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Drought and Climate Extremes Research


Published 12 May 2022

This is the list of publications on Drought and Climate extremes produced by the DPI Climate team. Publications are listed from new to older.

Zhu Q, Wurtzel J, Clark AJ, Broadfoot K (2021) " Evaluate soil moisture products for drought monitoring in southeast Australia." In 24nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM), Sydney, Australia, 2021.

Abram, N.J., Henley, B.J., Sen Gupta, A., Lippmann, T.J.R., Clarke, H., Dowdy, A.J., Sharples, J.J., Nolan, R.H., Zhang, T., Wooster, M.J., Wurtzel, J.B., Meissner, K.J., Pitman, A.J., Ukkola, A.M., Murphy, B.P., Tapper, N.J., Boer, M.M., 2021. Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia. Communications Earth & Environment 2, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00065-8

Zhu, Q., Yang, X., Clark, A. J. "Post-fire Erosion and Recovery in Warrumbungle National Park – An Outlook.” In 10th Australian Stream Management Conference. Online, 2021.

Zhu, Q., Yang, X., Ji, F., Liu, D.L. and Yu, Q. 2020. Extreme rainfall, rainfall erosivity and hillslope erosion in the Australian Alpine Region and their future changes. International Journal of Climatology, 40(2): 1213-1227. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6266

Zhu Q, Clark AJ, Wurtzel J, Broadfoot K, Wallace S (2020) "Assessing potential evaporation for drought modelling in southeast Australia under climate change. " American Geophysical Union congress Fall Meeting (AGU), 2020. http://agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=54-05-2B-B9-35-B2-09-95-51-2F-E9-33-83-AB-7E-81

Wurtzel, J. B., A. J. Clark, K. Broadfoot, S. Wallace, Q. Zhu, A multi-indicator perspective on the history of drought in New South Wales, Australia, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (2020), Perth, WA, AUS

Zhu, Q., Clark, A. J, Wurtzel, J., Broadfoot, K. and Wallace, S. "Assessing potential evaporation for drought modelling in southeast Australia under climate change. " American Geophysical Union congress Fall Meeting (AGU), 2020. http://agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx?s=54-05-2B-B9-35-B2-09-95-51-2F-E9-33-83-AB-7E-81

Clark A, Wurtzel J, Zhu Q, Broadfoot K, Wallace S (2019) NSW Climate Change Strategy for Primary Industries Vulnerability Assessment: Special Report on Drought. Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney (government report

Broadfoot K (2015) Projections of South Eastern Australia drought under climate change: Implications of different downscaling-impact model pathways. In Greenhouse2015, Hobart