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DR MURRAY PEEL



Contact Details

Organization: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/about/webpage.php3?login=mpeel
Work: 8344 5627
Fax: 83446215
Room: 417
Level: 04
Building: Engineering Block D
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 30-Jun-1999
Bachelor of Science (Honours in Geography) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
CHARACTERISING AUSTRALIAN HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY WITH AN IMPROVED HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORM METHODOLOGY Chief Investigator CSIRO FLAGSHIP COLLABORATIVE FUND,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Water for a Healthy Country Cluster (CSIRO FLAGSHIP COLLABORATIVE FUND) 01/06/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

  • Application of the generalized extreme value distribution to Australian peak discharge data
    Year: 2009
    Book: Advances in Geosciences Vol. 11: Hydrological Science
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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Journal Articles

  • Assessing the performance of rational sline-based empirical mode decomposition using a global annual precipitation dataset
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Royal Society of London Proceedings - Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
    Volume: 465
    Issue: 2106
    Page numbers: 1919-1937
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A New Approach to Stochastically Generating Six-Monthly Rainfall Sequences Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1377-1389
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  • Empirical Mode Decomposition Using Rational Splines: An Application to Rainfall Time Series
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Royal Society of London Proceedings - Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
    Volume: 464
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1483-1501
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  • Flow Characteristics of Rivers in Northern Australia: Implications for Development
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 357
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 93-111
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  • Understanding the Surface Hydrology of the Lake Eyre Basin: Part 1 - Rainfall
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Arid Environments
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1853-1868
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  • Understanding the Surface Hydrology of the Lake Eyre Basin: Part 2 - Streamflow
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Arid Environments
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1869-1886
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Generalized Extreme Value distribution fitted by LH-moments for low flow frequency analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Water Resources Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: W06301, doi:10.1029/2006WR004913
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  • Global Streamflows - Part 2: Reservoir storage-yield performance
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 347
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 260-271
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  • Global streamflows - Part 1: Characteristics of annual streamflows
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 347
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 243-259
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  • Global streamflows - Part 3: Country and climate zone characteristics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 347
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 272-291
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  • Review of Gould–Dincer reservoir storage–yield–reliability estimates
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Advances in Water Resources
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 1873–1882
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  • Revisiting reservoir storage-yield relationships using a global streamflow database
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Advances in Water Resources
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 1858-1872
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  • Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1633-1644
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Empirical Mode Decomposition: Improvement and Application
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2996-3002
    Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australasia(Canberra)
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  • How Significant is the BIAS in Low Flow Quantiles Estimated by L- and LH-Moments?
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2500-2505
    Publisher: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand(Melbourne)
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  • Physically-Based Prediction of Water Yield from Disturbed Forested Water Supply Catchments
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 2953-2959
    Publisher: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Precipitation elasticity of streamflow in catchments across the world
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Fifth FRIEND World Conference
    Conference Publication: Climate Variability and Change – Hydrological Impacts
    Volume: 308
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 256-262
    Publisher: IAHS Press(Wallingford)
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  • Stochastic modeling of annual rainfall data
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 30th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 30th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Conference Design(Sandy Bay)
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Reports

  • Hydrology of the Lake Eyre Basin
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Natural Heritage Trust
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: Sinclair Knight Merz(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Global analysis of runs of annual precipitation and runoff equal to or below the median: run magnitude and severity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Climatology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 549-568
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Dealing with zero-low flow quantiles in developing regional regression models
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia(Barton)
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  • Identification of oscillations in historical global streamflow data using empirical mode decomposition
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 7th International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Scientific Assembly
    Conference Publication: International Symposium on Regional Hydrological Impacts of Climatic Variability and Change
    Volume: 296
    Page numbers: 53-62
    Publisher: International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press(Wallingford)
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  • Issues with the application of Empirical Mode Decomposition Analysis
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM
    Conference Publication: Issues with the application of Empirical Mode Decomposition Analysis
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1681-1687
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Continental differences in the variability of annual runoff - update and reassessment
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 295
    Page numbers: 185-197
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Global analysis of runs of annual precipitation and runoff equal to or below the median run length
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Climatology
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 807-822
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Application of the truncated generalized extreme value distribution to estimate extreme low flow quantiles - a case study using the Gin Ganga at Agaliya, Sri Lanka
    Year: 2004
    Event name: International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the changing environment of the Monsoon region
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the changing environment of the Monsoon region.
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 174-183
    Publisher: National Water Resources Secretariat(Colombo)
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Identification of the most appropriate regression procedure to regionalize extreme low flows
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 28th International hydrology and water resources symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 28th International hydrology and water resources symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 181-188
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia(Canberra)
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  • Modelling impacts of land use change on low flows in the North Esk River using the Macaque Model
    Year: 2003
    Event name: MODSIM 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of MODSIM 2003
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 849-854
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Application and testing of the simple rainfall-runoff model SIMHYD
    Year: 2002
    Book: Mathematical models of small watershed hydrology and applications
    Publisher: Water Resources Publications, LLC(Colorado)
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Journal Articles

  • Implications of the relationship between catchment vegetation type and the variability of annual runoff
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Hydrological Processes
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 2995-3002
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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  • Variability of annual precipitation and its relationship to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Climate
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 545-551
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society(Massachusetts)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Extension of monthly unimpaired streamflow data for Australia
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Hydrology and water resources symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the hydrology and water resources symposium 2002
    Volume: M3
    Page numbers: 2.8
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Identification and explanation of continental differences in the variability of annual runoff
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 250
    Page numbers: 224-240
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  • The utility of L-moment ratio diagrams for selecting a regional probability distribution
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Hydrological Sciences Journal
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 147-155
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Evolution of a Hillslope Hydrologic Model
    Year: 2001
    Event name: MODSIM 2001
    Conference Publication: MODSIM 2001 Proceedings
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 461-467
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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