Journal article
Monthly disaggregation of annual irrigation water demand in the southern Murray Darling Basin
AAM Ahmed, QJ Wang, AW Western, TDJ Graham, W Wu
Agricultural Water Management | ELSEVIER | Published : 2024
Abstract
Water demand forecasting plays a crucial role in the efficient planning and management of water distribution systems, particularly in regions facing complex climatic and irrigation dynamics. Fluctuations in water demand occur across both seasonal and sub-seasonal timeframes, driven by diverse factors including weather variations and irrigation management choices. Traditionally, irrigation water demands have been forecasted separately for these two temporal scales, using only subsets of factors most relevant to each specific temporal scale. Sub-seasonal water demands are, however, influenced by annual decisions. This is particularly true in large, complex water systems with extensive water tr..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is part of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP170100922) titled "water availability and demand: better forecasts, better management". The Linkage Project includes the following project partners: the University of Melbourne (UoM) , the Commonwealth Sci-entific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) , the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) , the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) , the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) , the New South Wales Department of Planning Industry and Environment (NSW DPIE) , Goulburn Murray Water (GMW) , and Lower Murray Water (LMW) . The authors acknowledge and thank the partners for their support of this project. Authors also acknowledge the ABARES to make the Murray-Darling Basin water market datasets available through Walsh et al. (2021) . Wenyan Wu acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council via the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE210100117) .