Avril Horne

Disaggregated monthly hydrological models can outperform daily models in providing daily flow statistics and extrapolate well to a drying climate

Andrew John, Keirnan Fowler, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Daily timescale hydrological information is important for many purposes such as flood estimation, predicting the consequences of c..

Considering scale within optimization procedures for water management decisions: Balancing environmental flows and human needs

Diana Derepasko, Joseph HA Guillaume, Avril C Horne, Martin Volk

Journal article  |  2021  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

A key issue in optimization model development is the selection of spatial and temporal scale representing the system. This study p..

Assessing the Impact of Irrigation Efficiency Projects on Return Flows in the South-Eastern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Glen R Walker, Avril C Home, Quan J Wang, Rob Rendell

Journal article  |  2021  |  WATER

Improving irrigation efficiency (IE) is an approach used globally to help meet competing demands for water and facilitate realloca..

Climate change and freshwater ecology: Hydrological and ecological methods of comparable complexity are needed to predict risk

Andrew John, Avril Horne, Rory Nathan, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, N LeRoy Poff

Journal article  |  2020  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE

Many freshwater ecosystems are in decline because of anthropogenic disturbance including climate change, yet our understanding of ..

Sustainable water resources development in northern Australia: the need for coordination, integration and representation

Barry Hart, Erin O'Donnell, Avril Horne

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Water Resources Development

The Australian government’s push to develop northern Australia identified water security as crucial in underpinning any new agricu..

Potential cumulative impacts on river flow volume from increased groundwater extraction under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Glen R Walker, Quan J Wang, Avril Horne, Rick Evans, Stuart Richardson

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES

A risk assessment of the reduction of streamflow in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) from potential increased groundwater extraction..

'Sub-Prime' Water, Low-Security Entitlements and Policy Challenges in Over-Allocated River Basins: the Case of the Murray-Darling Basin

Harriet Elizabeth Moore, Ian D Rutherfurd, Murray C Peel, Avril Horne

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Management

Environmental policy is often implemented using market instruments. In some cases, including carbon taxing, the links between fina..

Estimating groundwater-river connectivity factor for quantifying changes in irrigation return flows in the Murray-Darling Basin

Glen Walker, Quan J Wang, Avril C Horne, Rick Evans, Stuart Richardson

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES

Concerns have been raised that the use of infrastructure and water efficiency projects to recover water entitlements for the envir..

How to incorporate climate change into modelling environmental water outcomes: a review

Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Water and Climate Change

Environmental water represents a key resource in managing freshwater ecosystems against pervasive threats. The impacts of climate ..

Modeling Flow-Ecology Responses in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Sustainable Riverine Management

Avril C Horne, Rory Nathan, N LeRoy Poff, Nick R Bond, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, Andrew John

Journal article  |  2019  |  BIOSCIENCE

Climate change will increase water stress in many regions placing greater pressures on rivers to meet human and ecological water n..