Abdul Rauf & Zeephongsekul: Copula based analysis of rainfall severity and duration: A case study. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115, 153-166. Allen & Karoly: A climatology of Australian severe thunderstorm environments 1979-2011: Inter-annual variability and ENSO influence. International […]

Chen and coauthors: Spatial prediction of temporal soil moisture dynamics using HYDRUS-1D. Hydrological Processes, 28, 171-185. Van Dijk and coauthors: A global water cycle reanalysis (2003-2012) reconciling satellite gravimetry and altimetry observations with a hydrological model ensemble. Hydrology […]

Argent: Information modelling in water resources: An Australian perspective. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 28, 137-145. Hughes and coauthors: An automated multi-step calibration procedure for a river system model. Environmental Modelling and Software, 51, 173-183. van Dijk […]

Chen and coauthors: Using satellite based soil moisture to quantify the water driven variability in NDVI: A case study over mainland Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 140, 330-338. Huang and coauthors: DEM-based modification of pixel-swapping algorithm for enhancing […]

On February 5, the American Meteorological Society has bestowed the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology upon Ray Leuning  for “significantly advancing our understanding of plant functioning, from stomata to terrestrial biosphere, and outstanding contributions to the global flux network through advancing […]

Source: National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) NCI is pleased to announce increased support for climate change and earth system science research, benefiting both the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, and the major agency partners of NCI, namely BoM […]

Source: ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Extremely hot temperatures over land have dramatically and unequivocally increased in number and area despite claims that the rise in global average temperatures has slowed over the past 10 to […]

By Bureau of Meteorology (ENSO Wrap-Up, 25 March 2014) While the tropical Pacific Ocean remains El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral, the chance of an El Niño occurring in 2014 has increased. The latest climate model survey by the Bureau […]

Source: Bureau of Meteorology (EnGauge) The Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO have released their third State of the Climate—a comprehensive report on long-term trends in Australia’s climate observations. As with earlier reports, State of the Climate 2014 paints […]

by Alfredo Huete (Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, UTS) Earlier this month an interesting and provocative paper was published in Nature entitled “Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season”, by Morton […]

Martin Best from the JULES land surface team at the UK Met Office is visiting Australia for a few weeks in February-March. Martin will visit CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in Aspendale as well as the CCRC at […]

by Tom Pagano (BoM)   My interest in forecasts began in 1997 at the University of Arizona. I was studying how well weather models reproduced the effects of El Niño in the southwest US when a nearly unprecedented El Niño developed […]

by Natasha Herron (BoM) On 20 December 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology organised a workshop to discuss current and planned developments of AWAP, AWRA and CABLE modelling systems, with a view to rationalising ongoing development of hydrologic components […]

The Bureau of Meteorology has published its second Australian water resources assessment. This report will assist all Australians, particularly policymakers and planners, to understand the current state of the nation’s water resources and enable identification of existing and future […]