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Data Information and Knowledge Hub - Water Theme

Annotated bibliography

Annotated bibliographies currently under development.  Reference lists were compiled using EndNote software and have been made available for download as text documents. 

Annotated bibliography: Water includes references on modelling loads and groundcover [.doc 75kb]

Information and Projects summary [.doc 619kb]  includes information on Generators, Repositories & Brokers of Information (Version 6 published 7/9/9)

Decision Support Tools

Water Storage in the Murray-Darling

eWater CRC:technology development iniative

  • CatchmentSIM: GIS based terrain analysis program
  • Catchment modelling toolkit: hydrologic modelling of catchments
  •      MUSIC: urban stormwater
  •      WaterCAST: Water and Contaminant Analysis and Simulation Tool
  •      SedNet: constructs sediment and nutrient (P & N) budgets
  •      SCL: Stochastic Climate Library for generating climate data
  •      RRL: Rainfall Runoff Library to simulate catchment runoff (daily)
  •      CMSS: Long term, Catchment nutrient management predictions

Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM7): Detailed soil-crop bio0physical model, simulating crop growth, the water balance and soil nitrogen dynamics on a point basis.  Released by APSRU

  • ApSoil: database of soil water characteristics for the estimation of Plan Available Water Capacity.
  • Farmscape
  • HowWet?: A tool for predicting fallow water storage.  uses rainfall records to estimate how much rain has been stored as Plant Available Water, How much nitrogen has been mineralised in soil and how much erosion has been caused by runoff water during fallow period.
  • Whopper Cropper: cropping systems modelling and seasonal climate forecasting
  • Patch Point Data SILO Weather Stations in Google Earth

 

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