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Water and Energy Cycle of the Murray-Darling Basin Workshop 2009 Program Monday 6th April 9:20 Welcome, background and aims (Jason Evans, UNSW) 9:30 MDBA, Current activities and Future aims (Jason Alexandra, MDBA) 10:00 Progress since the 2007 water budget modelling workshop (Mike Manton, Monash University) 10:30 Coffee break Soil moisture / groundwater11:00 The Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (CGRT): a new opportunity for integrated catchment monitoring and improved hydrological understanding. (Ian Ackworth/Matt McCabe, UNSW) 11:30 MoistureMap & SMOS validation campaigns (Chris Rudiger, University of Melbourne) 12:00 AWAP Soil Moisture: ENSO and IOD Signatures in the MDB (Peter Briggs, CSIRO) 12:30 Lunch Land surface / Hydrology 13:30 Historical and future water availability across the Murray-Darling Basin (Francis Chiew, CSIRO) 14:00 WIRADA (Albert Van Dijk, CSIRO) 14:30 Modelling activities to support extended hydrological predictions (Narendra Tuteja, BoM Water) 15:00 Coffee break 15:30 Constraints and opportunities for improved hydrological modelling: climate and land use change impacts (Barry Croke, ANU) 16:00 Water isotope modelling in the MDB: nudged iso-GCM runs (Matthew Fischer, ANSTO) 16:30 Discussion 17:00 Close - Ice Breaker Drinks 19:00 Workshop dinner Tuesday 7th April DSS and vegetation 9:00 Decision Support approaches for assessing climate change impacts: with some examples from MDB catchments (Tony Jakeman, ANU) 9:30 Potential impacts of elevated CO2 on vegetation water use in the MDB - implications of the Hawkesbury Forest Experiment (Remko Duursma/Belinda Medlyn, Macquarie University) 10:00 Are climate model projections over the MDB biased by non-parameterization of the impact of increasing CO2 on stomates? (Andy Pitman, UNSW) 10:30 Coffee break Atmosphere 11:00 ACCESS - overview and status (Kamal Puri, CAWCR BoM) 11:30 CAWCR-WIRADA collaborations (Helen Cleugh, CAWCR CSIRO) 12:00 The role of the Indian Ocean for Southeast Australian Droughts (Caroline Ummenhofer, UNSW) 12:30 Climate change and water resources management: Should raw GCM simulations be used? (Fiona Johnson, UNSW) 13:00 Lunch CEOP - MDB RHP 14:00 CEOP, MOLTS, ACCESS and MDB (Lawrie Rikus, CAWCR BoM)14:30 GEWEX - CEOP - MDB RHP (Jason Evans, UNSW) 15:00 Discussion/Coffee 15:30 Discussion
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