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The Rainfall Reliability Wizard
About the Wizard
Example output (mean annual rainfall) from the Wizard.
The Wizard uses 25x25km grided monthly rainfall data, Australia wide, from the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology. This is a tool used to rapidly evaluate rainfall events and to characterise rainfall risk/reliability across broad geographic areas.
For example, the Wizard may be used to determine actual rainfall for a season (eg. autumn 2003), and then calculate the percentile ranking for that season against the historical record (>100 years).
Conversely, in terms of risk, the reliability of receiving a defined rainfall amount either for a season (inter-seasonal) or for individual months in a season (intra-seasonal) are easily calculated. Importantly, all of these analyses can be quickly imported into commercial Geographic Information Systems (GIS) packages.
How the Rainfall Reliability Wizard works
- Rainfall Reliability Wizard - Flash Demonstration [193kb] (runs for approx 6 mins)
- Use the Rainfall Reliability Wizard online
More information
Contact
Greg Laughlin
Senior Principal Scientist
Bureau of Rural Sciences
Phone: +61 2 6272 3347
Email: Greg Laughlin