Living with floods: Key lessons from Australia and abroad In addition to analysing the Australian flood reviews, the project also compared review processes and findings with similar processes overseas, including those in the Netherlands, China and the United States, to determine points of ... C We...
Impact of extreme rainfall in the central Sudan during 1999 as a partial analogue for reconstructing early Holocene prehistoric environments The year 1999 was an exceptionally wet year, with severe floods in China, India and Australia and very high flow in the Nile. In Sudan, the July rainfall ...
In this study, we adopt a spatial quasi‐experimental analysis using the release of flood risk maps by Brisbane City Council in Queensland, Australia, in 2009 and the actual floods of 2011. The results suggest that property buyers are more responsive to the actual incidence of floods than to ...
Flood-driven formation and destruction of a forested flood plain and in-channel benches on a bedrock-confined stream: Wheeny Creek, southeast Australia Sandy vertically accreted floodplains are common on sand-bed streams near Sydney, Australia, that are laterally confined by Triassic quartzose sandsto...
The ‘special report’ published in May 2022 was intended as a ‘formal record of the extreme rainfall and flooding that occurred in south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales in February and March this year’, that is according tothe associated media release. Yet there is no actual ...
Otherwise, we know what will happen to these events in the future, Prof Allan says. "The intensity of rainfall and these weather events will only get worse." Map by Muskeen Liddar.
Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said Friday, as they stepped up efforts to feed surviving livestock. Incessant rains over an almost two-week period have flooded swathes of Queensla...
This study focuses on the assessment of the impact of climate changes on design rainfall using data from New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Future stationary and non-stationary intensity–frequency–duration (IFD) curves have been estimated using generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution. The ...
A. 30 m resolution surface water mask including estimation of positional and thematic differences using Landsat 8, SRTM and OpenStreetMap: a case study in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Remote Sens. 8, 386 (2016). Article ADS Google Scholar Verpoorter, C., Kutser, T. & Tranvik,...
Fine‐suspended sediment and water budgets for a large, seasonally dry tropical catchment: Burdekin River catchment, Queensland, Australia The location of the ungauged minor tributary sample sites are also displayed as gray circles across the catchment. 900 m in height also form the western... ZT...