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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Airplane ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:26:02. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Peter Bate. Timecode In: 00:30:28. Timecode out: 00:44:09. Notes: Australian weather; Australia; Peter Bate; weather discussion. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: William John Freeland. Timecode In: 00:44:46. Timecode out: 01:23:42. Notes: Australia; William John Freeland; Cane Toad discussion. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Michael Patrick Scully. Timecode In: 01:24:41. Timecode out: 01:41:01. Notes: Interview about being Australian; Australia; Michael Patrick Scully; being Australian discussion. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Michael Patrick Scully. Timecode In: 01:42:50. Timecode out: 01:43:39. Notes: Describes local vegitation; Australia; Michael Patrick Scully; being Australian discussion. Habitat: ; ; ; ; ; ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo. LNS #147632 Show: Australia Log of DAT #: 1-4 Engineer: Manoli Wetherell Date: 20 March 2000 ng = not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good MW: Manoli Wetherll AC: Alex Chadwick PB: Peter Bate :27 AC: It's March 22, 10:36 AM, in the office of Peter Bates at the meteorological bureau in Darwin, here's some room tone. :36-1:12 ROOM TONE 2:07 PB: I'm the manager of climate services in the weather bureau in Darwin. AC: You have a map .. . Manoli, get him while he's looking at the map. PB: this shows the percentage of rainfall over all of Aust. during the month of feb. We've been talking about above average rainfall over Aust. And you can see there ' s a very large area here in central Austr. and also down thru the eastern part of south Aust. and western New South Wales, parts of Queensland, a little bit of western Aust. where the rainfall for Feb was more than 400% of the normal. So it's been very heavy rain. In fact there aren't any comparatively small areas near the east and west coasts and a little bit slightly inland in the northern part of the northern territory where it's been below average. Generally it's above average over almost the whole continent. 3:16 AC: We were surprised to come up and see Alice Springs all green, to,look down from an airplane and see so much green. PB : Yeah, well, you' re really lucky to see that because in most years you wouldn't see that, but after heavy rain it comes green, it's beautiful. AC: can you tell me, right there in the center of that dark purple blot that takes up most of the central part of Aust, there's a little lighter place, a bluer dot. What's that? PB: Well it's still wet, but not quite as wet as the big blot. The big purple blot is rainfall more than 400% of the average, and that grades down in the middle of the blot to 2-300%. 4:09 AC: where would that be? Is that where Oolaroo or Ayer' s Rock is? vw PB: Close to there, yes. AC: it's just about where that blue dot is? PB: Yeah, pretty close. AC: Why is there less rain there? PB: Why? AC: Here's a typical journalist question. PB: Natural climate variability's the best way to describe that. When you look at any of those patterns, although you can see some pattern in it, there's a large amount of variation across any area. It's not smooth, it' s bumpy. And that' s what weather and climate does. There's always large amounts of peaks and troughs in it. 4:55 AC: people say that Aust is a very dry place. Is it changing? PB: Uh .. . there have been studies done by CSIRO and others that show over the past 50 yrs or so an increasing trend in rainfall, but I can't give you a figure offhand I'd have to go back and read the numbers. But it's not suddenly going from dry to wet. It's going from dry to in some places to a little bit less dry. AC: I've talked to Australians who think that the climate is changing , who think that Aust is going to be different. PB: Who think that Aust is... (Notes truncated)
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