Simplified Monthly Hydrology and Irrigation Water Use Model to Explore Sustainable Water Management Options in the Murray-Darling Basin

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4083-4097

  Kirby, J M ^a   Mainuddin, Md ^a   Ahmad, M D ^a   Gao, L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Irrigation; Simple monthly model; Water management

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; IRRIGATION AREA; IRRIGATION WATER USE; MODEL-BASED OPC; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT; TRIAL AND ERROR;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATION;

CATCHMENT; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; IRRIGATION; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84883055815     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0397-x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Allen RG, Pereira LS, Raes D, Smith M (1998) Crop Evapotranspiration: Guidelines for Computing Crop Water Requirements. FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
2. Bryan BA, Marvanek S (2004) Quantifying and valuing land-use change for ICM evaluation in the Murray-Darling Basin 1996/97 - 2000/01. CSIRO Land and Water Stage 2 Report for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission.
3. Budyko MI (1974) Climate and life. Academic, San Diego, 508pp.
4. Connell D (2011) Water reform and the federal system in the Murray-Darling Basin. Water Resour Manag 25: 3993-4003.
5. Connor J, Schwabe K, King D, Kaczan D, Kirby M (2009) Impacts of climate change on lower Murray irrigation. Aust J Agric Resour Econ 53: 437-456.
6. Crabb P (1997) Murray-Darling Basin resources. Murray Darling Basin Commission, Canberra.
7. CSIRO (2008) The Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. Overview and reports available at http://www. csiro. au/science/MDBSY. html (accessed November 2011).
8. Gao L, Hailu A (2010) Comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer for constrained mixed-variable optimization problems. Int J Comput Intell Syst 3: 832-842.
9. Gippel CJ (2006) Scoping Study of Operational Changes to Reduce River and Storage Losses along the River Murray System. Canberra: The Living Murray, Murray-Darling Basin Commission. 67pp. http://thelivingmurray. mdbc. gov. au/__data/page/1327/Losses_in_the_River_Murray_System_Final_Report2. pdf (Accessed 23 May, 2009).
10. Godden L, Kung A (2011) Water law and planning frameworks under climate change variability: systemic and adaptive management of flood risk. Water Resour Manag 25: 4051-4068.
11. Harris E (2011) The impact of institutional path dependence on water market efficiency in Victoria, Australia. Water Resour Manag 25: 4069-4080.
12. Johnston R, Kummu M (2012) Water resources models in the Mekong Basin: a review. Water Resour Manag 26: 429-455. doi: 10. 1007/s11269-011-9925-8.
13. Kirby M, Evans R, Walker G, Cresswell R, Coram J, Khan S, Paydar Z, Mainuddin M, and McKenzie N (2006a) The Shared Water Resources of the Murray-Darling Basin: Part I in a two part series on the shared water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin prepared for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, MDBC Publication 21/06.
14. Kirby M, Mainuddin M, Ahmad MD, Marchand P, and Zhang L (2006b) Water use account spreadsheets with examples of some major river basins. Paper presented at the 9th International River Symposium, September 3-6, 2006 in Brisbane, Australia. Available at http://archive. riversymposium. com/2006/index. php?element=06KIRBYMac (accessed October, 2012).
15. Kirby M (2011) Irrigation in science and solutions for Australia. In: Prosser I (ed) Water. CSIRO Publishing, Australia, pp 105-118.
16. McMahon TA, Finlayson BL, Srikanthan R, Haines AT (1992) Global Runoff: Continental comparisons of annual flows and peak discharges. Catena Verlag, Cremlingen-Destedt, 166 pp.
17. MDBA (2010) Guide to the proposed Basin Plan: Volume 1, Overview. Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.
18. MDBA (2011a) Proposed Basin Plan. MDBA publication no: 192/11. Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra. http://download. mdba. gov. au/proposed/proposed_basin_plan. pdf. See also the Plain English summary of the proposed Basin Plan - including explanatory notes, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.
19. MDBA (2011b) Water Audit Monitoring Reports. Available at http://www2. mdbc. gov. au/nrm/nrm_archives/cap_archives. html#WAM_reports (pre 2007-8) and http://www. mdba. gov. au/services/publications (2007-8 and 2008-9).
20. MDBMC (2002) The Living Murray. A discussion paper on restoring the health of the River Murray. Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council. Available at http://thelivingmurray2. mdbc. gov. au/__data/page/1482/old_living_murray_booklet. pdf (accessed October 2012).
21. Mosley LM, Zammit B, Leyden E, Heneker TM, Hipsey MR, Skinner D, Aldridge KT (2012) The impact of extreme low flows on the water quality of the lower Murray River and lakes (South Australia). Water Resour Manag 26: 3923-3946.
22. Raupach MR, Kirby JM, Barrett DJ, Briggs PR (2001) Balances of Water, Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Australian Landscapes. 1. Project Description and Results. CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 40/01. Canberra: CSIRO.
23. Sivapalan M, Bloschl G, Zhang L, Vertessy R (2003) Downward approach to hydrological prediction. Hydrol Process 17: 2101-2111.
24. Trotter J (2007) Alternatives to log-scale data display. Current Protocols in Cytometry 10. 16. 1 - 10. 16. 11 October 2007. doi: 10. 1002/0471142956. cy1016s42.
25. Vaze J, Chiew F, Perraud J-M, Viney N, Post D, Teng J, Wang B, Lerat J, Goswami M (2011) Rainfall-runoff modelling across southeast Australia: datasets, models and results. Australian Journal of Water Resources 14: 16 pp.
26. Wang QJ, Pagano TC, Zhou SL, Hapuarachchi HAP, Zhang L, Robertson DE (2011) Monthly versus daily water balance models in simulating monthly runoff. J Hydrol 404: 166-175. doi: 10. 1016/j. jhydrol. 2011. 04. 027.
27. Zhang L, Potter N, Hickel K, Zhang Y, Shao Q (2008) Water balance modeling over variable time scales based on the Budyko framework - Model development and testing. J Hydrol 360: 117-131.