Publications

Carter, J. O., Bruget, D., & Stone, G. (2025). Continental-scale modelling of pasture growth with the AussieGRASS model: Learnings from 30 years of operation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 560-565).

Cowley, R. A., Whish, G., Hearnden, M., Mateme, C., Pettit, C., McCosker, K. D., Carter, J., Wirl, B., Holloway, C. H., Pahl, L. I., & Mayer, D. G. (2025). Factors influencing pasture utilisation in northern Australian rangelands. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 1704-1708).

Henry, B., Allen, D., Badgery, W., Bray, S. G., Carter, J., Dalal, R., Hall, W. B., Harrison, M. T., McDonald, S. E., & McMillan, H. (2025). A review of the evidence linking management and soil carbon sequestration in rangelands. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 1551-1555).

Hughes, N., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Schepen, A., Tan, P., Brent, G., Turner, A., Bellew, S., Soh, W. Y., Sharman, C., Taylor, P., Carter, J., Bruget, D., Hochman, Z., Searle, R., Song, Y., Mitchell, P., Beletse, Y., Holzworth, D., Guillory, L., Brodie, C., McComb, J., & Singh, R. (2025). Monitoring agricultural and economic drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators (AADI). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 3461-3482.

Irvine, S. A., Carter, J. O., & Stone, G. S. (2025). Construction of a 200-year annual domestic livestock distribution geographical dataset for Australia for the pre-digital era 1788 to 1980. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 398-403).

Schepen, A., Bolt, A., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Hochman, Z., Hughes, N., Sharman, C., Tan, P., & Taylor, P. (2025). Forecasting agricultural drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(10), 4053-4070.

Specht, A., Bastin, G., Carter, J., Cowley, R., Diete, R., Facelli, J., Maurer, G., O'Reagain, P. J., & Thornton, C.(2025). The value proposition for systematic long-term vegetation studies. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 378-382)

Irvine, S., Carter, J., & Stone, G. (2024). Estimating Historical Domestic Grazing Density for Australia 1788-1980. Grazing Land Systems, Earth Observations and Social Sciences, Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Brisbane.

Henry B., Allen D., Badgery W., Bray S., Carter J., Dalal R. C., Hall W., Harrison M. T., McDonald S. E., & McMillan H. (2024). Soil carbon sequestration in rangelands: A critical review of the impacts of major management strategies. The Rangeland Journal 46, RJ24005.

Fordyce G., Shephard R., Moravek T., & McGowan M. R. (2023). Australian cattle herd: A new perspective on structure, performance and production. Animal Production Science 63, 410-421.

Woodrow, L., Carter, J., Fraser, G., & Barnetson, J. (2023). Using continuous output neural nets to estimate pasture biomass from digital photographs in grazing lands. AgriEngineering, 5, 1051-1067.

Zhang, H., Jeffrey, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Improved quality gridded surface wind speed datasets for Australia. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134, Article 85.

Zund, P., Walton, J., Antoni, M. D., Harms, B., & Thomas, E. (2022). Soil bicarbonate-extractable P (Colwell-P) map of Queensland main grazing lands (GBP.0043). Queensland Department of Environment and Science; Meat and Livestock Australia Limited, North Sydney NSW.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth, P. (2021). Climate-resilient grazing in the pastures of Queensland: An integrated remotely piloted aircraft system and satellite-based deep-learning method for estimating pasture yield. AgriEngineering. 3(3):681-702.

Irvine, S. (2021). Mapping drought declaration areas from 1936 to 1964 for Queensland, Australia. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 109-119.

McKeon, G., Stone, G., Ahrens, D., Carter, J., Cobon, D., Irvine, S., & Syktus, J. (2021). Queensland’s multi-year Wet and Dry periods: implications for grazing enterprises and pasture resources. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 121-142

Owens, J., McKeon, G., O’Reagain, P., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Nelson, B., & Scanlan, J. (2021). Disentangling the effects of management and climate on perennial grass pastures and the degradation that follows multi-year droughts. In Vervoort, R.W., Voinov, A.A., Evans, J.P., & Marshall, L. (Eds), MODSIM2021, 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 85-91). Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Paxton, G. (2021). Building cultural capital in drought adaptation: lessons from discourse analysis. The Rangeland Journal 43, 101-108.

Pringle, M., Bray, S., & Carter, J. (2021). Modelling the disappearance of coarse woody debris, following a land clearing event. Carbon Balance Manage, 16, Article 36.

