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2024 North Australia Savanna Fire Forum

Tammy Hunter

Indigenous Engagement Lead 

Your location. Your commodity. Your climate.

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Cast your mind forward to 2050.

How will the changing climate impact Caring for Country ?

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Climate services for agriculture

  • The Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) program is funded through the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund.
  • Delivered in partnership between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO.
  • Nationally consistent suite of tools and data provision that contributes to better climate information for a stronger, more resilient Australian agriculture sector. 
  • Outputs include:
    • My Climate View
    • 'MapView' Explorer
    • API access and a unique and practical database of climate data use

'MapView' Explorer'

Direct API Access

CSA Data and Insights

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General: Climate factors average maximum temperature

Example

Commodity: General

Location: Darwin

Climate factor: Average maximum temperature

Historical time period 1963–1992, 1993–2022

Future time period: 2030, 2050, 2070

Emission scenario: RCP4.5

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Other climate factors

Rainfall

  • Annual rainfall
  • Autumn rainfall
  • Winter rainfall
  • Summer rainfall
  • Spring rainfall

Temperature

  • Average maximum temperature
  • Average minimum temperature
  • Annual hot days
  • Annual cold days

Water

  • Autumn evapotranspiration
  • Winter evapotranspiration
  • Summer evapotranspiration
  • Spring evapotranspiration

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Future climate overview Darwin

What to expect from climate at Darwin by the 2050s

Click 'explore detail' on each climate factor to view detailed past and future climate information, including the range in potential future climates.

Actual changes may vary from the projections shown below.

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Indigenous engagement

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Indigenous engagement started in 2022

Region: Northern Australia Tropical Savanna Woodlands region

We have been engaging with a wide range of Indigenous land management activities. This includes engaging with Indigenous community commercial organisations involved in:

  • agriculture
  • natural, cultural resource management  
  • bushfood industry
  • and carbon farming.

"This platform will be great for our future plan 40 years ahead" General Manager – Tiwi Island Plantation

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Key themes �

  • Natural resources management (NRM)
  • Agricultural 
  • Bushfood 
  • Carbon farming 
  • Cultural fire management 
  • Caring for Country

We have engaged with over 80 Indigenous organisations, including agriculture, the bushfood industries and land managers.​

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 Engagement insights – what we've heard

'What does this mean for our turtles, the sand temperature determines the gender of the turtles'

'This will mean we have to change the way we are caring for country due to climate change'

'Our billabongs are drying out – this has links to our bushfood and cultural activities'

'When a particular plant flowers, we know the salmon are in season for hunting. That plant is now flowering earlier due to climate change'

'Our cultural burns are starting earlier every year due to weather changing'

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Pilot Project Indigenous Knowledge Seasonal Calendar

Rainfall April 1910-1965

Max temperature 1910-1965

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Pilot Project: 100 Year Historical Climate Date

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Map View Satellite Imaging with training and development

Max heat 2036 - 2045

Rain fall 2036 - 2045

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Pilot project:  Bush Tomato rain and frost projections

Rainfall

Frost

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We have now time travelled

to 2050.

What are the climate impacts Caring for Country –� Land Management?

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Contact Details

Tammy Hunter

Indigenous Engagement Lead

Climate Services for Agriculture, Water and Climate

Bureau of Meteorology

Tammy.hunter@bom.gov.au

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Thank you

My Climate View is a collaboration between Australia's �national science agency CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

 

It was developed as part of the Climate Services for Agriculture program, �which received funding from the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund.

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