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BRS Legal Notice and Disclaimer |
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NEWS: 20 Nov 2009 Our colleagues at the Bureau of Meteorology have advised that a problem has developed with MTSAT-1R, from which AWAP's solar radiation input data is derived. There is a second available satellite, MTSAT-2, but the spectral response is significantly different and processing these data to a similar solar radiation product will take some time. As the AWAP model can not run without all of its required input data, we will not be able to produce any new AWAP outputs until the solar radiation date stream is fixed. We appreciate your patience. The aim of the Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) is to monitor the state and trend of the terrestrial water balance of the Australian continent, using model-data fusion methods to combine both measurements and modelling. The project determines the past history and present state of soil moisture and all water fluxes contributing to changes in soil moisture (rainfall, transpiration, soil evaporation, surface runoff and deep drainage), across the entire Australian continent at a spatial resolution of 5 km. Using the same basic framework, the project provides soil moistures and water fluxes over the Australian continent in three forms: (1) weekly near-real-time reporting, (2) historical monthly time series (1900 to present), and (3) monthly climatologies.
The long-term intention is to contribute to integrated monitoring and understanding of the dynamics of Australian landscape systems, especially responses to climate variability and change, and thus to assist adaptive, system-wide management through feedback via measurement and monitoring.
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![]() Percentile Rank Relative Soil Moisture (lower layer) for the most recently available week. ![]() Percentile Rank Relative Soil Moisture (lower layer) for 2007 (annual). Red indicates dryer conditions and blue indicates wetter conditions. |