Pringle, M., O'Reagain, P., Stone, G., Carter, J., Orton, T., & Bushell, J. (2021). Using remote sensing to forecast forage quality for cattle in the dry savannas of northeast Australia. Ecological Indicators, 133, Article 108426.

Stone G., Zhang B., Carter J., Fraser G., Whish G., Paton C., & McKeon G. (2021) An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 1: Background and development. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 143-157.

Zhang B., Fraser G., Carter J., Stone G., Irvine S., Whish G., Willcocks J., & McKeon G. (2021). An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 2: Modelling and outputs. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 159-172.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth P. (2020) Estimating plant pasture biomass and quality from UAV imaging across Queensland’s rangelands. AgriEngineering. 2020; 2(4):523-543.

Bremhorst, M. (2020). Three essays on digital representation and decision making: Theory-driven study, data-driven study, and integration. (Doctoral dissertation, UQ Business School).

Cobon, D., Stone, G., Carter, J., McKeon, G., Zhang, B., & Heidemann, H. (2020). Native pastures and beef cattle show a spatially variable response to a changing climate in Queensland, Australia, European Journal of Agronomy,  114, Article 126002.

Cobon, D., Kouadio, L., Mushtaq, S., Jarvis, S., Carter, J., Stone, G., & Davis, P. (2019). Evaluating the shifts in rainfall and pasture-growth variabilities across the pastoral zone of Australia during 1910–2010. Crop and Pasture Science, 70(7), 634-647.

Irvine, S., & Holloway, C. (2019). Spatial grazing land management land types of Queensland: Review and amendments (Version 5.4). Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland.

Owens, J., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Cleverly, J., Hutley, L., & Barnetson, J. (2019). Improving evapotranspiration estimation in pasture and native vegetation models using flux tower data, remote sensing and global optimisation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.

Stone, G., Dalla Pozza, R., Carter J., & McKeon, G. (2019). Long Paddock: Climate risk and grazing information for Australian rangelands and grazing communities. The Rangeland Journal, 41, 225–232

Zhang B., & Carter J. (2018)  FORAGE – An online system for generating and delivering property-scale decision support information for grazing land and environmental management. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 150, 302-311

Fraser, G., Rohde, K., & Silburn, M. (2017). Fertiliser management effects on dissolved inorganic nitrogen in runoff from Australian sugarcane farms. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(8), Article 409.

Fraser G. W., & Stone G. S. (2016) The effect of soil and pasture attributes on rangeland infiltration rates in northern Australia. The Rangeland Journal 38, 245-259.

Schmidt, M., Carter, J., Stone, G., & O’Reagain, P. (2016). Integration of Optical and X-Band Radar Data for Pasture Biomass Estimation in an Open Savannah Woodland, Remote Sensing. 2016; 8(12):989.

Day, K.A., Ahrens, D.G. and Peacock A. (Issued monthly 2001–2015). Queensland summer rainfall (November to March) in relation to sea-surface temperature in the previous autumn and winter. Seasonal Pacific Ocean Temperature Analysis – 1 (SPOTA–1), www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au. To obtain the password and gain access to the SPOTA-1 reports, visit the SPOTA-1 web site for more information.

Mayer, D. (2013). Improved empirical models of cattle growth, reproduction and mortality from native pastures in northern Australia. (Final Report No. NBP.0641). Meat and Livestock Australia.

Klingaman, N.P. (2012). A literature survey of key rainfall drivers in Queensland, Australia: Rainfall variability and change. QCCCE Research Report: Rainfall in Queensland (Part 1). Department of Environmental and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Klingaman, N.P. (2012). Empirical orthogonal teleconnection analysis of interannual-variability in Queensland rainfall. QCCCE Research Report: Rainfall in Queensland (Part 3). Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia.

Klingaman, N.P. (2012). Is the inter-annual variability in Queensland rainfall due to variability in rainfall frequency, intensity, or both? QCCCE Research Report: Rainfall in Queensland (Part 2). Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia.

