New data recording the past 1,500 years of flows in the Brisbane River have revealed that South-East Queensland’s climate – once assumed to be largely stable – is in fact highly variable. Until now, we have only had access to […]
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The CSIRO Centre for Earth Observation will help Australian researchers maximise the benefits of observing Earth from space and further develop Australia’s space sector, which is estimated to be worth over $3 billion per year (APAC Report 2015 […]
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Advancement in measurement technologies and improvements in computational capability have led to complex models to simulate highly non-linear and non-stationary systems. In such a complex simulation system, calibration is an inseparable component. A common challenge in most calibration […]
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I am glad to announce that Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences (RSESS), a new journal with Springer, is now accepting submissions for its inaugural 2018 volume. You are cordially invited to submit your work as well as […]
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Like numerous basin aquifers in Australia and around the world, the Adelaide Plains aquifers contain water derived from adjacent mountains – the Mount Lofty Ranges in this case. The reason is simple: mountains typically benefit from higher precipitation […]
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Quantifying evapotranspiration (ET) is key to understanding the water budget at the regional and global scales. At the site scale, flux tower networks provide direct observations of ET, however, both precipitation and streamflow are monitored with wider networks […]
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The southern states of Australia have been experiencing unseasonably hot weather this autumn. Instead of enjoying a cool change after a harsh summer, in the first two months of autumn we have seen record-breaking temperatures, bushfires, and blistering […]
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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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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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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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More than 200 researchers and post-graduate students from 130 sites across 9 countries spanning the Asia-Pacific region from 45S to 70N latitude will get together for one week, in Australia’s northern capital, to collaborate and share scientific knowledge […]
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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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