Current Australian drought policy aims to promote preparedness and resilience in favour of costly disaster-relief based strategies. Recent conditions have highlighted a shortfall in this approach, with Federal Government aid contributions exceeding $1 billion near the end of […]
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Whenever droughts occur in Australia, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast and manage them is shown to be insufficient. That is the conclusion of a a new study by Australian researchers undertaken through OzEWEX, and published in the […]
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Water and catchment management strategies in eastern Australia have traditionally been designed based on the patterns and statistics of the last 50-100 years when direct rainfall measurements exist. Recent research led by Dr Carly Tozer of the Antarctic […]
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The assessment and planning of water resources is largely a data driven exercise that is often hampered by relatively short instrumental records that limit the ability to identify long-term, near-decadal scale variability. Recent work by Michelle Ho […]
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