Cli - Manage 2000

Albury, NSW   23-25 October, 2000


Aims

Areas of discussion

Aims

Cli-Manage 2000 is a conference on managing for climate variability and climate change. The main aim is to improve the ability of Australians to make better decisions affected by climate variability. To do this we will identify important decisions that need to be made which are related to climate and then

  • ascertain what is the most relevant climate information available 
  • develop/explore strategies for managing with climate variability
  • review the scientific basis of climate information
  • discuss successful case studies
  • review existing decision support tools
  • review climate variability during the twentieth century
  • identify where gaps exist in our current understanding or in the provision of services
  • develop closer links between service providers like the National Climate Centre and the people who could potentially use the  information  provided
  • assist in providing information in a form that can be more easily factored into decision making
  • make recommendations on where further work or research would be advantageous

 Areas of discussion include the following:

  • Agriculture (sustainability, salinity, models for optimizing cropping calendars/fertilizer application/stocking rates/profit)
  • Water supply (skill in rainfall forecasts, influence of El Niño/La Niña and the world's oceans on Australian rainfall, global warming and rainfall change, water demand forecasts, dam requirements, environmental flows, water quality, algal outbreaks)
  • Energy supply (links between energy demand and temperature, skill in temperature forecasts, applications of temperature forecasts)
  • Natural disasters (drought, flood, fire, hail, cyclones, wind, lightning, heat, frost)
  • Urban design/infrastructure (coastal storm surge, sea level rise, inundation modelling, changing flood probabilities, design of roads/dams/drains/bridges/buildings affected by flooding)
  • Tourism (Great Barrier Reef, cyclones, wineries, alpine recreation, boating)
  • Resource management (coal and uranium mining, logging, natural reserves, fisheries)