Considerable effort has been expended on finding linkages between regional hydroclimate and large‐scale climate variability modes on interannual to decadal time scales. Most of these studies have investigated the influence of modes as a set of independent individuals rather than as a system of possibly interacting variables. Moreover, the impacts of interactions between modes and local‐scale weather features are rarely explore...

A large literature on the sensitivity of streamflow response to climate variations has emerged over the past several decades, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. The usual approaches to this problem have been simple and do not fully address its complexity, which involves the individual and joint effects of large‐scale climate modes and smaller‐scale weather features on streamflow volumes, the presence of pe...

Understanding the relationships between large-scale, low-frequency climate variability modes, fire weather conditions and lighting-ignited wildfires has implications for fire-weather prediction, fire management and conservation. This article proposes a Bayesian network framework for quantifying the influence of climate modes on fire weather conditions and occurrence of lightning-ignited wildfires. The main objectives are to de...

The impact of climate change on hydrology and water resources is one of the most critical issues facing the world in the next few decades. In particular, there is a need to quantify the risks associated with maintaining the security of resource quantity and quality, and to assess the effectiveness of potential management strategies. In this paper, we assess the impacts of climate variability and change on one aspect of river h...

The perception prevalent in the literature that Australian rainfall records are reasonably uncontaminated by untagged weekend accumulations is reassessed. An objective probabilistic test for untagged accumulations is developed and applied to 181 gauges that have previously been identified as having high‐quality data suitable for long‐term analyses of climate change. As many as 102 of these gauges are found to contain hidden, u...