BAMOS Vol 31 Special Issue October 2018 Bulletin Vol 31 Special Issue 01 2018 | Page 27

BAMOS
Special Issue
Meeting the challenge to provide
localised flood and climate prediction
Mahesh Prakash
CSIRO Data61
Flash flooding and similar events cause significant infrastructural
damage and disruption around the world. Our challenge is to
combine higher computational speed and local observational
data, collected at various scales, e.g. mobile phone towers, rain
gauges and satellite, into an integrated system producing data
for multiple purposes. Towards this aim, CSIRO with its partners
are conducting a series of related projects with the goal of
producing an integrated and elegant solution.
A new synthesis of historical
greenhouse gas concentrations
Malte Meinshausen
University of Melbourne
In preparation for the CMIP6 climate model runs, a new historical
record of 43 greenhouse gases has been compiled by the
international community, led by the University of Melbourne
and researchers from CSIRO’s Climate Science Centre. The
new greenhouse gas record synthesizes station data from the
AGAGE, CSIRO and NOAA networks as well as firn and ice core
data. It showcases Australia’s major contribution to this global
scientific collaboration. This talk also provided a short outlook
of future CO 2 concentrations under the new Shared Socio-
economic Pathways (SSP) and Representative Concentration
Pathways (RCP) scenarios, and highlighted the remainder
carbon budget under the Paris Agreement targets.
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