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Regional significance of historical trends and step changes in Australian streamflow
Gnanathikkam Emmanuel Amirthanathan
Community Services, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
Mohammed Abdul Bari
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Science and Innovation, Bureau of Meteorology, Perth, Australia
Fitsum Markos Woldemeskel
Community Services, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
Narendra Kumar Tuteja
Science and Innovation, Bureau of Meteorology, Canberra, Australia
current address: Strategy and Performance, WaterNSW, Sydney, Australia
Paul Martinus Feikema
Community Services, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
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Streamflow forecasts a day to a month ahead are highly valuable for water resources management. Current practice often develops forecasts for specific lead times and aggregation timescales. In contrast, a single, seamless forecast can serve multiple lead times/timescales. This study shows seamless forecasts can match the performance of forecasts developed specifically at the monthly scale, while maintaining quality at other lead times. Hence, users need not sacrifice capability for performance.
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Methodology for developing an operational 7-day ensemble streamflow forecasting service for Australia is presented. The methodology is tested for 100 catchments to learn the characteristics of different NWP rainfall forecasts, the effect of post-processing, and the optimal ensemble size and bootstrapping parameters. Forecasts are generated using NWP rainfall products post-processed by the CHyPP model, the GR4H hydrologic model, and the ERRIS streamflow post-processor inbuilt in the SWIFT package
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We used statistical tests to detect annual and seasonal streamflow trends and step changes across Australia. The Murray–Darling Basin and other rivers in the southern and north-eastern areas showed decreasing trends. Only rivers in the Timor Sea region in northern Australia showed significant increasing trends. Our results assist with infrastructure planning and management of water resources. This study was undertaken by the Bureau of Meteorology with its responsibility under the Water Act 2007.
We used statistical tests to detect annual and seasonal streamflow trends and step changes...
