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Drought

  • Bryceson, K.P. (1993). Locust survey and drought monitoring - two case studies of the operational use of satellite data in Australian Government Agencies. The International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences (ITC) Journal, 3, 267-225. 

  • Bryceson, K.P. (1994). Using GMS satellite data to estimate the areal location and quantity of rain. Agricultural Systems and Information Technology, special issue on Climate and Risk, Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, 6(2), 37, 51-53.

  • Bryceson, K.P. and White, D.H. (1994). Proceedings of a workshop on Drought and Decision Support, Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, 63pp. 

  • Bryceson, K.P., Brook, K.D. and White, D.H. (1993). Integration of spatial data and temporal models to improve drought preparedness, monitoring and management. In Proceedings of the International Conference on "Applications of Advanced Information Technologies for the Management of Natural Resources", Spokane, Washington, June 17-19, pp. 158-166. 

  • Bowman, P.J., McKeon, G.M. and White, D.H. (1995). The impact of long range climate forecasting on the performance of sheep flocks in Victoria. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 46, 687-702. 

  • Carberry, P.; George, D., and Buckley, D (1998). Guidelines for drought management. NSW Agriculture, Orange, NSW.

  • Drought policy review task force (1990). Managing for Drought. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

  • Drought policy review task force (1990). National drought policy, final report Volume 1. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

  • Drought policy review task force (1990). Drought policy review task force - annexes - final report volume III. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. 

  • Laughlin G.P. and Clark, A (2000). Drought Science and Drought Policy in Australia: A Risk Management Perspective. Canberra: BRS. 

  • McKeon, G. M.; Ash, A. J.; Hall, W. B., and Stafford-Smith, D. M (1999). DroughtPlan - simulation of grazing strategies for beef production in north-eastern Queensland. 

  • McKeon, G.M. and White, D.H. (1992). El Niño and better land management. Search (23), 197-200. 

  • Mofac Consultants Pty Ltd (1992). Characteristics of self reliant and efficient drought management. Canberra: BRS. 

  • NSW Agriculture (1998). Assistance for farms and farm families in tough times. NSW Agriculture, Orange, NSW. 

  • Queensland Department of Primary Industries (1992). Drought - managing for self-reliance - a policy paper. Queensland Department of Primary Industries. 

  • Smith, DI, MF Hutchinson, and RJ McArthur (1992). Climatic and agricultural drought: Payments and policy. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU, Report to Rural Industries R&D Corporation.

  • Specht, R. L (1987). The effect of summer drought on vegetation structure in the Mediterranean climate regions of Australia.

  • Stephens, D. J. (1996). Objective criteria for drought exceptional circumstances declarations - cropping areas. Agriculture Western Australia: South Perth, WA. 

  • Walker, P. J (1992). Managing for Drought. CALM Technical Paper 1, October.

  • White, D.H. (1992). Australia: Toward a new drought policy. Drought Network News, University of Nebraska, 4(2), 5-7.

  • White, D.H. (1993). Implementing Australia's National Drought Policy. Drought Network News, University of Nebraska, 5(3), 8-10.

     
    Papers within Agricultural Systems, Volume 57, issue 3, 1 July 1998

    • Donnelly, J.R., Freer, M., and Moore, A.D. (1998). Using the GrassGro decision support tool to evaluate some objective criteria for the definition of exceptional drought. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 301-314. 

    • Illius, A. W., Derry, J. F. and I. J. Gordon (1998). Evaluation of strategies for tracking climatic variation in semi-arid grazing systems, Agricultural Systems 57(3), 381-398. 

    • de Jager, J.M., Potgieter, A.B. and Van den Berg W.J. (1998). Framework for forecasting the extent and severity of drought in maize in the Free State Province of South Africa. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 351-366. 

    • Keating, B.A. and Meinke, H. (1998). Assessing exceptional drought with a cropping systems simulator: a case study for grain production in northeast Australia. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 315-332. 

    • McVicar, T.R and Jupp, D.L.B (1998). The current and potential operational uses of remote sensing to aid decisions on drought and Exceptional Circumstances in Australia: a review. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 399-468. 

    • O’Meagher, B, L.G. du Pisana, and D.H. White (1998). Evolution of Drought Policy and Related Science in Australia and South Africa. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 231-258.

    • du Pisani, L.G., Fouche, H.J. and Venter, J.C. (1998). Assessing rangeland drought in South Africa. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 367-380. 

    • Stephens, D.J. (1998) Objective criteria for estimating the severity of drought in the wheat cropping areas of Australia. Agricultural Systems, 57 (3), 333-350. 

