Australian Water Information Dictionary

Alphabetical list of items

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Land not covered by vegetation that does not fall into any other land use/cover category. It includes eroded areas and construction sites.

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The component of streamflow supplied by groundwater discharge.

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A tract of country, generally larger catchment areas, drained by a river and its tributaries.

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A modelling system that uses statistical methods to produce predictions of seasonal streamflows. BJP was developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). See the Seasonal Streamflow Forecast Research papers section for more information.

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Bayesian joint probability

A modelling system that uses statistical methods to produce predictions of seasonal streamflows. BJP was developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). See the Seasonal Streamflow Forecast Research papers section for more information.

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The typical depiction of a river or stream in a cartographic product.

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A hole drilled in the ground, a well or any other excavation used to access groundwater. May be used for observation of groundwater (including water level, pressure or water quality).

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Farms or industries engaged in the production of grains, oilseeds and other crops (especially wheat, barley, peas, sorghum, maize, hemp, safflower and sunflower), or the grazing of livestock for meat or wool, on a large scale.

Source: © Organisation for Ecomonic Co-operation and Development, Glossary of Statistical Terms, Viewed 5 October 2011, http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=235

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The volume of water diverted from streams and storages (surface water) or extracted from bores (groundwater) by water providers for various uses.

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A water access entitlement allowing an infrastructure operator to access, take and hold water for the supply of water to another person.

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The aggregation of individual rights into a single right. These might include but are not limited to: land property title, water access entitlement, water allocations, water use rights, delivery rights, irrigation rights and works approvals.

Equivalent: water market equivalent terms

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Bureau of Meteorology

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