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Delivering quality climate-related information for Queensland
Queensland’s ability to address the challenges of climate change, climate variability and climate extremes depends on the availability of high quality, ready-to-use and timely climate-related information. The Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence (QCCCE) is focused on delivering relevant climate-related information, not only for Queensland, but for Australia as a whole.
The QCCCE provides access to the following key products and services through the Long Paddock website:
- AussieGRASS environmental calculator – system provides:
- historical rainfall maps from 1890
- pasture growth, biomass and grass fire risk maps from 2000
- pasture growth outlooks
- Australia’s Variable Rainfall poster – Annual rainfall relative to historical records from 1890, including SOI and IPO time series
- FORAGE - a web-based system which generates and distributes information relating to climate and pasture conditions at user-specified locations
- Publications - a list of QCCCE scientific publications and downloadable reports
- Queensland drought monitor – reports back to 1995, include a climate summary and outlook, drought declarations and information related to livestock and pasture
- Sea surface temperature anomaly maps – global sea surface temperature anomaly maps from 1982
- Seasonal climate outlook – based on the current and projected state of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other factors which influence Queensland’s rainfall
- SILO climate database- Australia-wide patched point and gridded climate datasets from 1889, used for research and modelling
- SOI-Phase system - seasonal rainfall probabilities based on the ‘phases’ of the Southern Oscillation Index
- Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) – an essential index used for monitoring ENSO. Daily SOI values available from 1991 to current and monthly data starting in 1886
- SPOTA-1 (Seasonal Pacific Ocean Temperature Analysis - version 1) - monitors Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from March to October each year to provide long-lead ‘outlooks’ for Queensland summer (November to March) rainfall
- The Climate Change Risk Management Matrix - a risk management tool to assist industry, regional groups, business, local government and others to address the uncertainties in the scale and distribution of current and future climate change
Last updated 7 December 2011