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Agriculture & Environment

Definitions

A directory of terms associated with tropical cyclones. (Sources: Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Cambridge Dictionary, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Reports and Wikipedia).

Producing enough food for a rapidly growing population, and taking care of our planet are two of the world's biggest challenges.

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Downscaling

A method that derives local- to regional-scale (10 to 100km) weather and climate information from larger-scale (200–300km resolution) climate models or data analyses.