Regional Hydroclimate Project:
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MDB (Murray-Darling Basin)
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Murrumbidgee
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Yanco Research (Yanco Research Station)
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Murrumbidgee - Adelong Crawfor
Murrumbidgee - Adelong Keenan
Murrumbidgee - Adelong Rocheda
Murrumbidgee - Adelong Strathv
Murrumbidgee - Adelong Weeroon
Murrumbidgee - Balranald Bolto
Murrumbidgee - Canberra Airpor
Murrumbidgee - Cooma Airfield
Murrumbidgee - Cootamundra Aer
Murrumbidgee - Griffith Aerodr
Murrumbidgee - Hay_Research_St
Murrumbidgee - Yanco Research
Murrumbidgee - Kyeamba Gin Fla
Murrumbidgee - Kyeamba Gin Gen
Murrumbidgee - Kyeamba Kyeamba
Murrumbidgee - Kyeamba Waitara
Murrumbidgee - West Wyalong Ai
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Name: Dr Andrew Western
Affiliation:
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Melbourne 3010
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Not provided.
Telephone: +61 3 8344 7305
Fax: +61 3 8344 6215
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Latitude: -34.621
Longitude: 146.424
Elevation: 144 m
MDB Regional Map (click for full resolution):
Area Map (click for full resolution):
Google Earth .kmz file of MDB Murrumbidgee Reference Site stations
Station Description:
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General Description:
The Murrumbidgee Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (MSMMN) consists of eighteen stations distributed across the Murrumbidgee River Basin, NSW, Australia
Meteorological data sets suitable for land surface model inputs have been developed from a combination of the MSMMN and local operational meteorological stations operated by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Station Operator:
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Melbourne
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Landcover at all sites consists of grasses and/or herbaceous cover.
MDB Murrumbidgee Yanco Research Station North View (click for full resolution):
MDB Murrumbidgee Yanco Research Station South View (click for full resolution):
MDB Murrumbidgee Yanco Research Station West View (click for full resolution):
MDB Murrumbidgee Yanco Research Station East View (click for full resolution):
Dominant land cover at the measurement location: No information.
Canopy height: No information.
Density of Canopy: No information.
Land cover within 50 m of site: No information.
Land cover within 500 m of site: No information.
Land cover within 12 km of site: No information.
Seasonal land cover changes: No information.
Major changes in land cover at site from October 2002 to December 2004: No information.
Slope at the site: ~0%.
Aspect at the site: Not provided.
Other notes: None
Soil Type and Characterization:
Surface soil type: No information.
Soil type in deeper layers: No information.
Surface soil porosity: No information.
Soil porosity in deeper layers: No information.
Soil infiltration rate: No information.
Bulk Dry Density: No information.
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: No information.
The Soil Reference Group(s) (from World Reference Base for Soil Resources): No information.
Climate:
Annual Precipitation: 442 mm
Annual areal potential evapotranspiration: 1209 mm
Average daily variation of climate variables for West Wyalong for January and July (click for full resolution):
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SURFACE METEOROLOGY AND RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
- Station pressure - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Air Temperature - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Dew point - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Relative humidity - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Specific humidity - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Wind speed - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Wind direction - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- U wind component - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- V wind component - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Precipitation - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Snow depth - Not measured.
- Incoming shortwave radiation - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Outgoing shortwave radiation - Not measured.
- Incoming longwave radiation - measured; height and instrumentation not provided.
- Outgoing longwave radiation - Not measured.
- Net radiation Not measured.
- Skin temperature - Not measured.
- Incoming Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) - Not measured.
- Outgoing Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) - Not measured.
- Soil temperature - 4, 15, and 42 cm depths Unidata 6507A Thermistors
- Soil moisture - 4, 15, and 42 cm depths Campbell Scientific CS615 water content reflectometer
MDB Murrumbidgee Yanco Research Station (click for full resolution):
METEOROLOGICAL TOWER INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
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No data of this type available at this station.
FLUX INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
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No data of this type available at this station.
SOIL INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
RADIOSONDE INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
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No data of this type available at this station.
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Web:
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None provided.
Literature:
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None provided.
- MDB (13 March 2007; Washington, DC, USA)