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Capturing the life cycle of drought for better drought preparedness

July 28, 2019 Abraham Gibson, Danielle Verdon-Kidd, Greg Hancock, Garry Willgoose (University of Newcastle)

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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Drought of knowledge on Australian natural hazards

November 13, 2016 Simon Walker (OzEWEX) and Anthony Kiem (University of Newcastle) Leave a comment

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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Newcastle’s weather recorded in Antarctica’s ice

June 29, 2016 Carly Tozer (University of Tasmania) and Simon Walker (OzEWEX) Leave a comment

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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A paleo-record of extremes in the Murray-Darling Basin

April 20, 2016 Michelle Ho (Columbia University) and Simon Walker (OzEWEX) Leave a comment

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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