Welcome to Terra Nova - The Australian Climate Change Adaptation Information Hub

Climate Change Adaptation Information Hub
Share

Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment [Technical Report]


Comprehensive technical report with findings from the First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment focusing on groundwater availability for future climates. Geoscience Australia undertook a desktop analysis to better understand the vulnerability of fresh groundwater systems to future climates for 15 Pacific Island countries and territories taking into consideration the impacts of future climates on groundwater systems at a regional scale. This study has been conducted in consultation with Pacific Island groundwater hydrology experts. This technical report has results on the potential vulnerability of groundwater to: (i) low rainfall periods and (ii) mean sea-level rise, using a groundwater vulnerability framework.

This report has been produced by Geoscience Australia and was funded under the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) programme. Geoscience Australia Record 2014/43

The dataset associated with this report  is also available.

File Type: PDF File Size: 23.61 MB


Categorization

Contents
File PDF documentRec2014 043

Metadata

Detailed Descriptions
Report
https://www.pacificclimatechange.net/document/pacific-island-groundwater-regional-vulnerability-assessment
040603 - Hydrogeology, 040608 - Surfacewater Hydrology, 040104 - Climate Change Processes
http://www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/adaptation/international-climate-change-adaptation-initiative/paccsap, http://www.ga.gov.au/about/what-we-do/projects/water/pacific-island-groundwater-and-future-climates-first-pass-regional-vulnerability-assessment; http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/81575;
Geographic and Temporal Extents
Start Start text End End text
Attributions and Constraints
© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2014. With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, all material in this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. All Rights (including copyright) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2014
Commonwealth
Authors: P. Dixon-Jain, R. Norman, G. Stewart, K. Fontaine, K. Walker, B. Sundaram, E. Flannery, A. Riddell, L. Wallace
Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2014.043 Dixon-Jain, P., Norman, R., Stewart, G., Fontaine, K., Walker, K., Sundaram, B., Flannery, E., Riddell, A., Wallace, L. 2014. Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-Pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment. Record 2014/43. Geoscience Australia,
clientservices@ga.gov.au. internationaladaptation@environment.gov.au
2014