enGauge summarises news from Climate, Water and Environmental programs of the Bureau of Meteorology. In the December 2013 issue: Improving Water Information Programme Progress Report 2013 Guide to environmental accounting in Australia Drought conditions return to Australia’s eastern […]
Read moreThe Goyder Institute recently held a Climate Change Projections Stakeholder Workshop on Wednesday 27th November in the Learning Centre at SA Water House on Victoria Square, Adelaide. The workshop was facilitated by consultant Damien Moloney and more than […]
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As 2013 draws to a close, progress in developing the Ecosystem Science Long-Term Plan (ESLTP) has stepped up a notch with the release of an online survey to gather your ideas, completion of the first town hall workshop, and announcement […]
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OzFlux is a network of towers around Australia continuously measures the exchanges (flux) of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between the terrestrial ecosystem and atmosphere. The network is supported a facility through the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network […]
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On 26 November 2013, the OzEWEX steering group (SG) met. The OzEWEX steering group consists of the working group chairs, OzEWEX chair and GEWEX representative. Below follows a summary of the discussion. Report on OzEWEX OzEWEX chair Albert van Dijk […]
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Papers of potential interest to OzEWEX members, published between October-December 2013. There have been 121 publications these last months – not to overwhelm you with a long list, you can find them listed by Working Group topic here: WG1. […]
Read more· Argüeso, D., Evans, J., Fita, L., 2013. Precipitation bias correction of very high resolution regional climate models. Hydrology & Earth System Sciences Discussions, 10(6). · Beck, H.E. et al., 2013. Global patterns in base flow index and […]
Read more· Ali, A.A., Medlyn, B.E., Crous, K.Y., Reich, P.B., 2013. A trait‐based ecosystem model suggests that long‐term responsiveness to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration is greater in slow‐growing than fast‐growing plants. Functional Ecology. · Andela, N., Liu, Y., van […]
Read more· Dowdy, A.J., Mills, G.A., Timbal, B., Wang, Y., 2013. Changes in the risk of extratropical cyclones in eastern Australia. Journal of Climate, 26(4): 1403-1417. · Leonard, M. et al., 2013. A compound event framework for understanding extreme […]
Read more· Alvarez-Garreton, C., Ryu, D., Western, A., Crow, W., Robertson, D., 2013. Impact of observation error structure on satellite soil moisture assimilation into a rainfall-runoff model. · Davidson, N.E. et al., 2013. ACCESS-TC: Vortex Specification, 4D-VAR Initialization, Verification […]
Read more· Bennett, S.J., Bishop, T.F., Vervoort, R.W., 2013. Using SWAP to quantify space and time related uncertainty in deep drainage model estimates: A case study from northern NSW, Australia. Agricultural Water Management, 130: 142-153. · Black, D., Wallbrink, […]
Read more· Bandara, R., Walker, J.P., Rüdiger, C., 2013. Towards soil property retrieval from space: A one-dimensional twin-experiment. Journal of Hydrology. · Chen, Y., Ebert, E.E., Walsh, K.J., Davidson, N.E., 2013. Evaluation of TMPA 3B42 daily precipitation estimates of […]
Read moreby Gab Abramowitz (UNSW) The Met Office (Martin Best) is coordinating a land surface model (LSM) benchmarking experiment through the PALS system – the PALS Land sUrface Model Benchmarking Evaluation pRoject (PLUMBER). While the project is in essence […]
Read moreby Gab Abramowitz (UNSW) The annual face-to-face workshop for Australia’s community land surface model, CABLE, was held at Melbourne University on 15th November 2013. As well as oral presentations on a range of new developments in the CABLE […]
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Geoscience Australia has recently released a beta version of the Australian Reflectance Grid 25 (ARG25V). This means surface reflectance from the Landsat TM and ETM+ sensors (Landsat 5 and 7), corrected for atmospheric and BRDF effects. The data […]
Read moreThe Joint Meeting of the GEWEX Hydroclimatology (GHP) and Data and Assessments (GDAP) Panels was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2-6 September 2013. The Meeting was hosted by Professor Ana Nunes of the Departamento de […]
Read moreIn 2011 an anomalous drop in sea level occurred that was so strong the background trend of recent decades of +3.2 mm/yr was temporarily reversed (see Figure 1). The drop was the largest to occur since the launch […]
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Papers of potential interest to OzEWEX members, published between June-September 2013. Is your new article missing? Help us fix it: write a feature blog post or send a sentence to the editor! Observational data Image acquisition for detection […]
Read moreHow do we know the cosmic-ray probe gives reliable estimates? A team in Tasmania, under the leadership of Auro Almeida (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences) has instrumented a site in Tullochgorum to test how cosmic-ray probe (CRP) soil moisture measurements […]
Read moreOver the last decade the Murray Darling Basin Authority(MDBA) and its predecessors have made significant investments in remote sensing and related technologies in the development of the Basin Plan, and the delivery of numerous projects and programs. While the benefits […]
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