Useful Weblinks
Useful Weblinks
Web link 2.1
Link to the Bureau of Meteorology website
Web link 2.2
Rainfall can be continuously estimated from radar aboard satellites and is available on line.
Check out the US Navy's estimates of rainfall for Australia:
www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/rain.cgi?GEO=aus
Look at the radar rainfall intensity estimates from ground based radar. These are updated every 10 minutes.
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/
Hourly reports from automatic weather stations are available on the BOM website. For example, latest observations for NSW are at:
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65091.shtml
Check out the latest precipitation measurements in Antarctica
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDY03029.txt
The information on the weather is available in real time for some stations, check out the conditions at Monash University:
http://arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/climate/weather/
For more traditional data, check the Bureau of Meteorology's daily rainfall bulletin for Tasmania. This will include data from both automatic and manually read rain gauges
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDT60128.html
Web Links 2.3
Link to climate data from the Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/
Web Links 2.4
Link to Rainman
Web Links 2.5
Link to Victorian data warehouse
Link to South Australia's Surface Water Archive
http://e-nrims.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/swa/
Web Links 2.6
Link to rainfall information in Melbourne and the Melbourne Water Catchments:
Web Links 2.7
Link to information about the Patched Point and Data Drill datasets of daily rainfall on the internet
www.nrm.qld.gov.au/silo/ppd/PPD_frameset.html
http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
These services require payment but you can order a small dataset for free.
Web Link 3.1
There is a Relative humidity calculator based on wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures on the internet at
http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/humid.htm
Web Link 3.2
Latitudes and longitudes of many places in Australia are listed on the Geoscience of Australia web site
Sunrise and sunset times for any location in the world
Web link 3.3
Link to satellite observed global solar radiation measurements
www.bom.gov.au/reguser/by_prod/radiation/index.shtml
Web link 3.4
Link to the SILO service
http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
Web link 3.5
Link to the daily weather observations at the Bureau of Meteorology
Web link 3.6
Link to the evapotranspiration project at the Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures
www.irrigationfutures.org.au/projects.asp?ID=23
Web link 3.7
Evapotranspiration maps from the climate atlas of Australia are available on the internet
www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/climatology/evapotrans/et.shtml
Web Link 4.1
www.civag.unimelb.edu.au/~western/tarrawarra/tarrawarra.html
Web link 5.2
The Bureau of Meteorology provides a daily river height bulletin.
See river heights and plots for Queensland at
www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/rain_river.shtml
Web link 5.3
Web link 5.4
www.nrw.qld.gov.au/watershed/index.html
Web link 5.5
http://e-nrims.dwlbc.sa.gov.au/swa/
Web link 5.6
http://www.connectedwater.gov.au/resources/Hydrology_Data.html
Web link 5.7
Web link 5.8
http://water.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/wist/ui
Web Link-5.9
Tools to infill missing data are provided in the River Analysis Package, which also provides a tool to search for periods where data have been infilled by linear interpolation
Web link 5.10
TREND: trend/change detection software. TREND has 12 statistical test for detecting trend/change and randomness in time series data (including calculation of autocorrelation).
Web link 5.11
Calculation of the baseflow index (BFI) can be undertaken with the River Analysis Package (RAP) available online.
Web link 5.12
Automated calculation of the base flow recession constant from recorded daily flows is included as part of the fcfc computer package
Note that the baseflow recession constant calculated by fcfc is 1 minus the value used in most other publications.
Web link 6.1
Read about a flood that happened in Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology has brief descriptions of historical floods:
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/flood.htm
Web Link 6.2
Details of the forth coming 4th edition of Australian Rainfall and Runoff are available from:
Web link 6.3
The program TREND is available at www.toolkit.net.au/trend
TREND is designed to facilitate statistical testing for trend, change and randomness in hydrological and other time series data. TREND has 12 statistical tests, based on the WMO/UNESCO Expert Workshop on Trend/Change Detection and on the CRC for Catchment Hydrology publication 'Hydrological Recipes: Estimation Techniques in Australian Hydrology' by Grayson et al.
www.catchment.crc.org.au/pdfs/hydrorecipes.pdf
Web link 6.4
Extension of gauged records (and many other useful statistical methods) are covered in:
Helsel, D.R. and Hirsch, R.M. (1991) Statistical Methods in Water Resources, U.S. Geological Survey
A free download from: http://pubs.usgs.gov/twri/twri4a3/html/pdf_new.html
MOVE (Maintenance of Variance Extension) called LOC (Line of Organic Correlation) by Helsel and Hirsh, is covered in Chapter 10, section 10.2.2.
Web link 6.5
There are some excellent websites that allow exploration of the normal distribution.
For example:
www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/NormalDistribution/
Web Link 7.1
Information on the CDIRS database can be obtained from the Bureau of Meteorology website
www.bom.gov.au/hydro/has/ifd.shtml
Web Link 7.2
Two programs that can be used to calculate IFD curves are
AusIFD: www.ens.gu.edu.au/eve/Research/AusIfd/AusIfdVer2.htm
Web Link 7.3
The Latitude and Longitude of named locations can be found using the place name search tool from Geoscience Australia
Google Earth lists Latitude and Longitude as you move your mouse around the screen so can be used to estimate the location of a catchment centroid
Google Local also lists Latitude and Longitude as part of the information provided if you click ‘link to this page' or ‘Email' once you've found the catchment centroid.
Web link 9.1
The runoff routing programs RORB and WBNM are both available as free downloads
RORB
WBMN
Watershed Bounded Network Model
http://www.rienco.com.au/index.php?v=Software_Development&id=1
Web link 10.1
Rainfall-runoff Library
Web Link 10.2
Several rainfall runoff models are available fromwww.toolkit.net.au
Web link 11.1
Learn about "The Living Murray Process" where the Murray-Darling Basin Commission and six participating governments, including the State Government of Victoria, are looking at ways of improving the ecological health of the Murray River by reducing the amount of water that is extracted:
www.mdbc.gov.au/TLM/thelivingmurray.html
Web Link 11.2
The status of the water storages of Australia's major cities are available on the Internet.
Brisbane's water storages
http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/dam-levels
Perth's Water storages
www.watercorporation.com.au/d/dams_storage.cfm
Melbourne's water storages
www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water/weekly_water_update/weekly_water_update.asp
Weblink 11.3
ProUCL
http://www.epa.gov/esd/tsc/software.htm
Although ProUCL is intended for calculating statistics related to the risk of expose from contaminated sites it does provide procedures that may be useful for hydrology. In particular, goodness-of-fit tests are provided for the Normal, Log-Normal or Gamma distributions.
The software is free to download.
This page was last
updated in January 2010.
Please advise Tony Ladson tony.ladson@gmail.com of any broken links.