This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.Laboratory and fieldwork.
This subject aims at understanding natural hydroclimatological variability through the analysis of past records of environmental change. It introduces the contemporary (present day) processes controlling the behaviour of water in the atmosphere and at the Earth's surface, and draws students' attention to potential future challenges in hydroclimatology resulting from increasing human impact upon the atmosphere-land-water system. This subject will address these issues using hypothetical and 'real-life' examples within lectures.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Environmental Sciences
HYD200
Introduction to hydroclimatology and scope of the subject; Advanced aspects of global and Australian climate; Global heat balance and water balance; Stefan-Boltzmann law of radiation; Significance of radiation and atmospheric moisture in formation of weather systems and climate; Ralationships among temperature, humidity, vapour pressure and elevations; Advanced techniques for measurement of spatial and temporal variability of rainfall patterns; Atmospheric and ocean circulations, trade-winds and their implications; Implications of climate change and climate variability; Instrumentation for measurement (both online and offline) of meteorological and climatic parameters; Sources of climate data collation and retrieval; Climate variability indices and their significance and application; Global circulation models and climate prediction; Weather forecast and synoptic charts; Global warming and sea level rise; Hydroclimatic aspects of water virtual trading; Energy balance at farm level; Case studies and field examples related to the climate and water resources.
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.Laboratory and fieldwork.
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