    • Thompson, D. and Powell, R. (1998). Exceptional circumstances provisions in Australia—is there too much emphasis on drought? Agricultural Systems 57(3), 469-488.

    • White, D.H., Howden, S.M., Walcott, J.J., and Cannon, R.M. (1998). A framework for estimating the extent and severity of drought, based on a grazing system in south-eastern Australia. Agricultural Systems 57(3), 259-270. 

  • White, D.H. and Bordas, V.M. (eds) (1997). Indicators of Drought Exceptional Circumstances. Proceedings of a workshop held in Canberra, 1 October 1996. Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra.

  • White, D.H. and Howden, S.M. (1991). The emerging role of decision support systems in managing for drought on Australian farms. Proceedings of the International Conference on Decision Support Systems for Resource Management, College Station, Texas, April, pp. 129-132.

  • White, D.H. and O'Meagher, B. (1995). Coping with exceptional drought in Australia. Drought Network News, University of Nebraska, 7(2), 13-17.

  • White, D.H., Collins, D. and Howden, S.M. (1993). Drought in Australia: prediction, monitoring, management and policy. In Drought Assessment, Management and Planning: Theory and case Studies, ed. D.A. Wilhite, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 213-236.

  • White, D.H., Howden, S.M., Walcott, J.J. and Cannon, R.M. (1995). Estimating the extent and severity of drought. Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, University of Newcastle, 27-30 November 1995, 2, 255-259.

  • White, D.W. and Karrisses, L (1998) Australia’s National Drought Policy: Aims, Analysis and Implementation. Water International 24(1), 2-9. Originally presented to the World Water Congress, 1-6 September 1997, Montreal, Canada.

Risk perception, analysis and management

  • Australian Standard. Risk Management (AS/NZS 4360:1999). Standards Australia, Revised Edition 1999.

  • Blackburn, A.S., Inglis, S., Polkinghorne, L., Ashby, R. and Hacking, C. (1992). Characteristics of self-reliant and efficient drought management. Consultancy report to the Bureau of Resource Sciences.

  • Clark A.J. and Brinkley T. (2001). Risk management for climate, agriculture and policy. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences. 143

  • Clark, A.J., Brinkley, T., Lamont, B., and Laughlin, G. (2000). Exceptional Circumstances: A case study in the application of climate information to decision making. Presented at the Cli-Manage Conference, Albury, NSW, 23-25 October.

  • Slovic, P. (1997). Risk Perception and Trust, Chapter III.1, Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management. CRC Press 

  • Walcott, J. J. and Clark, A. J. (2001) Risk assessment and expert opinion in implementing policy - Exceptional Circumstances. Proceedings of 10th Australian Agronomy Conference.

  • White, D.H. (1993). Improving and analysing agricultural systems: identifying opportunities and minimising risks. In Agricultural Frontiers: Opportunities and Risks, Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science and New Zealand Society for Horticultural Science Annual Convention, Lincoln University, 25-28 August 1992, pp. 7-15.

  • White, D.H. (1993). Incorporating risk analysis into decision support systems. In Incorporating Risk into Decision Support and Farm Business Management Systems, ed. L.N. Trapnell and W.W. Fisher, Melbourne, 9-11 November, pp. 66-68.

  • White, D.H. (1994). Managing risk on farms: living with uncertainty. Resource Sciences Interface 3, 28-33.

  • White, D.H. (1994). Concepts of risk management. Agricultural Systems and Information Technology, special issue on Climate and Risk, Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, 6(2), 7-8.

  • Williams, R.T., and Walcott, J.J. (1998). A handy framework for regional sustainability — what can we learn from people, models and aeroplanes? In Learning Communities, Regional Sustainability and the Learning Society, 13–20 June, Launceston. 

  • Williams, R.T. and Walcott, J.J. (1998). Sustainable agriculture — using best practice to manage the paradoxes facing land managers and agronomists. In Agronomy — Growing a Greener Future. (D.L. Michalk and J.E. Pratley, eds) Proceedings of the 9th Australian Agronomy Conference, 20–23 July, Wagga Wagga, Australian Society of Agronomy.

Climate Variability

  • Indian Ocean Climate Initiative Panel (1999). Towards understanding climate variability in south-western Australia. Indian Ocean Climate Initiative Panel, Perth, WA. 

  • McKeon, G.M., Howden, S.M. and White, D.H. (1993). ENSO and climate change: a grassland user's perspective. Proceedings of Workshop on ENSO and Climate Change, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 31 May.

  • Munro, RK and MJ Lembit (1997). Managing climate variability in the national interest: Needs and Objectives, 3-20. In: Climate Prediction for Agricultural & Resource Management, Ed. RK Munro & LM Leslie, pp. 318. 

