Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879763

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879763

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Water availability, evaporative demand and climate change. Water availability is the balance between supply (i.e., rainfall) and evaporative demand. Rainfall is well studied but evaporative demand is not. The scientifically useful measure of evaporative demand is the rate of evaporation of water from a metal pan - called pan evaporation. Worldwide measurements show decreasing pan evaporation rate over the last 30-50 years. This project will for the first time make a detailed study of that phenomenon using a new purpose-built evaporation pan. This will result in better information and policy advice about changes in water availability with climate change.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 30-06-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $370,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Global Change Biology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology | Meteorology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Water services and utilities | Climate change |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Global Change Biology | Meteorology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology | Water services and utilities

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