Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Deliver a set of next-generation user-friendly climate risk management tools that farmers can easily access to query weather data.
Current projects
Improving forecast accuracy through improved ocean initialisation
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Improve predictions of conditions in the Indian Ocean and, ultimately, predictions of regional climate for western, southern and eastern Australia.
Teleconnections between climate drivers and regional climate, and model representation of these links
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
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.
Understanding frost risk in a variable and changing climate
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
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.
Understanding frost and heat stress extremes in the Western Australia wheat belt
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
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.
Assessing and managing heat stress in cereals
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Investigate the meteorology and climatology of spring heat events on the southern grains wheat belt.
Develop a risk-management package for growers.
Multi-week forecasting products
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Develop new multi-week rainfall forecasting tools and make them available on the Bureau of Meteorology’s Water and The Land website.
Improving multi-week predictions
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Improve POAMA’s weather predictions 2–4 weeks ahead to make them more useful to agriculture and water-management industries.