  • Power, S.B., T Casey, C Folland, A Colman, and V Mehta (1999). Inter-decadal modulation of the impact of ENSO on Australia. Climate Dynamics, 15, 319-324.

  • Power, S.B., Tseitkin, F., Colman, R.A. and Sulaiman, A. (1998). A coupled general circulation model for seasonal prediction and climate change research. BMRC Research Report No. 66, Bur. Met., Australia. 

  • Power, S.B., Tseitkin, F., Mehta, V., Lavery, B., Torok, S. J., and Holbrook, N (1999). Decadal climate variability in Australia during the twentieth century. International Journal of Climatology 19, 169-184. 

  • Power, S.B., Tseitkin, F., Torok, S. J., Lavery, B., Dahni, R., and McAvaney, B (1998). Australian temperature, Australian rainfall and the Southern Oscillation, 1910-1992: coherent variability and recent changes. Australian Meteorological Magazine 47, 85-101. 

  • Stafford-Smith, D. M., Clewett, J. F., Moore, A. D., McKeon, G. M., and Clark, R (1998). DroughtPlan - building on grazier participation to manage for climate variability. Canberra: RIRDC.

GIS, Remote Sensing and Modeling tools

  • Brinkley, T., Laughlin, G.P., and Hutchinson, M.F. GROWEST PLUS - A tool for rapid assessment of seasonal growth for environmental planning and assessment. Environmental Modelling and Software (submitted 13-Mar-03).

  • Bugg, A. L., Landsberg, J., Laughlin, G.P., Tickle, P. Frakes, I. Simulating the effects of climate variability and spatial modelling of tree growth and its reliability. Forest Ecology and Management (submitted)

  • Farrar, T.J., Nicholson, S.E. and Lare, A.R. (1994). The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semiarid Botswana. II. NDVI response to soil moisture. Remote Sens. Environ. 50, 121-133.

  • Hill, M.J., Vickery, P.J., Furnival, E.P. and Donald, G.E. (1999). Pasture Land Cover in Eastern Australia from NOAA-AVHRR NDVI and Classified Landsat TM. Remote Sens. Environ. 67, 32-50.

  • Hill, M.J., Donald, G.E., Vickery, P.J. and Furnival, E.P. (1996). Integration of satellite remote sensing, simple bioclimatic models and GIS for assessment of pastoral development for a commercial grazing enterprise. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 36, 309-321.

  • Hutchinson M.F. (1998a). Interpolation of rainfall data with thin plate smoothing splines: I two dimensional smoothing of data with short range correlation. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis 2(2): 152-167.

  • Hutchinson M.F. (1998b). Interpolation of rainfall data with thin plate smoothing splines: II analysis of topographic dependence. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis (2): 168-185.

  • Kumar, K. and Monteith, J.L. (1981). Remote sensing of crop growth. In: H. Smith (Editor), Plants in the daylight spectrum. Academic Press, London, pp. 133-144.

  • Laughlin, G.P., Zuo, H., Walcott, J., and Bugg, A. (2003) The Rainfall Reliability Wizard - A new tool to rapidly analyse spatial rainfall reliability with examples. Environmental Modelling and Software 18/1 pp. 49-57.

  • Laughlin, G. P., Hutchinson, M. F., and Mackey, B. G (1993). An intuitive approach to analysing small point-source spatial data sets. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 7(1), 21-38.

  • McVicar, T.R and Jupp, D.L.B (1998). The current and potential operational uses of remote sensing to aid decisions on drought and Exceptional Circumstances in Australia: a review. Agricultural Systems, 57(3), 399-468.

  • McVicar, T.R. and Jupp, D.L.P. (1999). Using AVHRR data and meteorological surfaces as covariates to spatially interpolate moisture availability in the Murray-Darling Basin. Technical Report 50/99, November. CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra.

  • Nicholson, S.E. and Farrar, T.J. (1994). The influence of soil type on the relationships between NDVI, rainfall, and soil moisture in semiarid Botswana. I. NDVI response to rainfall. Remote Sens. Environ. 50, 107-120.

  • Petersen, G.W., Bell, J.C., McSweeney, K.M., Nielsen, G.A. and Robert, P.C. (1995). Geographic Information Systems in agronomy. Advances in Agronomy, 55, 67-111.

  • Wade, G., Mueller, R., Cook, P. and Doraiswamy (1994). AVHRR map products for crop condition assessment: a Geographic Information Systems Approach. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 60 (9), 1145-1150.

  • Zuo, H., Bugg, A.L., and Laughlin, G.P. (2003). Modelling pasture and plantation production for long term catchment planing and south-eastern Australia. Ecological Modelling, Volume 166, Iss. 1 - 2



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