Managing and understanding climate

EverTrain – Industry training for land managers

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EverTrain is a NSW Department of Primary Industries e-learning initiative funded through the Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre(FFI CRC). It is an education and extension training system that combines online training with face to face workshops to make training more accessible for land managers. The EverTrain courses are designed to be both cost effective and convenient by reducing [...]

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Climate dogs

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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

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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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