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Maintaining Reliable Agriculture Productivity and Goyder’s Line of Reliable Rainfall

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Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors (FMfI 2016)

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Our aim in this study is to generate rainfall totals using multidimensional copulas designed to simulate realistic rainfall statistics that inform analysis of current rainfall patterns and enables better projections for a comprehensive range of future scenarios which can be used as input to ecological models including yield crop simulations for management and risk assessment. To demonstrate the mathematical models, we consider a Case Study of Goyder’s line of reliable rainfall and the goal of maintaining reliable agriculture productivity in South Australia. We will present the results from the rainfall models using copulas of maximum entropy and discuss how they can be used to assist with management of land use in South Australia.

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  1. University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Julia Piantadosi

  2. CSIRO Data61, Canberra, Australia

    Robert S. Anderssen

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  1. Mathematics, Information and Statistics, CSIRO, Acton, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Robert S. Anderssen

  2. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Philip Broadbridge

  3. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Yasuhide Fukumoto

  4. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kenji Kajiwara

  5. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Matthew Simpson

  6. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Ian Turner

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Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. (2018). Maintaining Reliable Agriculture Productivity and Goyder’s Line of Reliable Rainfall. In: Anderssen, R., Broadbridge, P., Fukumoto, Y., Kajiwara, K., Simpson, M., Turner, I. (eds) Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors. FMfI 2016. Mathematics for Industry, vol 28. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7811-8_9

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