We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Written by Chiara Holgate, Hydrologist & PhD Candidate, Australian National University
The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood.
Our new study helps to change this. We threw a weather model into reverse and ran it back for 35 years to study the natural processes leading to low rainfall during drought.
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