PhD student Linden Ashcroft came across a rare meteorological phenomenon when looking through some early instrumental data given to the SEARCH project by a former CSIRO scientist Derek Reid. Derek Reid One of the scientists who conducted pioneering research into early instrumental data in Australia was Derek Reid. Before his retirement from CSIRO in 2008, … Continue reading A moonbow is uncovered
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In the media: First settlers battled weather extremes
Australia's first European settlers had good reason to complain about the weather, according to a landmark Australian climate history project. Lead academics on the SEARCH project, Dr Joelle Gergis and Prof David Karoly recently conducted an analysis of the journals of Lieutenant William Dawes, outlining temperature conditions at Sydney Harbour in the early days of … Continue reading In the media: First settlers battled weather extremes
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