Confluence of the Darling and Murray Rivers at Wentworth on the NSW/Vic border. Copyright Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
Surface water hydrology: modelling and predicting climate, land use and development impact on water
Our research guides water resources management and planning.
- 16 February 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011
Overview
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Australia's water resources are coming under increasing demands from an expanding urban population, irrigation and industrial water use, and a need for environmental water allocations.
Future water resources in the important areas in southern Australia are also likely to decrease due to climate change, development drivers such as farm dams and plantations, and groundwater extractions.
Our research advances hydrological science by developing integrated models that improve the quantification and forecasting of water fluxes (and the impact of climate, land use and development) to underpin management of increasingly scarce water resources from farm to basin scale.
This is achieved through analysis and interpretation of climate, streamflow, land use, remotely-sensed and other data.
Hydrological processes are characterised over different time and spatial scales, and this is used to build predictive hydrological models.
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