Articles | Volume 29, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4689-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4689-2025
Research article
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29 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 29 Sep 2025

High-resolution downscaled CMIP6 drought projections for Australia

Rohan Eccles, Ralph Trancoso, Jozef Syktus, Sarah Chapman, Nathan Toombs, Hong Zhang, Shaoxiu Ma, and Ryan McGloin

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Meteorological drought projections for Australia from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 climate simulations Dataset Rohan Eccles https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26343823

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Short summary
Rainfall and evaporation are two key variables influencing when droughts occur and their severity. We use the latest climate simulations for Australia to see how changes to rainfall and evaporation influence future droughts for Australia and show increases are likely over most of Australia, especially in the south. Increases in evaporation are shown to be larger than changes to rainfall over most of the continent. We show that keeping emissions to lower levels can work to mitigate these impacts.
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