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Climag Magazine 10

In this Issue

  • Global Circulation Models – the key to future forecasting?
  • WhopperCropper: taking the ‘risk’ out of risk management?
  • Targeting tree establishment using seasonal climate forecasts

Climag Magazine 11

In this issue

  • Climate Connect 2006
  • Meet the MCV team
  • Working with the weather, on land and on water
  • Drier or wetter? It&rsquos not all about rainfall
  • Less frosty for northern wheat growers

Climag Magazine 12

In this issue:

  • Finding order in the chaos: Australia’s regional climate
  • A farewell to Harm
  • Why has 2006 been so dry?
  • Flexible feedbase options for dairy farmers
  • The Wet crystal ball
  • Hedging your

Climag Magazine 14. Looking ahead after south-east Australia's driest year

By increasing our understanding and predictability of three large-scale climate drivers - El Nino (the Southern Oscillation), changes in the Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures and the Southern Annular mode (hemispheric changes in windiness and storm activity over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica) - researchers now have a better understanding of their influence on rainfall variability in the region.

Climag Magazine 15. Smart responses to climate change

Producers, agribusiness advisors, researchers and natural resource managers in the drought-stricken dryland grains and mixed farming regions of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are working together to respond to a drier and more variable climate. Representatives from the Bureau of Meteorology, the Bureau of Rural Sciences, Meat & Livestock Australia, the Birchip Cropping Group and Managing Climate Variability have teamed up with local producers and (more)...

Climag Magazine 16

R&D meets farmers' needs in a changing climate

With climate change predictions pointing to Australia’s climate becoming even more variable, farmers are looking for more accurate seasonal forecasts that can be interpreted to help them better make decisions about planting, sowing, harvesting and stockin

Climag Magazine 7

The new look magazine from our Managing Climate Variability Program. The latest news on climate research and natural resource management.

Climag Magazine 8

In this issue:

  • Pan evaporation defying the trends: new research
  • Masters of Climate revisited Innovative farmers coming through drought
  • MCV million dollar boost
  • New faces for MCV
  • Irrigator banks on climat

Climag Magazine 9

In this issue:

Income forecasts turning the table on drought assistance

Dairy project builds on farmer experience

Farming profitably in a changing climate

World spotlight on Australian climate expertise

Southern Australia

Climate change impacts on pest animals and weeds

Communicating Climate Change - Module 13

Predicted changes in climate will affect the spread and competitiveness of pest animals and weeds in Australia. For example, in southern Australia, we can expect to see: more very hot days (in excess of 35°C) less incidence of frost less winter rainfall across all southern regions; spring rainfall is expected to be lower in south-eastern Australia, and autumn rainfall is more likely to be lower in the south-west of (more)...

Climate change: the scientific basis for concern

Communicating Climate Change - Module 1

The climate of the Earth is changing; it always has and always will. At very long time scales, natural drivers of climate change include subtle shifts and wobbles in the Earth’s orbit. These shifts account for the ice ages and warm interglacial periods over the last million years. At decadal time scales, natural climate drivers include variations in ocean currents and solar output. At the annual scale, drivers such as volcanic eruptions (which cool the earth by adding reflective (more)...