ewb climate analysis
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Climate Impacts on the Eastern WheatbeltTim Scanlon
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Contents• Nothing surprising in the analysis• Looked at two zones so far
• 16 sites in Westonia and Yilgarn• 69 sites in Mt Marshall to Narembeen
• Major changes in January and May-July rainfall• Significant changes in temperatures
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WA Rainfall Change Isohyets
Equivalent of moving 50 km
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Something happening since 2000?
England, Ummenhoffer and Santosa, 2006
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Something happening since 2000?
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EWB Rainfall
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Decadal Trends Since 1900
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GSR Decile Changes
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Changes in deciles
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EWB Site Rainfall Ranges
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EWB Temperature
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EWB Monthly Temperature
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EWB Change in Temperature
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Westonia-Yilgarn Rainfall
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Westonia-Yilgarn Temperature
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Yields?
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Summary
SummaryGrowing season rainfall has decreased 43.8mm (19%).
Mostly a loss in May and June rainfall.
Gains in summer rainfall, particularly January, of 32.5mm (60%).
Annual rainfall only declined 10.5mm as a result (3.5%).
Summer rainfall highly variable, one in three years.
The annual average temperature increases of 0.7 (maxima) and 0.26 (minima).
These are in line with current analyses and predictions from the literature.
Early (April-June) and late (Oct) season much hotter.
Mid season overnight colder (June-Sept).
Temperature increases and winter season dominance mean the summer gains of little value to plants.
The rainfall changes are the changes expected by mid-century. Mid-century figures will need a rethink.
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Projected rainfall changes for end of century
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WA Rainfall Change Isohyets
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Summary
SummaryGrowing season rainfall has decreased between 20 and 45mm.
Mostly a loss in May and June rainfall.
Gains in summer rainfall, particularly January, offset the annual rainfall figures.
Temperature increases and season winter season dominance mean the summer gains of little value to plants.
The temperature changes are in line with current analyses and predictions from the literature.
The rainfall changes are the changes expected by mid-century. Mid-century figures will need a rethink.
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2000 - 2013Yields from ABARES, and estimated from GIWA for 2013/14.
WA Wheat Production and Seasonal Rainfall
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Seasonal rainfall and productionYear MAM JJA ASO May-Oct Production 2000 B B B B 5.82001 B B N-A B 7.82002 B B B B 4.02003 A N-A A N-A 11.12004 B N-B N-A N-B 8.62005 A N-B A A 9.12006 B B N-B B 5.12007 B B N-B B 5.82008 N B N-A B 8.32009 B N-A N N-B 8.12010 B B B B 5.02011 B A A N-A 11.02012 B B B B 6.62013 A B A N-B 15.2
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Indian Ocean Climate InitiativeKey findings include:
❖ Winter rainfall has decreased sharply and suddenly in the region since the mid
70s.
❖ The decline was not gradual but more of a switching to an alternative rainfall
regime.
❖ The rainfall decrease accompanied and was apparently associated with,
documented change in large scale atmospheric circulation at the time.
❖ The decrease in rainfall, and associated circulation changes, bear some
resemblance to model projections for an enhanced greenhouse effect (EGE) but
are not sufficiently similar to indicate, beyond doubt, that the EGE is responsible.
❖ Most likely both natural variability and the EGE have contributed to the rainfall
decrease.
1975 and 2000 “special dates”
2000 thought to be because of post 1998 El Nino ENSO phase with a greater
proportion of heat being accumulated in the oceans.
Climate changes for post 2000
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Pre versus Post 2000?
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Something happening since 2000
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Scan statistic for 5 year window by Karyn Reeves and Mario D’Antuono.
Scan statistic for pre versus post 2000
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