Site Name

Landcover

Rainfall: annual mm

Temp range:

Location

Group

Status

Contact

Sugar cane

2000

20 to 40

Coastal plain Burdekin River, Qld
-19° 34'S
147° 24'E

CSIRO Land and Water (Townsville)

Running since March 2001

Tasmania
40° 41' 00" S
144° 41' 22" E

joint program
Bureau of Meteorology
and CSIRO

Tropical rainforest

2000

20 to 40

Cape Tribulation rainforest, 100 km N of Cairns, Qld
16° 06' 20" S
145° 22' 40" E

James Cook University
(Cairns)

Running since January 2001

Tropical savanna (wet)

1700

20 to 33

E of Darwin, NT
12° 49.428'S
131° 15.231'E

Monash University
(Melbourne)

Northern Territory University

Running since August 2001

data available from 1997

Narrinda South, Victoria
38° 31.5' S
142° 48.6' E

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Wet temperate sclerophyll eucalypt

1000

-10 to 30

Near Tumbarumba, NSW
35° 39' 20.6" S
148° 09' 07.5" E

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (Canberra)

Running since May 2000

Tropical savanna (wet/dry)

700

15 to 40

40 km NE of Charters Towers, Qld
19° 53' 00" S
146° 33' 14" E

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (Canberra, Townsville)

Running since July 2001 to November 2004

Wet temperate eucalypt forest

1700

3 to 17

Approx. 100 km NE of Melbourne, Vic.
37° 34' S
145° 38'E

Monash University, Climatology Group

To be advised