This is a list of key references related to past and current projects undertaken by our staff and collaborators. In some cases abstracts of these documents and/or full versions are made available for download.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zhang, X., Lee, J., Abawi, Y., Kim, Y., McClymont, D., & Kim, H. (2007). Testing the simulation capability of APSIM-ORYZA under different levels of nitrogen fertiliser and transplanting time regimes in Korea. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 47(12), 1446–1454.
Henry, B., Mitchell, C., Cowie, A., Woldring, O., & Carter, J. (2005). A regional interpretation of rules and good practice for greenhouse accounting: northern Australia savannah systems. Australian Journal of Botany, 53(7), 589-605.
Hill, M. J., Roxburgh, S. H., Carter, J. O., & McKeon, G. M. (2005). Vegetation state change and consequent carbon dynamics in savanna woodlands of Australia in response to grazing, drought and fire: A scenario approach using 113 years of synthetic annual fire and grassland growth. Australian Journal of Botany, 53(8), 715-739.
de Vries, J. J., Waldron, J., & Cunningham, V. (2003). Field tests of the new Datawell DWR-G GPS wave buoy. Sea Technology, 44(12), 50-55.
Treloar, N. C. (2002). Luni-solar tidal influences on climate variability. International Journal of Climatology, 22(12), 1527–1542.
Jeffrey, S. J., Carter, J. O., Moodie, K. B., Beswick, A. R. (2001). Using spatial interpolation to construct a comprehensive archive of Australian climate data. Environmental Modeling & Software, 16(4), 309-330.
Hall, W. B., McKeon, G. M., Carter, J. O., Day, K. A., Howden, S. M., Scanlan, J. C., Johnston, P. W., & Burrows, W. (1998). An assessment of potential climate change impacts on regional beef productivity in Queensland from native pastures. The Rangeland Journal, 20(2), 177-205.
McKeon, G. M., Hall, W. B., Crimp, S. J., Howden, S. M., Stone R. C., & Jones D. A. (1998). Climate Change in Queensland's Grazing Lands: Approaches and Climatic Trends. The Rangeland Journal, 20(2), 151-176.