Observing, monitoring and forecasting drought developments in Australia

Van Dijk, Albert; Renzullo, Luigi J; Liu, Yi Y.; Guerschman , Juan Pablo

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Observing, monitoring and forecasting drought developments in Australia

Date

2011

Authors

Van Dijk, Albert

Renzullo, Luigi J

Liu, Yi Y.

Guerschman , Juan Pablo

Publisher

IEEE

Abstract

• Drought has many faces, monitoring them requires a vast range of observations • Key questions: who is affected, how bad is it, who's fault is it, and will it get better? • Recent legislation has made the Bureau of Meteorology the natural home for