Supporting Information

This interface allows you to explore the projected changes in six measures of climatic extremes for the NRM Clusters and Sub-clusters defined in the Climate Change in Australia publications .

Get Started

1. Click on a region on the map.

2. In the pop-up, select the variable of interest to view the seasonal bar-plot.

3. If you want, download the plot or under-pinning data by clicking on the links.

The bar-plots show the results from all available (up to 40) global climate model simulations and match those published in the Climate Change in Australia Technical and Regional Reports .

Click on the « symbol in the top-right corner to pop-out the options panel. This allows you to select the map background and regionalisation to use.

An image of the bar-plot can be downloaded by left-clicking the image "PNG 1800x900" link.  Similarly, the underlying data can be downloaded as a “csv” file (left-click the link). Information about the plot/data (e.g. variable, baseline) are provided in the file name (see below for details).

If you would rather explore the data from individual models in detail, try the Time Series Explorer and the Map Explorer .

Understanding the Bar-plot

The data are expressed as anomalies (or differences) from a reference climate (1986-2005). Each bar shows three types of information, as indicated in the figure:

1.    The middle (bold) line is the median value of the model simulations (20-year moving average climate); half the model results fall above and half below this line.
2.    The bars show the range (10th to 90th percentile) of model simulations of 20-year average climate.
3.    Line segments represent the projected range (10th to 90th percentile) of individual years taking into account year-to-year variability in addition to the long-term response (20-year average).

Different RCPs are shown in different colours: yellow for RCP2.6, blue for RCP4.5 and pink for RCP8.5. Results for four future time periods are shown, grouped by the four standard seasons: summer (Dec to Feb), autumn (Mar to May), winter (Jun to Aug) and spring (Sep to Nov). Note that data for the six-month (northern Australia "wet" and "dry") seasons can be displayed and downloaded from the Map Explorer and Climate Futures tools.

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Download file names

Downloaded files are named according to the templates:

Barplots: barplot-all-timeperiods_variable_cluster_baseline_xxxx.png

Tables: projected_change_variable_cluster_NRM_xxxx.csv

Variable codes

Cluster codes

Page updated: 27^th September 2016