Yearly Archives: 2013

Climate dogs

Posted by : Gordon Rogers | Category : Managing and understanding climate | Comments : 0 Comments

Climate dogs

The Victorian DPI, NSW DPI and the Bureau of Meteorology have developed a series of videos that explain how global climate processes vary their behaviour, potentially resulting in wetter or dryer seasons. Climate dogs video series show, in an entertaining way, how climate drivers work by herding rain towards or away from NSW and Victoria. The five [...]

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SILO

Posted by : Gordon Rogers | Category : Managing and understanding climate | Comments : 0 Comments

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SILO is a database of about 120 years of continuous daily weather records for Australia, which includes: Rainfall Temperatures (minimum and maximum) Radiation Evaporation Vapour pressure The records are based mainly on observed data, with interpolation where there are data gaps. SILO data is up-to-date (near real time), in formats useful for farmers, researchers and [...]

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Rainman StreamFlow

Posted by : Gordon Rogers | Category : Forecasting weather | Comments : 0 Comments

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Rainman StreamFlow is a decision-support tool that helps farmers to predict rainfall at a specific location within a specified time period and can be used to: Analyse records for individual locations for seasonal, monthly and daily patterns. Forecast seasonal rainfall based on the Southern Oscillation Index or Sea Surface Temperatures. Use group locations for spatial [...]

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