Supporting Information

This interface allows you to explore (and download) the projected changes in eight climate variables for the NRM Clusters and Sub-clusters defined in the Climate Change in Australia Technical and Regional Reports .

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 .

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 links.

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.

Download an image of the bar-plot by left-clicking the image "PNG 1800x900" link.  Likewise, download the underlying data (including annual change values) by left-clicking the “csv” link.

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 model 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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Page update: 22nd October 2019