Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0772665

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0772665

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Vulnerability of the Murray-Darling basin hydrometeorology to human modification. The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) provides 40 per cent of Australia's agricultural production. Some 1,500,000 hectares use irrigation for agriculture and year-to-year variations in productivity highlights a basin that is vulnerable to changes resulting from human activity. This proposal builds an integrated modelling system of the MDB to understand its hydrology and meteorology in the context of human modification to climate and to land use in the basin. The improved understanding of the MDB will allow science-aware policy developments that reduce the vulnerability of agriculture and water resources within the basin to future changes caused through human activity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 23-07-2007

End Date: 22-07-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $658,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Soil Physics | Hydrology Not Elsewhere Classified | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Atmospheric Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Land and water management | Land and water management | Land and water management |

Other Keywords

Atmospheric Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Hydrology Not Elsewhere Classified | Land and water management | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Soil Physics

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