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Understanding the effect of climate change on runoff variability and water resource systems performance

Description: This project aims to assess the impacts of climate changes on annual runoff variability. Understanding variability of annual runoff is important in managing water resources, in catchment and stream management, and to researchers in hydrology, stream ecology and fluvial geomorphology. Expected outcomes from this research are an estimate of impact on the variability of annual runoff from future climate change, improvement in understanding the processes that operate on the variability of annual runoff, and an assessment of the performance of water resource systems under a changing climate.

Funder: Australian Research Council

Amount: A$240,300

Funding type: research

Funder scheme: Discovery Projects

Start date: 2004-01-01

End date: 2006-12-31

Investigator: Em/Prof McMahon

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Topic: Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Subfield: Water Science and Technology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences