The Bureau’s seasonal streamflow forecasting service now has an additional 20 locations, meaning we now issue forecasts at 70 locations every month. The operational streamflow forecasting service began in December 2010 with 21 locations in Victoria and southern […]

TERN ACEAS organised an invited workshop around  ‘Unifying principles for terrestrial ecosystem carbon, water and land-surface modelling’ – in the Rydges Tradewinds Hotelin Cairns from 9-13 April 2013. The premise of the workshop was that the time has come to reformulate the […]

On 30 May 2013, the Vegetation Processes working groups first meeting established a solid starting point for the group. Working group members openly exchanged ideas on how to make the best of the opportunity and perhaps most critically […]

  On Monday 8 April 2013 the Working Group on Hydrological Prediction (WG6) had its first meeting by videoconference. The accessibility, quality and sharing of data, in particular atmospheric forecast data, but also flow gauge observations and catchment boundaries, […]

Welcome to the April 2013 CosmOz newsletter. This month we introduce the South-east Esk Hydrological Sensor Web study and discuss the simple correction that is required to adjust cosmic ray neutron data for changes in atmospheric humidity. We […]

On Friday 15th February working group 2 (Model Evaluation and Benchmarking) had their first meeting by phone. A summary of the discussion is below. If you are interested in joining this group please contact Gab Abramowitz gabriel@unsw.edu.au Attending: […]

Heat is a regular feature of the Australian summer but the summer of 2012–13 had much more than its fair share. The summer of 2012–13 will go down as Australia’s hottest on record, and January 2013 as the nation’s […]

  Thanks to all who were able to contribute (in person or via submission of material) to the first workshop of the Data Assimilation Working Group of OzEWEX. It was a great day, and I look forward to […]

By Albert Van Dijk Three years ago in March 2010, southeast Australia was still in the grip of “the big dry” or the “millennium drought” – billed as the worst drought since European settlement. Dams across the Murray-Darling […]

On Friday 15 of February most of the members of the working group 1 (Observational Data) had their initial meeting. Minutes of the meeting copied below.  If you are interested in becoming a member of this working group […]

This month we announce the upcoming CosmOz workshop in Brisbane, talk about simple corrections to cosmic ray neutron data to account for changes in cosmic ray intensity and update you on recent progress in continental scale soil moisture […]

Rainfall extremes are increasing around the world, and the increase is linked to the warming of the atmosphere which has taken place since pre-industrial times. This writes Dr Seth Westra of the University of Adelaide on The Conversation, […]

Irrigation can have a considerable impact or regional climate, suggests a new study.  Irrigation in California’s Central Valley doubles the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, increasing rainfall across the U.S. Southwest, researchers say. Scientists at the University […]

The Bureau of Meteorology’s rainfall and temperature outlooks for January to March 2013 are now available on the Bureau’s website. The outlooks indicate that a drier than normal season is more likely for some parts of eastern Australia. However, there is […]

The Community Land Atmosphere Biosphere Exchange (CABLE) model is a land surface model used by CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and a number of universities. CABLE runs as a standalone model, forced with prescribed meteorology, or coupled to […]

When: 20 February 2013 where: Monash University, Melbourne Objective: Inaugural meeting of the OzEWEX DA working group, organised primarily as an opportunity to meet-and-greet fellow DA practitioners and learn about the latest activities in land surface remote sensing DA for waterenergy cycle science. […]