Source: The Conversation The word “climate” was conspicuously absent from Joe Hockey’s first budget speech as treasurer. It’s not hard to guess why – the full budget sets out major cuts to climate research, and strong moves against renewable energy programs, such as […]
Read moreSource: Sydney Morning Herald Leading scientists have blasted the Abbott government’s decision to scrap key bodies overseeing water reforms amid plunging reservoir levels, a looming El Nino and the longer-range threat posed by climate change. The […]
Read moreSource: Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s climate change action has effectively ground to a halt with the budget revealing big cuts to research and renewable energy, moves that critics say sets policy back to the 1990s. Budget papers show funds […]
Read moreSource: The Conversation Record-breaking rains triggered so much new growth across Australia that the continent turned into a giant green carbon sink to rival tropical rainforests including the Amazon, our new research shows. Published in the international journal Nature, our study […]
Read morePlease note the Call for Papers for the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, to be held in Melbourne in March 2015, is now available from www.isess2015.org Key dates are: 5/9/14 Extended abstract submission 3/10/14 Notification of abstract […]
Read moreOn Tuesday April 1st OzEWEX Working Group 2 held a video meeting to detail progress in model benchmarking related areas. Attendees: Gab Abramowitz, Andrew Frost, Adam Smith, Rob Pipunic, Albert van Dijk, Neil Viney, Barry Croke, Mohsin Hafeez. […]
Read moreThe Fenner School of Environment & Society at The Australian National University welcomes applications from highly qualified and motivated PhD candidates for research on water and landscape dynamics. Professor Albert Van Dijk’s research team develops new methods to monitor, […]
Read moreNews wrap up, January-March 2014 Water storage levels in the Murray-Darling Basin are now at 54% of capacity, down from about 95% in September 2012 and at levels not experienced since the Millennium drought. Drier El Niño conditions […]
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New publications, January-March 2014 Not to overwhelm you with a long list, you can find them listed by Working Group topic here: WG1. Observational data – new publications WG2. Model Evaluation and Benchmarking – […]
Read moreDrosdowsky & Wheeler: Predicting the onset of the North Australian wet season with the POAMA dynamical prediction system. Weather and Forecasting, 29, 150-161. Loveridge & Rahman: Quantifying uncertainty in rainfall-runoff models due to design losses using Monte Carlo […]
Read moreBarron and coauthors: Mapping groundwater-dependent ecosystems using remote sensing measures of vegetation and moisture dynamics. Hydrological Processes, 28, 372-385. Doody and coauthors: Development of pan coefficients for estimating evapotranspiration from riparian woody vegetation. Hydrological Processes, 28, 2129-2149. Lamontagne […]
Read moreAbdul 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 […]
Read moreChen 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 […]
Read moreArgent: 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 […]
Read moreChen 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 […]
Read moreOn 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 […]
Read moreSource: 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 […]
Read moreSource: 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 […]
Read moreBy 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 […]
Read moreSource: 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 […]
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