Earth and Environmental Science

Earth and environmental science research has long been a cornerstone of NCI’s user base. Through integrated high-performance computing and data, NCI is a central hub for many of the weather, climate, earth-observation and geoscience activities of the Australian research community and national science agencies.

Two bolts of lightning strike a major city at night time. Lights of tall buildings are all visible and the whole image has a purple tint.

24 Oct 2018

NCI key for National Virtual Laboratory Projects

In 2017-18, an ANDS-Nectar-RDS (now the Australian Research Data Commons, ARDC) initiative called for applications from the e-research sector to enhance existing capability for “a world-leading data

South-west Tasmania's Lake Gordon, with the dam wall visible in front and the lake extending into the distance.

Research Highlights

04 Oct 2018

Monitoring global water resources with new world-leading high-resolution model

Earth and Environmental Science

High-resolution environmental modelling has long been a challenge for Australian researchers, and benefits hugely from access to NCI’s data and compute infrastructure. It requires the ability to

A group of black and white penguins on a large iceberg, with blue-green water visible to the side.

Research Highlights

04 Oct 2018

Stronger winds could trigger rapid change in Southern Ocean

Earth and Environmental Science

A new study performed at NCI has found that an increase in average wind speeds well within the range predicted by the end of this century as a result of climate change could lead to abrupt physical

Satellite image showing the bright blue river with flooded area around it in the middle of a brown landscape. The words Murray-Darling Basin Floodplain During flood are superimposed over the image.

Research Highlights

27 Aug 2018

Understanding our rivers using satellite imagery

Earth and Environmental Science

Researchers from the Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Change Lab at the University of New South Wales have previously used satellite image time series data and NCI's supercomputer to calculate 26

Close up of a stalk of wheat showing the grains bulging out of the head. A field of wheat is blurry in the background.

Research Highlights

24 Aug 2018

Global climate data used for agriculture research to benefit the nation

Biology

Earth and Environmental Science

Global climate change data provides unique insights about our changing environment over long time-scales, and helps us plan for the future. The international climate change data set CMIP6 is a

A map of the Southern Ocean with orange and blue lines representing the drifting kelp in the ocean.

Research Highlights

30 Jul 2018

Antarctica not so isolated after all

Biology

Earth and Environmental Science

Researchers from The Australian National University, along with international colleagues, have used a combination of ocean modelling and genetic data to transform our understanding of Antarctica's

A still from an ocean water mixing model showing irregular swirls of orange and red.

Research Highlights

05 Jun 2018

World-leading ocean simulations

Earth and Environmental Science

Researchers from the new ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate Extremes are leveraging NCI's huge supercomputing power to perform world-leading ocean simulations. They are using more than 500 computer

Two stacked view of the Darwin coastline with visualised wind speeds and directions, clouds and rainfall during a tropical storm.

Research Highlights

23 Mar 2018

Beautiful visualisations illustrate improvements to weather forecast model

Earth and Environmental Science

NCI's partnership with the Bureau of Meteorology continues to lead to improvements to Australia's national weather prediction models. Visualisations of the data output from the recently enhanced

A view of Australia and surrounding countries with a bright red representation of Cyclone Yasi approaching.

Research Highlights

23 Feb 2018

Preparing for the new Bureau of Meteorology Storm Surge System

Earth and Environmental Science

Tropical cyclones are usually associated with destructive winds and heavy rain but they can also cause widespread damage and loss of life due to the forcing of water onshore as they cross the coast

Graham Heinson sits on a stool in the desert in front of computer and other technical scientific equipment.

Research Highlights

15 Feb 2018

Measuring underground electromagnetic fields

Biology

Earth and Environmental Science

Finding minerals in the ground is no longer the gamble of digging and panning for gold it used to be. We now use measurements of electromagnetic fields to discover what's below the surface. One

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Earth and Environmental Science

NCI key for National Virtual Laboratory Projects

Monitoring global water resources with new world-leading high-resolution model

Stronger winds could trigger rapid change in Southern Ocean

Understanding our rivers using satellite imagery

Global climate data used for agriculture research to benefit the nation

Antarctica not so isolated after all

World-leading ocean simulations

Beautiful visualisations illustrate improvements to weather forecast model

Preparing for the new Bureau of Meteorology Storm Surge System

Measuring underground electromagnetic fields

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