Evapotranspiration from the global land surface has increased significantly due to increases in transpiration and interception that are only partially counteracted by decreasing soil evaporation, a new study reports. Terrestrial evaporation (ET) is a key component of the energy and water cycles over global […]
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The second OzEWEX national workshop was a great success, with well over a hundred participants, many inspiring presentations and lots of stimulating discussion. The workshop was held at in Broadbeach, Queensland, on 2 December 2015. We joined forces with the organisers of […]
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The landscape water balance is the sum of the hydrological processes that keep water moving through a landscape—recharging groundwater, filling streams and flushing water through wetlands. This water balance also determines how much moisture is in the soil—a […]
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Respected hydrogeologist, Dr Richard Cresswell, has told farmers at a conference in Sydney that the Santos coal seam gas operation in the Pilliga is no threat to the water resource there. Dr Cresswell, a former CSIRO hydrogeologist, sits […]
Read moreworkshop report, 3 December 2014 The CABLE land surface modelling community held its annual face-to-face meeting at ANU on December 3. Aside from brief talks updating issues relevant to CABLE’s management process, and a few key research findings using CABLE throughout the […]
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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
Read moreOn 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: […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreYou are invited to submit an abstract to the session on Quantitative Evaluation Methods for Meteorological Forecasts and Geophysical Products (session AS09) at the 10th annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) in Brisbane, 24-28 June […]
Read moreChair: Dr Gab Abramowitz, University of New South Wales (homepage) Members: Barry Croke, Australian National University Beth Ebert, Bureau of Meteorology Jason Evans, University of New South Wales Andrew Frost, Bureau of Meteorology Juan Pablo Guerschman, CSIRO Land […]
Read moreOzEWEX promotes the use of observations to evaluate and compare biophysical models and data products describing energy and water cycle components and related variables. Biophysical models of particular interest include those of particular importance to the Australian research community or […]
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