Astronomy and Meteorology in Australia

Meteorology and Agroforestry Meteorology and Agroforestry

The physical environment affects and interacts with agroforestry systems through tree and crop growth, animal performance, management operations and interactions between the tree/shrub and non-tree components (abbreviated to tree/crop interactions). Interactions take place mainly through the media of microclimate, soil moisture and soil. They may have beneficial or adverse effects, for tree and...

Australia s Astronomy Program on the Antarctic Plateau

The Antarctic plateau o ers the promise of the best site conditions on the surface of the Earth for a wide range of astronomical observations This is a result of the unique combination of cold dry and tenuous air that is only found there The Plateau reaches an elevation of over m has average winter time temperatures of C and has a precipitable water vapour column which can fall below m Winds ar...

1 Meteorology and Oceanography

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The temperature of the Earth is rising, and is highly likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The study of the effects of sustained heating on the ecosystems of theworld is necessary so thatwemight predict and respond to coming changes on both large and small spatial scales. To this end, ecosystem warming studies have been performed formore than 20 years using a variety ofmethod...

Physical Meteorology