Publication errata: Hydrological Recipes ? Estimation Techniques in Australian Hydrology
July 02, 2004
It is now eight years since Hydrological Recipes: Estimation Techniques in Australian Hydrology was published by the CRC for Catchment Hydrology and over 690 copies have been sold. During that time users were requested to contact us with feedback and ideas for new topics. While no new topics have been suggested, several errors have been identified and the accompanying Errata describe these in detail. Please let us know of any others you are aware of.
At this stage there is no plan to produce a new edition of Hydrological Recipes, however over the last eight years there have been important developments in several of the areas covered. For example, Topic 4.3 on evapotranspiration estimation for Victoria has been extended to the whole of Australia and published as maps by the Bureau of Meteorology (see http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/wr/et_map_purchase.shtml) and work has continued on Australian versus world hydrology. In other areas such as assessing river condition, there have been major changes in thinking, particularly related to indicators of
ecological health
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The CRC for Catchment Hydrology has also been developing the Catchment Modelling Toolkit software that includes (or will include) several products that are related to topics in Hydrological Recipes. Current software tools of interest include:
1. Stochastic Climate Library (SCL) - a software library of stochastic models for generating climate data and of relevance to several topics in Section 5 of Hydrological Recipes, including the generation of precipitation data (see http://www.toolkit.net.au/scl for further information).
2. The River Analysis Package (RAP) software - assists river and water resource managers to undertake condition assessments, environmental flow planning and river restoration design (see http://www.toolkit.net.au/rap for further information)
3. TREND software - designed to facilitate statistical testing for trend, change and randomness in hydrological and other time series data. TREND has 13 statistical tests, based on the WMO/UNESCO Expert Workshop on Trend/Change Detection and Hydrological Recipes (available from the Catchment Modelling Toolkit web site at http://www.toolkit.net.au/trend from August 2004).
4. EVAP software - a software tool for the computation of several potential evapotranspiration methods from Section 4. This software will be made available during 2005.
In addition, the Catchment Modelling Toolkit at http://www.toolkit.net.au also contains:
5. The Rainfall Runoff Library (RRL) software - designed to simulate catchment runoff by using daily rainfall and evapotranspiration data. The models may be applied to catchments from 10 to 10,000 sq. km on a daily time step (see http://www.toolkit.net.au/rrl)
6. The CHUTE software - a hydraulic design program for the design of rock chute structures used for stabilising river and stream beds (see http://www.toolkit.net.au/chute)
7. The MUSIC software - designed to simulate urban stormwater systems operating at a range of temporal and spatial scales; catchments from 0.01 to 100 sq.km and modelling time steps ranging from 6 minutes to 24 hours to match the catchment scale (see www.toolkit.net.au/music)
A number of other software releases through the Catchment Modelling Toolkit are planned over the next twelve months. By becoming a Toolkit member at http://www.toolkit.net.au/register we will provide regular updates as they are released.
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