Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669104

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669104

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Water resource management of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme catchment and the Murray-Darling River system - a new perspective on system reliability from drought history reconstruction. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme assists in underwriting the production of $3 billion of agricultural products in the Murray-Darling Basin each year by providing a reliable source of water west of the Great Dividing Range, while Hydro-electric generation from the Scheme is worth annually several hundred million dollars and provides 70% of the renewable energy supplied to the eastern mainland grid, thereby avoiding 5Mt of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This study will ensure the ongoing sustainable and efficient management of the Schemes water resources in response to predicted climate variability and most importantly, severe drought.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2006

End Date: 01-11-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $263,340.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Global climate change adaptation measures | Hydro-electric |

Other Keywords

Climate variability | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Global climate change adaptation measures | Hydro-electric | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

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