NSW’s main irrigator lobby group pressed the Berejiklian government to place the state’s water plans above the federal law and sought to tap water earmarked for the environment. The demands are detailed in a letter obtained by the Herald and The […]
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From 3-14 February 2020, the 2020 Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute took place at the Australian National University (ANU). The unique two-week event brought together 17 of the most talented early-career professionals, researchers and PhD students from Australia and […]
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Another summer, another drought. Sydney’s water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken rivers, lakes and dams are swollen with rotting fish. Governments, irrigators and environmentalists blame each other for the drought, or just blame […]
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The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) will lead a major new NCRIS-supported research infrastructure project to allow Australian researchers and policy makers to analyse the next generation of international climate data. The Climate Science Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (Climate […]
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Over the 2017-18 summer break, 14 students and early-career researchers from universities around Australia were invited to participate in the second Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute. The fellows had academic backgrounds varying from engineering or spatial science to Earth […]
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On 28 March 2018, 22 experts from research, government and industry came together in Canberra to discuss the use of Earth observation for a range of water-related applications, including water management, economic production, natural hazards and scientific research. […]
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The question sounds grand and may be a bit difficult to give a simple answer to, but that was the question put forward to the participants at the HEPEX workshop in Melbourne in February. HEPEX was founded as an initiative […]
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New study uses detailed satellite observations to estimate evaporation from irrigation, water bodies and wetlands worldwide. A good part of our global surface and groundwater resources evaporates from wetlands, water bodies and irrigated areas. Some of this so-called ‘secondary’ […]
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The Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute is a six-week event (7 December 2017 – 2 February 2018) during which several of the most talented Australian students and early career researchers work in teams with experts from a […]
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A National Environmental Observation and Prediction System for the year 2030 The 4th national OzEWEX workshop explored what a future comprehensive National Environmental Prediction system should look like and what observations it will need. The workshop was held […]
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We are inviting applications for a competitive fellowship grant to participate in the 2018 Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute, organised by a consortium of government and research organisations. This prestigious six-week event offers around 18 of the most talented […]
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Back in September 2015 at the highly successful HEPEX Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting Workshop at SMHI in Norrkoping, Sweden, I heard a number of presentations and saw posters on the use of quantile mapping for post-processing or downscaling GCM […]
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The Australian Water Resource Assessment Landscape (AWRA-L) Model is a 0.05° (approximately 5 km) gridded daily water balance model developed by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology for Water Resource assessment purposes (see Hafeez et al., 2015; Viney et […]
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The Australian Energy and Water Exchanges initiative (OzEWEX) is a not-for-profit research community volunteer organisation that seeks to promote information and data sharing and collaboration and engagement between researchers, data providers, research users, resource managers and research managers […]
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The latest round of the Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence scheme announced on 9 September 2016 carried good news for climate science. One among nine successful bids, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes will transform […]
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The Australian Government is developing a roadmap to determine Australia’s national research infrastructure needs over the next decade to underpin our national research effort. It has recently released the National Research Infrastructure Capability Issues Paper and is inviting submissions in response. Based on […]
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Update: This call has now closed. A new call is anticipated around July 2017. We are soliciting student applications for a competitive fellowship grant to participate in the 2016 Australian Climate and Water Summer Institute. This prestigious event offers up […]
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Would you like to be involved in a summer institute for the very best students from across Australia? Here’s your chance! If you were at the most recent OzEWEX national workshop, you will probably recall Professor David Maidment […]
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Ecosystems dependent on groundwater can suffer from changes in groundwater availability, for example due to pumping. However, groundwater can be found at some depth below most ecosystems, which makes it challenging to determine which ecosystems should be regarded to be dependent on […]
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A report from the British Meteorological Office has forecast a hot summer for the southern hemisphere as a strong El Nino, fuelled by climate change, takes hold. MAN-MADE GLOBAL warming is set to produce exceptionally high average temperatures […]
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