Andrew W Western
The University of Melbourne
Research areas: Environmental Science · Water Science and Technology · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing · Soil and Unsaturated Flow
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About
Prof Western has more than twenty years experience in catchment and waterway research, teaching and consulting. He has experience in the fields of hydrology, water resources, hydraulics and related disciplines. He completed his PhD over the period 1991-1994 on hydraulic and hydrologic modelling to support environmental flow management in the Wimmera River. Since then he has worked as a researcher for the Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology, Technical University of Vienna, The CRC for Catchment Hydrology and eWater CRC. He is now the Director of Infrastructure for the Melbourne School of Engineering. Prof Western has expertise in field monitoring, physically-based and conceptual catchment and river modelling, catchment water quality, catchment analysis and remote sensing and has concentrated on integrating these areas to support catchment system understanding and management. He has undertaken major field programs in Australia and New Zealand investigating catchment behaviour and has made leading contributions to spatial analysis in hydrology, particularly in the area of spatial soil moisture variability, patterns and processes.
A range of active collaborations with industry allow Prof Western to maintain the industry relevance of his work. These include projects concentrating on estuarine management, groundwater resources, catchment monitoring, water resources management and, through eWater CRC, catchment and stream water quality. He has contributed to development of the Thales physically-based catchment model, models of salinity stratification in inland rivers and soil property and vegetation data sets available through the Catchment Modelling Toolkit. In addition to his research and consulting work, Prof Western teaches surface hydrology, earth processes and environmental modelling and supervises a number of PhD students.
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University of Melbourne Professor1995 - Present
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Publications (239)
- Fresher Streams After a Prolonged Drought in Victoria, Australia Save
- Tracing Flow Pathways of Nutrients in Dairy Farms—An End Member Mixing Analysis Approach Save
- Coherent interdecadal cycles in global rainfall, temperature, and cloud cover with alignment to Jovian orbital periods Save
- Coherent interdecadal cycles in global rainfall, temperature, and cloud cover Save
- Climate change paradox: worsening droughts amidst increasing average precipitation across South Korea Save
- Quantifying Evaporation Losses from On-Farm Storages Using Water-Level Observations Save
- Investigating relationships between nitrogen inputs and in-stream nitrogen concentrations and exports across catchments in Victoria, Australia Save
- Selective incorporation of trend into seasonal streamflow climatology Save
- Interdecadal rainfall cycles in spatially coherent global regions and their relationship to the climate modes Save
- Flood monitoring: A hydrologically guided method for infilling incomplete flood inundation maps derived from satellite images Save
- Interdecadal rainfall cycles in spatially coherent global regions and their interaction with climate modes Save
- Supplementary material to "Interdecadal rainfall cycles in spatially coherent global regions and their interaction with climate modes" Save
- Investigating Relationships Between Nitrogen Inputs and In-Stream Nitrogen Concentrations and Exports Across Catchments in Victoria, Australia Save
- Supplementary material to "Investigating Relationships Between Nitrogen Inputs and In-Stream Nitrogen Concentrations and Exports Across Catchments in Victoria, Australia" Save
- Slow and Quick Flow Models Explain the Temporal Dynamics of Daily Salinity in Streams Save
- Interdecadal cycles in Australian annual rainfall Save
- Correlations between catchment-scale farm infrastructure densities and stocking rate to stream nutrient concentrations in dairy-dominant catchments Save
- Benchmarking farm-level cotton water productivity using on-farm irrigation measurements and remotely sensed yields Save
- Using Information Theory to Optimize Sampling of Isotope Tracers for Transit Time Estimation Save
- Can Measurement and Input Uncertainty Explain Discrepancies Between the Wheat Canopy Scattering Model and SMAPVEX12 Observations? Save