Bob Walker, an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, has set alarm bells ringing by recommending that NASA’s climate monitoring programs be axed. But his dismissal of the “politicised science” at NASA’s Earth Science Division shows an ignorance […]
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NCI’s data and compute expertise have played an integral role in a recently launched website that provides easy access to a wide range of environmental data covering the entire country. The data, available on the Australia’s Environment in 2015 […]
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In the climate research community it is well accepted that global climate models do a relatively poor job at capturing daily precipitation characteristics, due to the small spatial scales involved. What is far less known is that observations […]
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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 Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Geoscience Australia, CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have advised of the release of two significant reports that may be of interest: The value of Earth Observations from Space […]
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Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a crowd funding initiative that OzFlux has set up and ask that you check out the OzFlux network, visit the crowd funding page (perhaps even donate) and tell others […]
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For the first time, the Bureau’s Groundwater Information Suite gives decision-makers easy access to comprehensive, nationally consistent information about groundwater in Australia. Groundwater is a major source of water for agriculture, industry and many urban and rural communities—in […]
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AusCover announces the release of the “AusCover Good Practice Guidelines” – A technical handbook providing details on how to correct and check remotely sensed data products to ensure they can be used for science and management applications. […]
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More than 35 years of satellite-derived time-series biophysical map products are now freely accessible via TERN AusCover. Capturing seasonal, episodic and historical changes in land-cover along with the impacts of extreme events, the data are an invaluable source […]
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Over the last months, our working group has gone through some changes and transformations. For starters, Juan Pablo Guerschman (CSIRO) stepped down as chair and Marta Yebra (ANU) and Chris Rüdiger (Monash) have volunteered for the role. Over […]
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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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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 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 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 moreSurface water occurs with varying degrees of frequency and persistence across the floodplains, wetlands, salt lakes, lakes and rivers of Australia. Information about the dynamics of surface water is required to inform a wide range of research, policy […]
Read moreby Dave McJannet and Aaron Hawdon, CSIRO It has been a while since the last update from the CosmOz network but we are back to tell you about our latest progress. The network is continuing to grow and […]
Read moresource: Geoscience Australia Water Observations from Space (WOfS) is a web service displaying historical surface water observations derived from satellite imagery for all of Australia for the period of 1998 to 2012. By June 2015 this service will […]
Read moresource: Bureau of Meteorology Drier conditions in 2012–13 contributed to reduced inflows to water storages and higher water use across much of Australia, according to today’s final National Water Account 2013 release.Total water use across the nine nationally significant water […]
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 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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