Publications

McKeon, G. M., Stone, G. S., Syktus, J. I., Carter, J. O., Fraser, G. W., Crimp, S. J., & Howden, S. M. (2009). Climate change impacts on rangeland livestock carrying capacity: More questions than answers. In Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Australian Rangeland Society Conference. A Climate of change in the rangelands. Charters Towers, Australia.

Wheeler, M. C., Hendo, H. H., Cleland, S., Meinke, H., & Donald, A., (2009). Impacts of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Australian rainfall and circulation. Journal of Climate, 22(6), 1482–1498. 

Abawi, Y., Llanso, P., Harrison, M., & Mason, S. (2008). Water, health and early warnings. In A. Troccoli, M. Harrison, D. L. T. Anderson, & S. J. Mason (Eds.), Seasonal climate: Forecasting and managing risk (pp. 361-410). Berlin Heidelberg. Springer.

Bastin, G., Abbott, B., & Chewings, V. (2008). Validating a remotely sensed index of landscape leakiness in the Burdekin Dry Tropics, Queensland (Report for the Reef Catchment Systems Project, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship [Healthy Water Ecosystems Theme]). CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship.

Brown, I. W., Scandol, J., Mayer, D., Campbell, M., Kondylas, S., McLennan, M., Williams, A., Krusic-Golub, K., & Treloar, T. (2008). Reducing uncertainty in the assessment of the Australian spanner crab fishery: Final report on Project 2003/06 to the Fishing Industry Reseach and Development Corporation. Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland Government.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2008). Impacts and adaptation to climate change in beef production systems in central Queensland. In Proceedings of the International Grasslands and Rangelands Congress (Vol. 1, p. 877). Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China.  

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2008). Impacts of climate change on regulated and non-regulated water systems in Australia. In Proceedings of the International Grasslands and Rangelands Congress (Vol. 1, p. 826). Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China.

Cobon, D. H., Bell, K. L., Park, J. N., & Keogh, D. U. (2008). Summative evaluation of climate application activities with pastoralistists in western Queensland. The Rangland Journal, 30, 361-374.   

Henry, B., Johnsson, I., Fraser, G., Carter, J., & Bray, S. (2008). Soil carbon: measurement issues and mitigation options – land use. In Proceedings of the Australian Farm Institute Conference. Gold Coast, Australia. 

Jones, P., Silcock, R., & Stone, G. (2008). Grazing land in “A” condition is stable and resilient. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Kucharski, F., Scaife, A. A., Yoo, J. H., Folland, C. K., Kinter, J., Knight, J., Fereday, D., Fischer, A. M., Jin, E. K., Kröger, J., Lau, N.-C., Nakaegawa, T. M., Nath, J., Pegion, P., Rozanov, E., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P. V., Syktus, J., Voldoire, A., Yoon, J. H., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2008). The CLIVAR C20C Project: skill of simulating Indian monsoon rainfall on interannual to decadal timescales: Does GHG forcing play a role? Climate Dynamics. 

Lehmann, J., Skjemstad, J., Sohi, S., Carter, J., Barson, M., Falloon, P., Coleman, K., Woodbury, P., & Krull, E. (2008). Australian climate-carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon. Nature Geoscience, 832-835.

McKeon, G., Chilcott, C., McGrath, W., Paton, C., Fraser, G., Stone G. and Ryan, J. (2008). ‘Assessing the value of trees in sustainable grazing systems’ (NBP.316). Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Environmental Protection Agency. Published July 2008, Meat & Livestock Australia, NSW.  

McKeon, G. M., Flood, N., Carter, J. O., Stone, G. S., Crimp, S. J., & Howden, S. M. (2008). Simulation of climate change impacts on livestock carrying capacity and production for the Garnaut Climate Change Review.   

Rayner D., Wall, C., Willcocks, J., Barley, R., & Prior, K. (2008). Climate and greenhouse. In The state of environment in Queensland: Atmosphere (pp. 48-61). Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government. 

Scaife A. A., Kucharski, F., Folland, C. K., Kinter, J., Brönnimann, S., Fereday, D., Fischer, A. M., Grainger, S., Jin, E. K., Kang, I. S., Knight, J. R., Kusunoki, S., Lau, N. C., Nath, M. J., Nakaegawa, T., Pegion P., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P., Syktus, J., Yoon, J. H., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2008). The CLIVAR C20C Project: Selected 20th Century climate events. Climate Dynamics. 

Stokes, C. J., Crimp, S., Gifford, R., Stone, G., Cobon, D., Ash, A., Howden, S. M., & McKeon, G. (2008). Broad acre grazing. In S. J. Stokes & S. M. Howden (Eds.), An overview of climate change adaptation in Australian primary industries: Impacts, options and priorities. CSIRO.

Syktus, J., & Jeffrey, S. (2008). Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. In The state of environment in Queensland, Atmosphere (pp. 62-74). 

Stone, G., Fraser, G., O’Reagain, P., Timmers, P., & Bushell, J. (2008). A new methodology for the calculation of pasture utilisation for grazing lands. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Syktus, J., Jeffrey, S., Williams, A., Smith, I., Rayner, D., Toombs, N., Ahrens, D., Kociuba, G., Peacock, A., & Casaril, C. (2008). Potential effects of climate change on water resources in the Wide Bay-Burnett region. Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence (QCCCE).

The GRASP Modelling Team. (2008). Improving Grazing Management using the GRASP Model (Final Report No. NBP.338). Meat and Livestock Australia.