Klingaman, N.P. (2012). Queensland rainfall — Past, present and future. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Klingaman, N.P. (2012). The ability of HiGEM to simulate Queensland's rainfall variability and its drivers. QCCCE Research Report: Rainfall in Queensland (Part 4). Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia.
The Part 4/1 report is available (PDF, 1.4M, last updated 03:08PM, 28 June 2012)* on the Long Paddock web site.
The Part 4/2 report is available (PDF, 2.7M, last updated 03:08PM, 28 June 2012)* on the Long Paddock web site.
The Part 4/3 report is available (PDF, 639K, last updated 03:08PM, 28 June 2012)* on the Long Paddock web site.
The Part 4/4 report is available (PDF, 479K, last updated 03:08PM, 28 June 2012)* on the Long Paddock web site.

Acworth, C., & Lawson, S. (2011). The Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing project – Ten years of managing operations in a highly variable coastal system. In Proceedings of the 20th NSW Coastal Conference. Tweed Heads, Australia.

Brundell, J., Cobon, D., Stone, G., & Cliffe, N. (2011). Climate Change Risk Matrix: a process for assessing impacts, adaptation, risk and vulnerability [Factsheet]. Queensland Climate Centre of Excellence, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Chu, J., Syktus, J., Thatcher, M., McAlpine, C., Jeffrey, S., Katzfey, J., Zhang, H., McGregor, J., & Adams-Hosking, C. (2011). Validation of land surface products for modelling the climate impacts of large-scale revegetation in Queensland.  In Proceedings of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference. Perth, Australia.

Collier, M.A., Jeffrey, S.J., Rotstayn, L.D., Wong, K., Dravitzki, S.M., Moeseneder, C., Hamalainen, C., Syktus, J.I., Suppiah, R., Antony, J., El Zein, A., & Atif, M. (2011). The CSIRO-Mk3.6.0 Atmosphere-Ocean GCM: participation in CMIP5 and data publication. In Proceedings of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 2011 International Congress: Sustaining Our Future. Perth, Australia.

Folland, C., Scaife, A., Fereday, D., Knight, J., Kucharski, F., Kinter, J., Jin, E., Bronniman, S., Fischer, A., Grainger, S., Kang, I., Kusunoki, S., Nakaegawa, T., Lau, N., Nath, M., Pegion, P., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P., Syktus, J., Yoon, J., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2011). C20C – Climate of the 20th century: Selected twentieth century climate events. In Proceedings of the WCRP Open Science Conference: Climate Research in Service to Society. Denver, CO, United States.

Folland, C., Scaife, A., Fereday, D., Knight, J., Kucharski, F., Kinter, J., Jin, E., Bronniman, S., Fischer, A., Grainger, S., Kang, I., Kusunoki, S., Nakaegawa, T., Lau, N., Nath, M., Pegion, P., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P., Syktus, J., Yoon, J., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2011). C20C - Climate of the 20th Century: Selected twentieth century climate events. In Proceedings of the World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference: Climate Research in Service to Society. Denver, CO, United States.  

Fraser, G. W., Carter, J., McKeon, G., & Day, K. (2011). A new empirical model of sub-daily rainfall intensity and its application in a rangeland biophysical model. The Rangeland Journal, 33, 37-48   

Grainger, S., Frederiksen, C., Zheng, X., Fereday, D., Folland, C., Jin, E., Kinter, J., Knight, J., Schubert, S., & Syktus, J. (2011). Modes of variability of Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation estimated by AGCMs. Climate Dynamics, 36(3-4), 473-490.

Helyer, Z., Acworth, C., & Lawson, S. (2011). Acoustic Doppler current profiling from Kirra to Cook Island – field exercises undertaken by the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project. In Proceedings of the 20th NSW Coastal Conference. Tweed Heads, Australia.

Klingaman, N.P.,  Woolnough, S. J., & Syktus, J. (2011). On the drivers of inter-annual and decadal rainfall variability in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Climatology.

Klingaman, N., Woolnough, J., & Syktus, J. (2011). On the drivers of inter-annual and decadal rainfall variability in Queensland, Australia. In Proceedings of the WCRP Open Science Conference: Climate Research in Service to Society. Denver, CO, United States.

Liu, D.L., Timbal, B., Mo, J., & Fairweather, H. (2011). A GIS-based climate change adaptation strategy tool. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 3(2).

Office of Climate Change. (2011). Climate change risk management matrix. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia.   

Office of Climate Change. (2011). Tropical Cyclone Yasi Factsheet. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Patterson, D., Boswood, P., & Elias, G. (2011). Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Long Term Average sand transport rate. In Proceedings of the 20th NSW Coastal Conference. Tweed Heads, Australia.

