ANZCF - Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010

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