Projects to help Australia’s vulnerable coastal communities plan for the effects of climate change.
$2.8 Million has been allocated by the Federal Government for this planning. This included mapping coastal urban areas for inundation risks from climate change in as Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
The project will be implemented in collaboration with key national organisations such as the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, the Australia and New Zealand Land Information Council, Geosciences Australia, CSIRO, and relevant state government agencies and commercial terrestrial mapping and monitoring companies.
They are also looking at how climate change affects variations in offshore wave characteristics will be developed by combining climate modeling and spectral wave modeling.
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