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence. (2011). Queensland Coastal Processes and Climate Change [Brochure]. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence: Coastal Unit. (2011). Queensland Coastal Processes and Climate Change. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Ricketts, J.H., & Carter, J.O. (2011). Estimating trends in monthly maximum and minimum temperatures in GCM’s for which these data are not archived. In Proceedings of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 2011 International Congress: Sustaining Our Future. Perth, Australia. 

Schwartz, R., Nielsen, K., & Mohoupt, J. (2011). TC Yasi: Coastal Inundation Levels. In Proceedings of the Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference. Perth, Australia. 

Syktus, J., Jeffrey, S., Rotstayn, L., Wong, K., Toombs, N., Dravitzki, S., Collier, M., Hamalainen, C., & Moeseneder, C. (2011). The CSIRO-QCCCE contribution to CMIP5 using the CSIRO Mk3.6 climate model. In Proceedings of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference. Perth, Australia.  

Tessendorf, S. A., Bruintjes, R. T., Weeks, C., Wilson, J. W., Knight, C. A., Roberts, R. D., Peter, J. R., Collis, S., Buseck, P. R., Freney, E., Dixon, M., Pocernich, M., Ikeda, K., Axisa, D., Nelson, E., May, P., Richter, H., Piketh, S., Burger, R. P., Wilson, L.,  Siems, S. T., Manton, M., Stone, R. C., Pepler, A., Collins, D. R., Bringi, V. N., Thurai, M., Turner, L., & McRae, D. (2011). The Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society.

Tessendorf, S., Bruintjes, R., Wilson, J., Roberts, R., Brandes, E., Knight, C., Dixon, M., Pocernich, M., Ikeda, K., Arnold, C., Axisa, D., Hall, W., Freney, E., Buseck, P. R., Towler, E., May, P., Peter, J., Wilson, L., Manton, M., Siems, S., Collis, S., Richter, H., Pepler, A., Craig, I., Stone, R., Piketh, S., Burger, R., & Collins, D. (2011). The Queensland Cloud Seeding Research Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society.

Wong, K., Syktus, J., Jeffrey, S., Toombs, N., & Rotstayn, L. (2011). Climate extremes during the 20th and 21st centuries simulated by the CSIRO Mk3.6 climate model with anthropogenic and natural forcings. In Proceedings of the  Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference. Perth, Australia.  

Zhang, X., & McRae, D. (2011). Constructing Regional Climate Change Projections for Queensland: A Methodology Review. In Proceedings of the Greenhouse 2011: The Science of Climate Change. Cairns, Australia.

Bange, M. P., Constable, G. A., McRae, D., & Roth, G. (2010). Cotton. In C. Stokes & M. Howden (Eds), Adapting agriculture to climate change: Preparing Australian agriculture, forestry and fisheries for the future. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia.

Carter, J., Bruget, D., Henry, B., Hassett, R., Stone, G., Day, K., Flood, N., & McKeon, G. (2010). Modeling vegetation, carbon and nutrient dynamics in the savanna woodlands of Australia with the AussieGRASS model’. In M. J. Hill & N. P. Hanan (Eds.), Ecosystem function in savannas: Measuring and modelling at landscape to global scales. CRC Press. 

Mahmood, R., Quintanar, A. I., Conner, G., Leeper, R., Dobler, S., Pielke, R. A., Beltran-Przekurat, A., Hubbard, K. G., Niyogi, D., Bonan, G., Lawrence, P., Chase, T., McNider, R., Wu, Y., McAlpine, C., Deo, R., Etter, A., Gameda, S., Qian, B., Carleton, A., Adegoke, J. O., Vezhapparambu, S., Asefi, S., Nair, U. S., Sertel, E., Legates, D. R., Hale, R., Frauenfeld, O. W., Watts, A., Shepherd, M., Mitra, C., Anantharaj, V. G., Fall, S., Chang, H., Lund, R., Treviño, A., Blanken, P., Du, J., & Syktus, J. (2010). Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 37-46. 

McAlpine, C. A., Ryan, J. G., Seabrook, L., Thomas, S., Dargusch, P. J., Syktus, J. I., Pielke Sr, R. A., Etter, A. E., Fearnside, P. M., & Laurance, W. F. (2010). More than CO2: A broader paradigm for managing climate change and variability to avoid ecosystem collapse. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Office of Climate Change. (2010). Consistent Climate Scenarios [Factsheet]. Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. .   

