The Northern Australia Climate Program: Overview and Selected Highlights
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Article Title | The Northern Australia Climate Program: Overview and Selected Highlights |
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ERA Journal ID | 1961 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Lavender, Sally L., Cowan, Tim, Hawcroft, Matthew, Wheeler, Matthew C., Jarvis, Chelsea, Cobon, David, Nguyen, Hanh, Hudson, Debra, Sharmila, S., Marshall, Andrew G., de Burgh-Day, Catherine, Milton, Sean, Stirling, Alison, Alves, Oscar and Hendon, Harry H. |
Journal Title | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
Journal Citation | 103 (11), pp. E2492-E2505 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0003-0007 |
1520-0477 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0309.1 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/11/BAMS-D-21-0309.1.xml |
Abstract | Since 2017, the Northern Australia Climate Program (NACP) has assisted the pastoral grazing industry to better manage drought risk and climate variability. The NACP funding is sourced from the beef cattle industry, government, and academia, representing the program’s broad range of aims and target beneficiaries. The program funds scientists in the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to extension advisers called “Climate Mates” across a region that supports 15 million head of cattle. Many Climate Mates are employed in the cattle sector and have existing relationships in their communities and capacity to meaningfully engage with the program’s intended beneficiaries— red meat producers. The NACP is a prime example of a successful end-to-end program, integrating climate model improvements (research) with tailored forecast products (development), through to direct stakeholder engagement (extension), on-ground application of technologies (adoption), and improvement in industry and community resilience (impact). The climate information needs of stakeholders also feed back to the research and development components, ensuring the scientific research directly addresses end-user requirements. For any scientific research program, ensuring that research output has measurable real-world impact represents a key challenge. This is more difficult in cases where the scientific research is several steps away from the customer’s needs. This paper gives an overview of the NACP and research highlights, discussing how the end-to-end framework could be adapted and applied in other regions and industries. It seeks to provide a roadmap for other groups to follow to produce more targeted research with identifiable real-world benefits. |
Keywords | Drought; Numerical weather prediction/forecasting; Subseasonal variability; Agriculture; Communications/decision making; Experimental design |
Article Publishing Charge (APC) Funding | Project Funding |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 370202. Climatology |
370108. Meteorology | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Centre for Applied Climate Sciences (Research) |
Met Office, United Kingdom | |
Australian Bureau of Meteorology | |
Monash University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/v4y0w/the-northern-australia-climate-program-overview-and-selected-highlights
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