Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Quantify the extremes and impact of frost and heat stress on the Western Australia wheat belt.
Link with the frost and heat-stress projects underway in South Australia and Victoria to improve understanding of frost and heat stress across southern Australia.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Using multi-week forecasts identified under the Improving multi-week predictions project, make new forecasting products available on the Bureau of Meteorology’s Water and The Land website.
The products will be tested by farmers participating in Managing Climate Variability’s Climate Champion program.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Improve POAMA’s weather predictions 2–4 weeks ahead to make them more useful to agriculture and water-management industries.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Improve predictions of conditions in the Indian Ocean and, ultimately, predictions of regional climate for western, southern and eastern Australia.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Improve Australia’s dynamical forecasting by investigating the connection between several weather systems, including the Southern Oscillation Index, Indian Ocean Dipole, Madden-Julian Oscillation, subtropical ridge and Southern Annular Mode.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Improve understanding of the variability and changing nature of frost risk at both seasonal and decadal scales for the southern regions of Australia, and implications for the wine and grain industries.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Investigate the meteorology and climatology of spring heat events on the southern grains wheat belt.
Develop a risk-management package for growers.
Friday, June 25th, 2010
This task is to determine how best the sugarcane industry in the Mackay Whitsunday region can meet the sustainability challenge of increasingly extreme events which are predicted to occur with Australia’s changing climate.
Friday, June 25th, 2010
The project objective is to undertake a critical evaluation of climate risk management tools such as Yield Prophet, PYCal, WhopperCropper, the Mallee calculator and CropMate to provide a more integrated package to grain growers and suggest the key investment opportunities for further improvements in these Grains Tools.