe weather
	Forecasting the impact of tropical cyclones using global numerical weather prediction ensemble forecasts: a Tropical Cyclone Marcia (2015) wind and rainfall case study	Biblio	save (454.57 KB)	cyclone, forecasting, severe weather