This project will enhance our understanding of critical fire weather over south-eastern Australia, with a particular focus on:

- Heatwave frequency and severity and its role in compound events (e.g., drought)
- Foehn winds and isentropic drawdown
- Extreme drying events
- Enhanced atmospheric instability
- Other cold front interactions.

Researchers will investigate the synoptic mechanisms underpinning these phenomena and develop a historical climatology of their occurrence. This historical information and mechanistic understanding will then be combined with climate change projections to develop an understanding of how the occurrence of these phenomena is likely to change into the future.

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