Climate Futures for Tasmania: Extreme Events Technical Report

This extreme events technical report represents one of five major components of research undertaken as part of the Climate Futures for Tasmania project. It (i) covers projected changes to the frequency, magnitude and duration of temperature and precipitation extremes across Tasmania for the 21st century; (ii) describes extreme events in the Tasmanian region; (iii) assesses aspects of the performance of models to simulate extremes; (iv) describes projected changes to temperature extremes up to the end of the 21st century; (v) presents projected changes to precipitation extremes for the same period, including the likely drivers of the projected changes; (vi) gives a description of projected changes to cumulative precipitation totals and meteorological drought; and (vii) examines extreme precipitation average recurrence intervals.