Vulnerability of the Murray-Darling basin hydrometeorology to human modification

默里-达令盆地(MDB)提供了澳大利亚40%的农业生产。约有1,500,000公顷土地用于农业灌溉，生产力的年际变化突显了一个容易受到人类活动变化影响的流域。这项建议建立了一个多边开发银行的综合模拟系统，以便在人类适应气候和流域土地利用的背景下了解其水文学和气象学。对多边开发银行的更好了解将有助于制定具有科学意识的政策，减少流域内农业和水资源对人类活动造成的未来变化的脆弱性。

The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) provides 40 per cent of Australia's agricultural production. Some 1,500,000 hectares use irrigation for agriculture and year-to-year variations in productivity highlights a basin that is vulnerable to changes resulting from human activity. This proposal builds an integrated modelling system of the MDB to understand its hydrology and meteorology in the context of human modification to climate and to land use in the basin. The improved understanding of the MDB will allow science-aware policy developments that reduce the vulnerability of agriculture and water resources within the basin to future changes caused through human activity.