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On the recent warming in the Murray-Darling Basin: Land surface interactions misunderstood
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Lockart, N and Kavetski, D and Franks, SW, On the recent warming in the Murray-Darling Basin: Land surface interactions misunderstood, Geophysical Research Letters, 36 pp. 1-5. ISSN 1944-8007 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Previous studies of the recent drought in the Murray-
Darling Basin (MDB) have noted that low rainfall totals have
been accompanied by anomalously high air temperatures.
Subsequent studies have interpreted an identified trend in
the residual timeseries of non-rainfall related temperature
variability as a signal of anthropogenic change, further
speculating that increased air temperature has exacerbated
the drought through increasing evapotranspiration rates. In
this study, we explore an alternative explanation of the recent
increases in air temperature. This study demonstrates that
significant misunderstanding of known processes of land
surface – atmosphere interactions has led to the incorrect
attribution of the causes of the anomalous temperatures, as well
as significant misunderstanding of their impact on evaporation
within the Murray-Darling Basin.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | drought ENSO IPO PDO IOD climate variability evaporation evapotranspiration MDB |
Research Division: | Engineering |
Research Group: | Environmental engineering |
Research Field: | Air pollution modelling and control |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Franks, SW (Professor Stewart Franks) |
ID Code: | 86419 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 27 |
Deposited By: | Engineering |
Deposited On: | 2013-09-14 |
Last Modified: | 2013-10-23 |
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