Ongoing Studies
The Australian and US Federal Governments recently awarded funding for a study into how the polar vortex might influence drought in Australia. Scientists hope that the study will glean valuable insight into why droughts in Southern Australia are getting worse, and whether or not there is a direct link between polar climate activity, and weather patterns elsewhere. "One of the big problems we have in planning for drought has to do with understanding whether the drought that we are in right now is a climate-change signal or part of a natural cycle. If we want to understand that we need to understand where the rain is coming from."
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