Office of Climate Change & Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence. (2010). Increasing Queensland's Resilience to Inland Flooding in a Changing Climate. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Parton, W., Scholes, R. J., Day, K., Carter, J. O., & Kelley, R. (2010). CENTURY-SAVANNA model for true-grass ecosystems. In M. J. Hill & N. P. Hanah (Eds.), Ecosystem function in savannas: Measurement and modelling at landscape to global scales. CRC Press.

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence. (2010). Climate Change in Queensland: What the Science is Telling Us. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence. (2010). Chilean Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami (February 2010). Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Coastal Unit. (2010). Tropical Cyclone Ului (March 2010). Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 

Rotstayn, L. D., Collier, M. A., Dix, M. R., Feng, Y., Gordon, H. B., O'Farrell, S. P., Smith, I. N. & Syktus, J. (2010). Improved simulation of Australian climate and ENSO-related rainfall variability in a global climate model with an interactive aerosol treatment. International Journal of Climatology, 30(7), 1067-1088.

Strand, L. B., Tong, S., Aird, R., & McRae, D. A. (2010). Vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change: the views of government stakeholders and other specialists in Queensland, Australia. BMC Public Health 2010, 10,  Article 441.

Tong, S., Maher, P., Fitzgerald, G., Mcrae, D., Verall, K., & Walker, D. (2010). Assessing the vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(2), 546-564.

Zhang, X., Abawi, Y., Dutta S., & McClymont, D. (2010). Developing ENSO-based irrigation water forecast system in a region with limited hydro-meteorological observations to mitigate the impacts of climate variability: A case study in Lombok, Indonesia. In Proceedings of the Climate Adaptation Futures: Preparing for the Unavoidable Impacts of Climate Change. Gold Coast, Australia.

Cobon, D. H., Stone, G. S., Carter, J. O., Scanlan, J. C., Toombs, N. R., Zhang, X., Willcocks J., & McKeon, G. M. (2009). The climate change risk management matrix for the grazing industry of northern Australia. The Rangeland Journal, 31(1). Accessory Publications: Matrix diagrams in Microsoft Excel format]

McKeon, G. M., Stone, G. S., Syktus, J. I., Carter, J. O., Flood, N. R., Ahrens, D. G., Bruget, D. N., Chilcott, C. R., Cobon, D. H., Cowley, R. A., Crimp, S. J., Fraser, G. W., Howden, S. M., Johnston, P. W., Ryan, J. G., Stokes, C. J., & Day, K. A. (2009). Climate change impacts on northern Australian rangeland livestock carrying capacity: A review of issues. The Rangeland Journal, 31(1).

McKeon, G. M., Stone, G. S., Syktus, J. I., Carter, J. O., Fraser, G. W., Crimp, S. J., & Howden, S. M. (2009). Climate change impacts on rangeland livestock carrying capacity: More questions than answers. In Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Australian Rangeland Society Conference. A Climate of change in the rangelands. Charters Towers, Australia.

Wheeler, M. C., Hendo, H. H., Cleland, S., Meinke, H., & Donald, A., (2009). Impacts of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Australian rainfall and circulation. Journal of Climate, 22(6), 1482–1498. 

Abawi, Y., Llanso, P., Harrison, M., & Mason, S. (2008). Water, health and early warnings. In A. Troccoli, M. Harrison, D. L. T. Anderson, & S. J. Mason (Eds.), Seasonal climate: Forecasting and managing risk (pp. 361-410). Berlin Heidelberg. Springer.

Brown, I. W., Scandol, J., Mayer, D., Campbell, M., Kondylas, S., McLennan, M., Williams, A., Krusic-Golub, K., & Treloar, T. (2008). Reducing uncertainty in the assessment of the Australian spanner crab fishery: Final report on Project 2003/06 to the Fishing Industry Reseach and Development Corporation. Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland Government.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2008). Impacts and adaptation to climate change in beef production systems in central Queensland. In Proceedings of the International Grasslands and Rangelands Congress (Vol. 1, p. 877). Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China.  

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2008). Impacts of climate change on regulated and non-regulated water systems in Australia. In Proceedings of the International Grasslands and Rangelands Congress (Vol. 1, p. 826). Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China.

Cobon, D. H., Bell, K. L., Park, J. N., & Keogh, D. U. (2008). Summative evaluation of climate application activities with pastoralistists in western Queensland. The Rangland Journal, 30, 361-374.   

