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New Water Atlas of the Global Water Cycle

August 3rd
2009

 

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The world’s first comprehensive visual atlas of global rainfall projections over the next 100 years was launched at The Australian National University last week.

Researchers have created the Atlas of the Global Water Cycle based on all of the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its most recent report. The atlas is the work of PhD researcher Wee Ho Lim and Dr Michael Roderick from ANU.

Dr Roderick said that the Atlas of the Global Water Cycle would make all the current best information on modelling for future rainfall more easily available so that individuals and communities could make more informed decisions about how to plan for the century to come.

The Atlas of the Global Water Cycle is published by ANU E Press and will be available for sale in hard copy and for free download: http://epress.anu.edu.au/global_water_cycle_citation.html

The atlas was launched by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb and the Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen.

 

WHAT: Launch of An Atlas of the Global Water Cycle by Wee Ho Lim and Michael Roderick                  

WHEN: 11am, Tuesday 4 August 2009                    

WHERE: APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, Cnr Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU, Canberra                    

Media contact: Simon Couper, ANU Media Office 02 6125 4171, 0416 249 241