AMOS 2025 Highlights
New South Wales Floods: how a slow-moving trough caused chaos
As US climate-data gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk
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BAMOS August 2025
Bulletin August 2025
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President ' s report
AMOS President report by Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
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AMOS 2025 Highlights
Look back at our successful AMOS 2025 Annual Conference in Cairns with a collection of photos, a short article introducing Best Poster Prize winner Xinyue Zhang, and excerpts from speeches by the Honorable Matt Kean and Prof. Tony Haymet. May this section bring back good memories!
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New South Wales Floods: how a slow-moving trough caused chaos
On 9 May 2025, a trough remained quasi-stationary over the eastern part of New South Wales, causing record-breaking rainfall and widespread flooding. Kimba Wong, Evan Jensen and Natasha Hinrichsen revisit this event and discuss what we might expect in the future.
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As US climate-data gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk
Sharing of data, expertise and resources between scientists in the US and Australia makes possible the high-quality weather, climate and ocean monitoring and forecasting we rely on. In this article, a group of scientists discusses the implications of deep cuts to US scientific institutions for Australia.