by Trevor Keenan (Macquarie University) and Tim Brown (Australian National University) Workshop report: TERN ACEAS phenocam workshop, 11-14 March 2014, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Plant phenology is highly sensitive to climate, thus serving as an excellent indicator of […]
Read moreby 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 […]
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by Luigi Renzullo & Brad Evans A comprehensive and integrated understanding of the terrestrial water, energy and carbon cycles requires four things: an observational database, a biophysical modelling framework, mathematical integration know-how, and the computer grunt to bring […]
Read moreMartin 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 […]
Read moreby 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 […]
Read moreby 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
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by David McJannet (CSIRO) Welcome to the last CosmOz newsletter for 2013. In this newsletter we introduce the newest probe to the network, and provide some information on recent publications and the upcoming COSMOS conference in Leipzig. […]
Read moreenGauge 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 […]
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