Learning from the past - Using palaeoclimate data to better understand and manage drought in South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia

被引:23
作者
Kiem, Anthony S. [1 ]
Vance, Tessa R. [2 ]
Tozer, Carly R. [3 ]
Roberts, Jason L. [4 ]
Pozza, Ramona Dalla [5 ]
Vitkovsky, John [6 ]
Smolders, Kate [7 ]
Curran, Mark A. J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Newcastle, Fac Sci, Ctr Water Climate & Land CWCL, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
[2] Univ Tasmania, Inst Marine & Antarct Studies, Hobart, Tas 7004, Australia
[3] CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tas, Australia
[4] Australian Antarctic Div, Kingston, Tas 7050, Australia
[5] Dept Environm Land Water & Planning, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia
[6] Queensland Hydrol, Dept Environm & Sci, Dutton Pk, Qld 4102, Australia
[7] Seqwater, Ipswich, Qld 4305, Australia
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Palaeoclimate; Drought; Hydroclimatic risk; Climate variability; Climate change; DOME ICE CORE; RAINFALL; OSCILLATION; VARIABILITY; ENSO; RESOURCES; IMPACT; RECORD; MODEL; PROXY;
D O I
10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100686
中图分类号
TV21 [水资源调查与水利规划];
学科分类号
081501 ;
摘要
Study region: South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia. Study focus: Decision makers in the water sector need to deal with uncertainty about the impacts of climate variability and change. Identifying solutions for hydroclimatic risk adaptation strategies that are both optimal and robust in the presence of this uncertainty presents a difficult challenge. The instrumental hydroclimatic record in Australia is short (similar to 60-120 years depending on location and variable), and fails to encompass enough climate variability to allow the calculation of robust statistics around the baseline risk of extreme events (i.e. multi-year droughts, decadal periods with clustering of major flood events). This paper (i) demonstrates how palaeoclimate data can be used to better understand what is possible with respect to drought frequency and duration in South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia and (ii) investigates some implications from palaeoclimate data for drought planning, drought management and water security decision making. New hydrological insights for the region: The instrumental period is not representative of the full range of past climate variability. Droughts worse than those in the instrumental record are not only possible, but likely, and the probability of conditions drier than the worst on instrumental record is not zero. This means that current drought risk estimates are at best misleading and probably convey a false sense of security that is not justified given the insights now available from palaeoclimate data.
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