Timmers, P., Zhang, B., Panjkov, A., Stone, G., & Day, K. (2008). FORAGE – A web-based framework for generating decision support information for sustainable grazing land management. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.  

Williams, A. J., & Stone, R. C. (2008). An assessment of relationships between the Australian subtropical ridge, rainfall variability, and high-latitude circulation patterns'. International Journal of Climatology. International Journal of Climatology. 

Zhang, B. (2008). Climate risk assessment report (prototype). Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government.

Zhang, B., Panjkov, A., & Stone, G. (2008). Guide to using FORAGE (Prototype). Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government.

Zhang, B., Stone, G., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Day, K., Panjkov, A., & McKeon, G. (2008). Quantifying degradation risk – integrating climate risk into rangeland management. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Chilcott, C. R., Dalal, R. C., Parton, W. J., Carter, J. O., & King, A. J. (2007). Long-term trends in fertility of soils under continuous cultivation and cereal cropping in southern Queensland. IX. Simulation of soil carbon and nitrogen pools using CENTURY model. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 45(3), 206–217.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Cooper Creek Catchment. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 483-489). University of Canterbury.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Desert Channels Queensland report: Climate change impacts on the water resources on the Cooper Creek catchment (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Fitzroy Basin Report, Part B: Climate change impacts on the sediment load for the Nogoa catchment of the Fitzroy Basin (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Queenland Case Studies, Fitzroy Basin Report, Part A: Production and natural resource indicators in beef systems under climate change conditions (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra. 

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Queensland Murray Darling Basin Report. Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Queensland Murray Darling Basin (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.  

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: South-East Queensland Western Catchments Report. Climate change impacts on water resources of South-East Queensland Western Catchments (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.  

Cobon, D. H., Toombs, N. R., & Zhang, X. (2007). Climate change impacts on the sediment load for the Nogoa catchment of the Fitzroy Basin. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 853-859). University of Canterbury.

Deo, R. C., McAlpine, C. A., & Syktus, J. (2007). On Australian heat waves: time series analysis of extreme temperature events in Australia 1950 – 2005. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. University of Canterbury.

Donald, A., Lennox, S., Meinke, H., & White, N. C. (2007). The impact of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: bridging the gap between weather and climate. In Proceedings of the 87th American Meteorological Society Conference. San Antonio, TX, United States. 

Henry, B., McKeon, G. M., Syktus, J., Carter, J. O., Day, K. A., & Rayner, D. P. (2007). Climate variability, climate change and land degradation. In M. V. K. Sivakumar & N. Ndiang’ui (Eds.), Climate and land degradation (pp. 205–221). Berlin Heidelberg, Springer. 

Heyhoe, E., Yeon, K, Kokic, P., Levantis, C., Ahammad, H., Schnider, K., Crimp, S., Nelson, R., Flood, N., & Carter, J. (2007). Adapting to climate change: issues and challenges in the agriculture sector. Australian Commodities: 14(1), 167-178. 

Kokic, P., Nelson, R., Meinke, H., Potgieter, A., & Carter, J. (2007). From rainfall to farm incomes – transforming advice for Australian drought policy I: development and testing of a bio-economic modelling system. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 58(10), 993–1003.

Lo, F., Wheeler, M. C., Meinke, H., & Donald, A. (2007). Probabilistic forecasts of the onset of the North Australian wet season. Monthly Weather Review, 135(10).

McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J., Deo, R. C., McGowan, H. A., Watterson, I. G., Phinn, S. R., & Lawrence, P. J. (2007). Modeling the impact of historical land cover change on Australia’s regional climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 34.

McRae, D., Bange, M., & Roth, G. (2007). Climate change in cotton catchment communities – A scoping study. Cotton Catchment Communities CRC for the Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. 

Park, S., Howden, M., Higgins, A., McRae, D., Horan, H., & Hennessy, K. (2007). Climate change: informing the Australian sugar industry of potential impacts, possible strategies for adaptation and best-bet options for future R&D. In S. Park, C. Creighton, & M. Howden, Final report of projects CSE019 and SRD011. Sugar Research and Development Corporation.

Maia, A. de H. N., & Meinke, H. (2007). Quantifying uncertainties associated with climate variability and climate change studies: The Cox’s semiparametric approach. In Program & abstracts of the 10th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (pp. 132–134). Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence. (2007). The South East Queensland Drought to 2007. Department of Natural Resources and Water, Queensland Government. 

Stafford Smith D. M., McKeon G. M., Watson I. W., Henry B. K., Stone G. S., Hall W. B., & Howden S. M. (2007). Land change science special feature: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(52), 20690.

Stone, G., & McKeon, G. (2007). Grazing trials for liveweight gain analyses. In D. Mayer, Improved empirical models of cattle growth, reproduction and mortality from native pastures in northern Australia (Appendix 3). Meat and Livestock Australia 108pp.

Stone, G., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Hassett, R., McKeon, G., & Rayner, D. (2007). Pasture production and condition issue. In The state of environment in Queensland: Land. Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government.

Syktus, J., Deo, R. C., McAlpine, C. A., McGowan, H. A., & Phinn, S. R. (2007). Impact of land cover change on regional climate and El Niño in Australia. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. University of Canterbury.  

Watterson, I. G., & Syktus, J. (2007). The influence of air–sea interaction on the Madden-Julian Oscillation: the role of the seasonal mean state. Climate Dynamics, 28(7–8), 703–722.