Last week, 15,075 scientists from 106 countries attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna. The week was jam-packed with more than 17,000 talks, posters and PICO presentations in 666 different sessions. The HEPEX community was […]
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Amid the politics, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was originally designed primarily to restore the rivers’ environment. While questions have been raised over the plan’s governance, economics, and political commitment by the states, it is important to note […]
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A large foreign-owned mine planned for prime agricultural land in the NSW Hunter Valley could cause the Bylong River and local creeks to “dry up”, according to an assessment by the NSW Water Office obtained under freedom of […]
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Remote sensing data is being trialled by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to track an environmental flow through the Barwon–Darling Rivers. The flow, which was coordinated by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and NSW Office of Environment and […]
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The 2018 GEWEX Open Science Conference was structured around the topic of challenges confronting our ability to understand and predict changes in climate extremes and the availability of freshwater under the complex factors of natural variability, forced climate […]
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Australia is a continent defined by extremes, and recent decades have seen some extraordinary climate events. But droughts, floods, heatwaves, and fires have battered Australia for millennia. Are recent extreme events really worse than those in the past? […]
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Due to various uncertainties in model inputs and outputs, initial and boundary conditions, model structures and parameters, raw forecasts from meteorological or hydrological models suffer from systematic bias and under/overdispersion errors and they need to be corrected before […]
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Floods are among the most frequent and destructive natural disasters. An accurate and reliable flood forecast system which should model runoff generation, runoff concentration, streamflow propagation and floodplain inundation, can provide vital information for land management and emergency […]
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Flood-related disasters take a significant number of human lives globally, besides causing substantial economic damage amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars per event. In low or middle-income countries, these disasters are largely due to underdeveloped flood warning […]
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The Coalition government’s ag leaders are putting climate change and sustainability on the agenda, but don’t expect new policies like emissions trading just yet – the solutions will be industry-led. Today Federal Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water […]
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How often do we assume that we understand the users’ needs, which may later be proven untrue? At the recent OzEWEX Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute – held in Canberra, Australia – we got the chance to bridge the […]
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Australia is a continent of extremes and has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Yet we know little about its past climate. Our new study uses tree rings, corals, ice cores and cave sediments from […]
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Environment impact assessment (EIS) reports are routinely undertaken to describe the effects of proposed developments on the environment, and to advise how such impacts can best be managed. The reports are prepared on behalf of the proponent of […]
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Land-based plants take up CO2 from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. This is called the terrestrial carbon sink, and it’s responsible for slowing the increase of atmospheric CO2. In 2011 there was a large global terrestrial […]
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Sustainable and equitable water resources systems require managers to understand the pressures and changes affecting our catchments at a range of time scales and spatial scales. Managers need to balance the competing needs of agriculture, towns, the environment […]
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More than 120 HEPEXers from 15 countries descended on Melbourne, Australia, for three days of sunshine, science and applications at the 2018 HEPEX ‘Breaking the Barriers’ Workshop. The meeting kicked off with a warm welcome from the local organizing team […]
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The Open-Loop Tracking Command (OLTC) mode represents a major evolution of the altimeter tracking function that was first developed for Jason-2 and SARAL/Altika missions as probative mode (called Diode/DEM mode).Taking into account this experience, this tracking mode’s efficiency has been […]
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Soil moisture plays a critical role in land surface processes and as such there has been a recent increase in the number and resolution of satellite soil moisture observations and the development of land surface process models with […]
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In the digital age, our capabilities for monitoring Earth processes are dramatically increasing, offering new opportunities to observe Earth’s dynamic behavior in fields ranging from hydrology to volcanology to atmospheric sciences. The latest revolution for imaging and sampling […]
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Most major floods in South East Queensland arrive in five-year bursts, once every 40 years or so, according to our new research. Yet flood estimation, protection and management approaches are still designed on the basis that flood risk stays the same […]
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