Henry, B., Johnsson, I., Fraser, G., Carter, J., & Bray, S. (2008). Soil carbon: measurement issues and mitigation options – land use. In Proceedings of the Australian Farm Institute Conference. Gold Coast, Australia. 

Jones, P., Silcock, R., & Stone, G. (2008). Grazing land in “A” condition is stable and resilient. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Kucharski, F., Scaife, A. A., Yoo, J. H., Folland, C. K., Kinter, J., Knight, J., Fereday, D., Fischer, A. M., Jin, E. K., Kröger, J., Lau, N.-C., Nakaegawa, T. M., Nath, J., Pegion, P., Rozanov, E., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P. V., Syktus, J., Voldoire, A., Yoon, J. H., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2008). The CLIVAR C20C Project: skill of simulating Indian monsoon rainfall on interannual to decadal timescales: Does GHG forcing play a role? Climate Dynamics. 

Lehmann, J., Skjemstad, J., Sohi, S., Carter, J., Barson, M., Falloon, P., Coleman, K., Woodbury, P., & Krull, E. (2008). Australian climate-carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon. Nature Geoscience, 832-835.

McKeon, G., Chilcott, C., McGrath, W., Paton, C., Fraser, G., Stone G. and Ryan, J. (2008) ‘Assessing the value of trees in sustainable grazing systems’ (NBP.316). Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Environmental Protection Agency. Published July 2008, Meat & Livestock Australia, NSW.  

McKeon, G. M., Flood, N., Carter, J. O., Stone, G. S., Crimp, S. J., & Howden, S. M. (2008). Simulation of climate change impacts on livestock carrying capacity and production for the Garnaut Climate Change Review.   

Rayner D., Wall, C., Willcocks, J., Barley, R., & Prior, K. (2008). Climate and greenhouse. In The state of environment in Queensland: Atmosphere (pp. 48-61). Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government. 

Scaife A. A., Kucharski, F., Folland, C. K., Kinter, J., Brönnimann, S., Fereday, D., Fischer, A. M., Grainger, S., Jin, E. K., Kang, I. S., Knight, J. R., Kusunoki, S., Lau, N. C., Nath, M. J., Nakaegawa, T., Pegion P., Schubert, S., Sporyshev, P., Syktus, J., Yoon, J. H., Zeng, N., & Zhou, T. (2008). The CLIVAR C20C Project: Selected 20th Century climate events. Climate Dynamics. 

Stokes, C. J., Crimp, S., Gifford, R., Stone, G., Cobon, D., Ash, A., Howden, S. M., & McKeon, G. (2008). Broad acre grazing. In S. J. Stokes & S. M. Howden (Eds.), An overview of climate change adaptation in Australian primary industries: Impacts, options and priorities. CSIRO.

Stone, G., Fraser, G., O’Reagain, P., Timmers, P., & Bushell, J. (2008). A new methodology for the calculation of pasture utilisation for grazing lands. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Syktus, J., & Jeffrey, S. (2008). Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. In The state of environment in Queensland, Atmosphere (pp. 62-74). 

The GRASP Modelling Team. (2008). Improving Grazing Management using the GRASP Model (Final Report No. NBP.338). Meat and Livestock Australia.

Timmers, P., Zhang, B., Panjkov, A., Stone, G., & Day, K. (2008). FORAGE – A web-based framework for generating decision support information for sustainable grazing land management. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.  

Williams, A. J., & Stone, R. C. (2008). An assessment of relationships between the Australian subtropical ridge, rainfall variability, and high-latitude circulation patterns'. International Journal of Climatology. International Journal of Climatology. 

Zhang, B. (2008). Climate risk assessment report (prototype). Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Government.

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Zhang, B., Stone, G., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Day, K., Panjkov, A., & McKeon, G. (2008). Quantifying degradation risk – integrating climate risk into rangeland management. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society Conference. Charters Towers, Australia.

Cobon, D. H., Toombs, N. R., & Zhang, X. (2007). Climate change impacts on the sediment load for the Nogoa catchment of the Fitzroy Basin. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 853-859). University of Canterbury.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Climate change impacts on the water resources of the Cooper Creek Catchment. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 483-489). University of Canterbury.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Desert Channels Queensland report: Climate change impacts on the water resources on the Cooper Creek catchment (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Fitzroy Basin Report, Part B: Climate change impacts on the sediment load for the Nogoa catchment of the Fitzroy Basin (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.

Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: Queenland Case Studies, Fitzroy Basin Report, Part A: Production and natural resource indicators in beef systems under climate change conditions (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra. 

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Cobon, D. H., & Toombs, N. R. (2007). Practical adaptation to climate change in regional natural resource management: South-East Queensland Western Catchments Report. Climate change impacts on water resources of South-East Queensland Western Catchments (Project EP08). Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.  

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Heyhoe, E., Yeon, K, Kokic, P., Levantis, C., Ahammad, H., Schnider, K., Crimp, S., Nelson, R., Flood, N., & Carter, J. (2007). Adapting to climate change: issues and challenges in the agriculture sector. Australian Commodities: 14(1), 167-178. 

Kokic, P., Nelson, R., Meinke, H., Potgieter, A., & Carter, J. (2007). From rainfall to farm incomes – transforming advice for Australian drought policy I: development and testing of a bio-economic modelling system. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 58(10), 993–1003.

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McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J., Deo, R. C., McGowan, H. A., Watterson, I. G., Phinn, S. R., & Lawrence, P. J. (2007). Modeling the impact of historical land cover change on Australia’s regional climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 34.

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Watterson, I. G., & Syktus, J. (2007). The influence of air–sea interaction on the Madden-Julian Oscillation: the role of the seasonal mean state. Climate Dynamics, 28(7–8), 703–722.

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Henry, B., Mitchell, C., Cowie, A., Woldring, O., & Carter, J. (2005). A regional interpretation of rules and good practice for greenhouse accounting: northern Australia savannah systems. Australian Journal of Botany, 53(7), 589-605.

Hill M., Roxburgh S., Carter J., & McKeon G. (2005). Vegetation state change and consequent carbon dynamics in savanna woodlands of Australia in response to grazing, drought and fire: A scenario approach using 113 years of synthetic annual fire and grassland growth. Australian Journal of Botany, 53, 715-739.

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Cai, W., Crimp, S., McInnes, K., Hunt, B., Suppiah, R., Collier, M., Elliot, T., Hennessy, K., Jones, R., Page, C., & Whetton, P. (2003). Climate change in Queensland under enhanced greenhouse conditions (Annual report 2002-2003). A report on research undertaken for Queensland Departments of State Devlopment, Main Roads, Health, Transport, Treasury, Public Works, Primary Industries & Fisheries, Environmental Protection, Natural Resources & Mines, Queensland Rail, SunWater, CS Energy. CSIRO Atmospheric Research. 

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Day, K., Ahrens, D., & McKeon G. (2003). Simulating historical droughts: some lessons for drought policy. In Proceedings of the National Drought Forum: Science for Drought (pp. 141-151). Brisbane, Queensland.

de Vries, J. J., Waldron, J., & Cunningham, V. (2003). Field tests of the new Datawell DWR-G GPS wave buoy. Sea Technology, 44(12), 50-55.

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Paull, C., & Peacock, A. (2003). Survey of users of the DPI SOI Hotlines. Department of Primary Industry, Queensland Government.

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Paull, C. (2002). The value and benefits of using seasonal climate forecasts in making business decisions: A review. Department of Primary Industries, Queensland Government.  

Peacock, A., Flood, N., Ahrens, D., Brook, K., Chilcott, C., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Collett, L., Crimp, S., Day, K., Hall, W., Hassett, R., Henry, B., McKeon, G., McRae, D., Paull, C., & Stone, R. (2002). The long paddock website: Climate management information for rural Australia. In Proceedings of the Australian Rangeland Society 12th Biennial Conference. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

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Collet, L., Hassett, R., Taube, C., Flood, N., & Hall, W. (2001). Validation of NOAA fire scar maps in the Laura Basin using Landsat TM imagery and field data. Climate Impacts and Natural Resource Systems, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

Day, K., & Paull, C. (2001). Development and evaluation of reports on seasonal conditions for Queensland. Rural Risk Strategies Unit, Department of primary Industry, Queensland Government. 

Dyer, R., Café, L., & Craig, A. (2001). Australian grassland and rangeland assessment by spatial simulation (Aussie GRASS) NT and Kimberley rangeland sub-project. Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland Government. 

Hall, W., Bruget, D., Carter, J., McKeon, G., Yee Yet, J., Peacock, A., Hassett R., & Brook K. (2001). The Aussie GRASS final report for the climate variability in agriculture program (QNR9). Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland Government.

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