Drought, fires, floods, marine heatwaves – Tasmania has had a tough time this summer. These events damaged its natural environment, including world heritage forests and alpine areas, and affected homes, businesses and energy security. In past decades, climate-related […]
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Current climate projections indicate that Victoria is heading towards a warmer and drier environment, which will have severe impacts on the state’s water supply. A recent study by Sonya Fiddes and her colleagues found that by the […]
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ESA and Australia’s national geological survey, Geoscience Australia, today agreed to cooperate to ensure data from the EU’s Sentinel satellites are accessible in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. The agreement supports the Australian government and European Commission’s […]
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Ray Leuning 23 October 1948 – 12 February 2016 Dr. Ray Leuning was one of the foundational members of the eddy covariance flux community and a driving force behind the establishment of TERN OzFlux. Ray was an inspirational […]
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The impact of TERN’s collaborative, multi-scale, and national approach to ecosystem science is once more on show this month, with the release of a new National Biomass Library, National Biomass Map, and landmark high-resolution map products of woody […]
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Contributed by Dr. Meteo McFool and his meteorological accomplices For too long, we have tolerated so called Hydrologists claiming to use their voodoo magic to make enhanced forecasts or claim they know anything about the water cycle. These so-called […]
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At Irstea, the Catchment Hydrology group working in Antony (southern Paris) has been developing research that aims at better integrating knowledge from meteorology in hydrological models and forecasting systems. In December last year, I met Martin Best, an […]
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Global temperatures for February showed a disturbing and unprecedented upward spike. It was 1.35℃ warmer than the average February during the usual baseline period of 1951-1980, according to NASA data. This is the largest warm anomaly of any […]
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Australia is a land of extremes, and famously of “droughts and flooding rains”. That’s been truer than ever in the 21st century; since 1999 the country has see-sawed from drought to deluge with surprising speed. There was the […]
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As hydrological forecasting researchers, we are often excited when we develop new methods that lead to forecasts with smaller errors and/or more reliable uncertainty estimates. So how do we know whether a new method truly improves forecast performance? […]
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PHOTO: Higher rainfall might not be all that helpful as the warmer temperatures will also increase evaporation, scientists say(Supplied: Nicole Schemionek) Climate change could actually increase rainfall in Australia’s desert regions, according to a new study. Key points: […]
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Sydney is hot. Well technically, it’s persistently warm and lacking cool outbreaks, but this run of weather is no less remarkable for that. The city has had a record 31 straight days above 26℃ (and counting), smashing the […]
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Floodplain lakes of the Yarra River became increasingly disconnected from the main river over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. This discovery was highlighted in a new study published in Science of The Total Environment by […]
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Recent work by Acacia Pepler and fellow researchers found that the frequency of East Coast Lows will likely decrease in the latter part of the 21st century. East Coast Lows (ECLs) are a critical weather event for the […]
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A recent study by Dr Eun-Pa Lim and colleagues demonstrated a connection between long-term trends in sea surface temperatures and amplified wet conditions in subtropical Australia during La Niña. Variations of Australian seasonal climate depend heavily upon the […]
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Recent work by Dr Adrian Fisher and his colleagues describes the comparison of seven different water index methods for automated water classification in eastern Australia, using near coincident high-resolution imagery as reference. A new Landsat water index developed […]
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You may have picked up on some news about climate science job cuts at CSIRO. Perhaps you got confused by all the commentary, or did not have time to follow it all. To help you, here a summary of some of the things that […]
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In the climate research community it is well accepted that global climate models do a relatively poor job at capturing daily precipitation characteristics, due to the small spatial scales involved. What is far less known is that observations […]
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As Perth sweats through a severe heatwave, pressure is mounting on the city’s dwindling water supplies. Dried tree stumps litter the baked earth at the edge of the Canning Dam, 33 kilometres out of Perth. It was not […]
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For the Northern Jarrah Forest (NJF) region of southwest Western Australia, Landsat satellite imagery supports more accurate forest sensitivity analysis than airborne monitoring survey by plane. Recent work by Dr Niels Brouwers, and his fellow researchers indicates that […]
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