- Title
- Misattribution of climate trends in the Murray Darling Basin
- Creator
- Lockart, N. A.; Kavetski, D.; Franks, S. W.
- Relation
- 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (H2009). H2009: Proceedings of H2009, the 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (Newcastle, N.S.W. 30 November - 3 December, 2009) p. 1332-1340
- Relation
- http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au
- Publisher
- Engineers Australia / Causal Productions
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Previous studies have noted that during the recent drought in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), 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 this 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.
- Subject
- Murray-Darling Basin; rainfall; air temperature; temperature variability; evaporation
- Identifier
- uon:8919
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919608
- Identifier
- ISBN:97808258259461
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