The Research and Development Branch of the Bureau of Meteorology is pleased to announce its Annual workshop is to be held at the Head office of the Bureau of Meteorology 700 Collins Street, Docklands from the 5-9 December 2016. The […]
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In this article we look at five reasons why we need a new model for simulating rainfall. This month, news headlines have repeatedly reported floods and wild weather. June has seen the east coast of mainland Australia and […]
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Future climate uncertainty drives demand for higher resolution climate data to support decision making in industries such as agriculture, forestry, conservation and urban planning. Recent research by Julia Andrys and her colleagues of Murdoch University, examining climate projections […]
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For Australia, there is increasing demand for forecast information on time scales from a week to a season around extreme events. Results of a recent study led by Debra Hudson of the Bureau of Meteorology show that the […]
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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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After a year of driving global temperatures to unprecedented warmth, the giant El Nino weather event in the Pacific is officially over, raising hopes that drought-hit regions may be in for some relief in Australia and elsewhere. The […]
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Drought and water stress monitoring plays an important role in the management of water resources, especially during periods of extreme climate conditions. A recently developed drought index that considers both hydrometeorological and ecological concepts has revealed new aspects […]
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With parts of Australia once again in the grip of dry conditions, understanding climate variability and its impact on water supply is increasingly important. However, new research has found that models used by hydrologists to forecast long-term changes […]
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Predictive models for streamflow have practical implications for better understanding drought hydrology, eco-hydrology and environmental monitoring, agriculture and water resource management. Recent work by Dr Ravinesh Deo and fellow researchers found that an extreme learning machine model can […]
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The Millennium Drought taught Australians many lessons about living under extremely dry conditions – not just about how to conserve water, but also about human suffering. In a drought, farmers find it more difficult to make an income, […]
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Current climate projections indicate that Victoria is heading towards a warmer and drier environment, which will have severe impacts on the state’s water supply. A recent study by Sonya Fiddes and her colleagues found that by the […]
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As hydrological forecasting researchers, we are often excited when we develop new methods that lead to forecasts with smaller errors and/or more reliable uncertainty estimates. So how do we know whether a new method truly improves forecast performance? […]
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Recent work by Acacia Pepler and fellow researchers found that the frequency of East Coast Lows will likely decrease in the latter part of the 21st century. East Coast Lows (ECLs) are a critical weather event for the […]
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A recent study by Dr Eun-Pa Lim and colleagues demonstrated a connection between long-term trends in sea surface temperatures and amplified wet conditions in subtropical Australia during La Niña. Variations of Australian seasonal climate depend heavily upon the […]
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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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Australia’s rainfall is perhaps the most variable of any continent on Earth. When averaged across the country, rainfall in 2015 was only slightly below normal. However, there were large areas of both extreme dry and relative wet across […]
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To start of 2016 on a positive note, HEPEX is happy to invite contributions to a special issue in HESS on sub-seasonal to seasonal hydrological forecasting. The special issue is a follow-up on the workshop in Norrköping in September […]
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Today the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has released its yearly climate update. A strong El Niño event was the headline story underlying global climate in 2015, but its impact in Australia was mixed. In some parts of the […]
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The coastal catchments of southeast Australia may be affected less by large-scale climatic drivers than previously assumed, according to recent research by Rafael Carvalho and colleagues from the University of Wollongong. The study looked at the spatial variation in rainfall for Shoalhaven […]
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New research has found that linear trends in rainfall across Australia between 1981 and 2014 were largely attributable to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). The same study also found that both intra-annual and seasonal rainfall changes […]
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