by Laurissa Smith (ABC NSW) At this time of year, certain weather forecasts give farmers a better idea of how to plan for the year ahead. Some climate models help producers manage their feed, livestock numbers, or decide […]
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by Dave McJannet and Aaron Hawdon (CSIRO) The new data delivery system offers an easy way to access data from the Australia-wide network of cosmic-ray sensors in near real time. The new system provides access to the raw […]
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by Marta Yebra (ANU) New spatial time series of vegetation water use and carbon uptake show the water cost of carbon uptake globally at 5 km resolution. Global estimates of vegetation water use (transpiration) and carbon uptake through […]
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Source: TERN newsletter International funding has just been secured for the creation of a new international network that will utilize infrastructure, collaborations and expertise developed through TERN’s AusCover Facility, to measure and monitor change to terrestrial biomass and carbon in our […]
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Source: TERN newsletter Australia has always been a country of extremes. As a consequence Australian ecosystems – and the communities and industries that depend upon them – are, on the whole, a pretty resilient lot. But with all […]
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Source: TERN newsletter What are climate changes likely to mean for different forms of land use in different areas? And what are the best ways to conserve species given that their habitat ranges will be different in future? […]
Read moreby Michael Leonard, Feifei Zheng and Seth Westra (University of Adelaide) The extreme rainfall that hit New South Wales over the past week caused flash-flooding and resulted in deaths and homes destroyed. While analysis shows that these events […]
Read moresource: TERN An exciting new data sharing partnership between NASA and TERN will help deliver precise information on the water and carbon exchanges everywhere on Earth’s surface, vital for climatic forecasting. On January 31st NASA launched a new satellite that measures […]
Read moreby Jules Kajtar and Esteban Abellan Villardon (ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science) February 4-6, 2015, University of New South Wales. It is well-known that El Niño and La Niña events influence weather and climate across the globe. […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology CSIRO and the Bureau recently released a comprehensive update of climate observations and predictions for Australia to help inform decision-making in the natural resource management sector. Prepared to inform impact assessment and planning, Climate change in […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology The Bureau’s Annual Climate Report 2014 confirms that 2014 was Australia’s third-warmest year on record, with a national mean temperature 0.91 °C above average. Warmer temperatures were widespread, with multiple nationally significant heatwaves and several severe bushfires. […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology The Bureau of Meteorology has released the first four regions of its annual National Water Account. Reports for the Canberra, Daly, Ordand Perth regions are now online.Adelaide, Melbourne, South East Queensland and Sydney reports are due in late April and […]
Read moresource: TERN A new ‘behind the scenes’ data tool produced by TERN OzFlux is making it easier for researchers to access and download nation-wide data on the exchanges of heat, water and carbon dioxide between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. […]
Read moresource: TERN The release of a new continental-scale dataset, known as the Australian Phenology Product, is providing detailed information on the seasonal growth and development of Australia’s vegetation – indispensible for scientists and land managers nation-wide. From quantifying […]
Read moreby Albert van Dijk, OzEWEX Far from being the silly season, this coming December will be abuzz with OzEWEX science! You can present your research at the 2nd national OzEWEX workshop and sessions at two conferences: 21st […]
Read moreby Christian Jakob (Monash University) For a long time climate models have predicted that wet and warm areas in the tropics are going to get wetter, especially over the oceans. Observations of the recent past are beginning to […]
Read moreby Jonathan Nott (JCU) and Kevin Walsh (University of Melbourne) Senator Christine Milne’s statements on global warming linked the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu last weekend with climate change. But while there is very real possibility that there […]
Read moreby Mark Thyer and Seth Westra, University of Adelaide Imagine a future where the yearly flow into one of the largest water reservoirs of a major Australian city could halve within 70 years. This is a scenario […]
Read moreby Kevin Hennessy and Penny Whetton, CSIRO Australia is on track for up to 1.7C of warming this century if the world curbs its greenhouse emissions, but under a worst-case scenario could see anything from 2.8C to 5.1C […]
Read moreby Yi Liu (UNSW), Albert van Dijk (ANU) and Pep Canadell (CSIRO) While the news coming out of forests is often dominated by deforestation and habitat loss, research published in Nature Climate Change shows that the world has actually got […]
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