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Australian rangelands and climate change - rainfall variability and pasture growth

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Title

Australian rangelands and climate change - rainfall variability and pasture growth,

Creator

Bastin, Gary,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT,

Date

2014,

Description

This report examines the frequency with which past probable growth events occurred using the daily rainfall data for selected rainfall recording stations throughout the Rangelands Cluster. Pasture growth models (e.g. GRASP at paddock scale and AussieGRASS1 at landscape scale) estimate forage availability on a monthly to annual basis and provide a much more sophisticated interpretation of historic rainfall. However, these modelling approaches were not available to this project and we simply use various amounts of continuous daily rainfall to indicate likely growth events. This approach, via a spreadsheet template, could easily be expanded and adopted for continuing use by NRM planners within their regions. - Introduction, Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,

Notes

This project was funded by the Australian Government and was part of a collaboration between the Rangelands NRM Alliance, CSIRO, University of Canberra and Ninti One. Thanks to the following NRM regions for their review and input: Rangelands WA, Territory NRM, Alinytjara Wilurara NRM, SA Arid Lands NRM, Desert Channels Qld, South West NRM Qld and Western Local Lands Services. Thanks also to the members of the project’s Scientific Advisory Panel for their advice and guidance: Steve Morton, Craig James, Stephen van Leeuwin, Ian Watterson, Colleen O’Malley, Daryl Green and Digby Race.,

Table of contents

Key points -- Introduction -- Method -- Data source -- Caveats -- Findings - Analysis of Alice Springs rainfall - Return period of events - Regional analysis of rainfall: NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia -- Key adaptation strategies -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- References,

Language

English,

Subject

Rainfall variation, Climate change, Pasture growth, Data analysis,

Publisher name

Ninti One Limited and CSIRO,

Place of publication

Alice Springs,

Format

31 pages : some colour illustrations, some colour maps, tables ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781741582512,

Use

Copyright,

Copyright owner

Ninti One Limited and CSIRO,

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2021C00407,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/282347,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/412988