Enso's Influence On The Brisbane River Flows In Australia

Location: Tropical cyclones occur in the northern part of Australia, around the periphery, or in the tropics. The areas most affected by tropical cyclones are Queensland and Western Australia, with New South Wales being one of the states rarely affected. The season for tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere is from November to April.

At the point when mapping out your Australian get-away, a visit to Queensland's capital may not be your first decision. The nation's third biggest city is frequently ignored for Australia's all the more surely understood visitor problem areas, as Sydney and Melbourne. However, Brisbane's subtropical atmosphere, flourishing expressions and unrecorded music scene and flock of outside to-dos make it a commendable destination for your next excursion Down Under.

The floods were caused by heavy rain from a tropical cyclone named cyclone Tasha that joined with a La Niña event* caused an overflow of water in rivers and lakes. The La Niña in 2010 was the strongest La Niña since 1973.This caused a lot of rainfall across Queensland. That December was the wettest on record and 107 places had their highest rainfalls ever. 2010 was also recorded as the states most wet spring since the 1900’s and Australia's third wettest year. Floods started across the state in December. On the 28th December a monsoonal trough crossed the coast from the Coral Sea, bringing heavy rain from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Gold Coast, overfilling a dam in Towoomba, causing it to malfunction and release the water.

Water is the most relied upon resource on earth and if it disappeared life could not and would not exist on this planet. So if one of our main sources of water in South Australia, The Murray Darling-Basin, becomes unusable then we would need to find the problem and do everything possible to stop it or counteract it. This report investigates on salinity in the Murray Darling-Basin, using the issue question “Is there enough being done to counteract the effects of salinity in the Murray?” as the focus. Salinity is a key significant environmental challenge which the Murray faces and if left unmanaged it could cause serious implications for water quality, plant growth, biodiversity, land productivity, infrastructure and could lead to a loss of

Recently, a contractor working for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unintentionally released 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animas River in the Mountain West state of Colorado. Today, people in the US are debating the efficacy of the EPA (the right-wing is using the spill as anti-government propaganda) and the toxic aftermath the spill will undoubtedly have on local economies, communities and ecosystems. So far, the spill has "contaminated the Animas River, San Juan River, and the Colorado River in Utah."

The Great Barrier Reef generally has two main weather time frames. Winter period in which temperature is generally warm with low rainfall and the summer period with pleasant weather and higher levels of rainfall.

This report examines the North Eastern Management Victorian Catchment. In particular the area in which is being maintained by the North East Victorian Management Authority. The bio geographical region will be examined and a complex investigation into some of the threats posed by Land use and increased demand for resources have had on such a Catchment area.

The 2014 Colorado River pulse flow was part of a bi-national agreement, called Minute 319, between the United States and Mexico. The overall goal of Minute 319 was to manage the Colorado River in light of the drastic decrease in the river’s streamflow and the predicted increase in weather variability due to climate change. The pulse flow established through this agreement was an attempt to restore the riparian ecosystem by adding around 100,000 acre-feet of water into the Colorado River. This was an experimental pulse flow, aiming to determine the ideal frequency and quantity of pulse flows in order to maximize the positive impacts. Our analysis reveals the historical context of the Colorado River streamflow rates upstream from the pulse flow,

The pattern of precipitation in Brisbane is not regular. The Bureau of Meteorology of Australia (2015) has mentioned that the number of rainfall days has decreased but the intensity of rainfall has increased. From the data below, we can demonstrate that the data is not following any particular trend. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014, rainfall received is just half of the amount of rainfall in 2010. Also, the intensity of rainfall received was highest in the days of months of December and January as compared to rainfall days of other months.

The main characters in the book Stream to the River, River to the sea are Sacagawea she is kidnapped and married her husband Charbonneau. In which they have a child named Meeko. Then Sacagawea meets Lewis and Clark and goes with them on their expedition with her husband and new born child. Soon Sacagawea falls in love with Clark. The book takes in and near the rocky mountains. The conflict in the story is the struggles of going to the ocean and having being kidnapped multiple times. The novel depicts Sacagawea as a strong and brave girl. Sacagawea’s husband is depicted as a cruel and rude man unlike Clark which is a loving and kind hearted man.

Dryland salinity has become a large problem in Australia. As salt start to accumulate near the soil surface, plants find it harder to absorb water and then start to slowly die, as they become dehydrated. 30% loss of field crops can occur, even before the effect of soil salinity is visible.

A flood can be defined in many depths but is simply water where it isn’t wanted. In late 2010 Queensland was affected by major flash flooding this continued on into the beginning of 2011 and ¾ of Queensland was declared a disaster zone.

By the coast there is usually an equable climate this causes coastal places to be cooler in the summer than inland places and warmer in the winter due to water’s different heat capacity compared to inland. This gives benefits in tourism and has proved particularly profitable in Florida. 82.5 million people visited Florida in 2008 and tourism is worth $40 billion a year to the state of Florida. Equable climates have contributed much to the attraction of the coast especially when linked with the development of tourism. The equable climate has especially spurned the development of the coast in Australia. Much of the land in Australia is desert and quite barren because of this the majority of cities are on the coast as it’s more agreeable. The climate the ocean creates is desirable and so leads to development

The article entitled “Global Carbon Cycles Regulated by Rivers” written by Jenna Iacurci is about the carbon cycle and how rivers are making a bigger impact than anyone had ever imagined. The article says that scientist have known for a long time that rivers affect the carbon cycle but have not known how much or by what degree until now. The article said that rivers act as circulatory systems. What they do is that they wash out carbon into the ocean. Most of that carbon remains in the ocean for millions of years keeping it out of the atmosphere. The type of carbon that gets washed out is biogenic (plant and soil erosion) and petrogenic (rock erosion). The amount of carbon that gets taken out of the atmosphere and into the ocean is .02 percent.

The Leeuwin current, is the flow of water that runs through the southern and western side of Australia. The current is pushed along with a north-southernly pressure degree. It is at its peak of strength from May to June, which is during autumn and the start of winter. The current is very powerful as it also carries about a quarter of the water from the eastern Australian current, and also has a sagacious effect on the Western, Southern side of Australia and can even reach as afar as