Final project reports: Phase 1
Project 1.1.1: Timbal and Murphy (2007) | (PDF, 1.26 MB)
Documenting changes in south-eastern Australian rainfall, temperature, surface humidity and pan evaporation.
Project 1.1.1P: Timbal and Smith (2009) | (PDF, 907 KB)
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) | (PDF, 945 KB)
Comparing documented climate changes with those attributable to specific causes.
Project 1.2.1P: Timbal and Fernandez (2009) | (PDF, 1.24 MB)
Improved detection of the recent rainfall decline across south-eastern Australia including its seasonality and spatial characteristics.
Project 1.3.1: Timbal, Murphy, Fernandez and Li (2008) | (PDF, 1.29 MB)
Development of the analogue downscaling technique for rainfall, temperature, dew point and pan evaporation.
Project 1.3.1P: Timbal, Whan and Raupach (2009) | (PDF, 1.49 MB)
Climate change influence on changes in evapo-transpiration, runoff and drainage across south-eastern Australia, through both physical and ecological processes.
Project 1.4.1: Timbal and Fernandez (2009) | (PDF, 978 KB)
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) | (PDF, 1.43 MB)
Application of the Bureau of Meteorology downscaling technique 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) | (PDF, 749 KB)
Evaluation of statistically downscaled projections.
Project 2.1.5b: McGregor and Nguyen (2009) | (PDF, 3.18 MB)
Dynamical downscaling from climate change experiments.
Project 2.2.2: Post, Chiew, Vaze, Teng, Perraud and Viney (2009) | (PDF, 2.69 MB)
Future runoff projections (~2030) for south-eastern Australia.
Project 2.2.5P: Smith and Chiew (2009) | (PDF, 532 KB)
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) | (PDF, 611 KB)
Assessment of improved POAMA forecasts for hydrologically relevant surface variables.