Final project reports: Phase 1

These final project reports are from projects conducted under Phase 1 of SEACI.

Project 1.1.1: Timbal and Murphy (2007)
Documenting changes in south-eastern Australian rainfall, temperature, surface humidity and pan evaporation

Project 1.1.1P: Timbal and Smith (2009)
Relationship between the Hadley circulation and the position and intensity of the sub-tropical ridge in the Australian region

Project 1.1.2: Timbal, Murphy, Braganza, Hendon, Wheeler and Rakich (2007)
Comparing documented climate changes with those attributable to specific causes

Project 1.2.1P: Timbal and Fernandez (2009)
Improved detection of the recent rainfal decline across south-eastern Australia incluing its seasonality and sptial characteristics

Project 1.3.1: Timbal, Murphy, Fernandez and Li (2008)
Development of the analogue downscaling technique for rainfall, temperature, dew point and pan evaporation

Project 1.3.1P: Timbal, Whan and Raupach (2009)
Climate change influence on changes in evapotranspiration, runoff and drainage across south-eastern Australia, through both physical and ecological processes

Project 1.4.1: Timbal and Fernandez (2009)
Application of the Bureau of Meteorology downscaling technique to reanalyses: implications for the attribution of observed climate change

Project 1.5.1: Timbal, Fernandez and Arblaster (2009)
Application of the Bureau of Meteorology downscaling tehcnique to coupled climate model simulation of the 20th Century and implications for the attribution of observed climate change

Project 2.1.4: Charles and Fu (2009)
Evaluation of statistically downscaled projections

Project 2.1.5b: McGregor and Nguyen (2009)
Dynamical downscaling from climate change experiments

Project 2.2.2: Post, Chiew, Vaze, Teng, Perraud and Viney (2009)
Future runoff projections (~2030) for south-eastern Australia

Project 2.2.5P: Smith and Chiew (2009)
Document and assess methods for generating inputs to hydrological models and extend delivery of projections across Victoria

Project 3.1.2P: Hendon, Alves, Lim, Yin, Zhao, Hudson, Wang Charles and Liu (2009)
Assessment of improved POAMA forecasts for hydrologically relevant surface variables