This page provides an extensive collection of resources on climate and weather events, including the impacts of climate change on the Australian grape and wine industry. Resources include a range of fact sheets, case studies, booklets, toolkits, and links to key weather and forecasting tools from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
Weather and forecasting tools
- Access weather information from the BOM on your smart phone – Apple and Google Play
- ACORN SAT – Australian Daily Temperature Data
- BOM Meteye
- a 7-day forecast across Australia on a 3-6 km map grid. Forecasts are updated twice per day during the early morning and late afternoon. Multi-week to seasonal forecast tools (including temperature, rainfall or extreme temperatures) can now also be trialled through http://poama.bom.gov.au
- Climate change – trends and extremes
- BOM frost potential maps
- Designed for agriculture, maps show forecast low temperature thresholds for various locations across Australia. The maps are updated each day and show forecasts for the next 48 hours
- BOM heatwave services
- Heatwave knowledge centre and forecast maps
- Climate atlas
- Climate projections for Australia’s wine regions. Details information about how the climate may change in the near, mid and long-term time horizons (out to 2100)
- Himawari-8 satellite
- near real-time imagery allows you to zoom in to 0.5-2 km resolution, with new colour images uploaded every ten minutes. This allows you to see cyclones, storm events, fog, volcanic ash and perhaps bushfire plumes, potentially giving an indication if your vineyard has been exposed to smoke
- NASA fire information for resource management system (FIRMS) – active fire event locations
- Seasonal outlooks
- Weekly, monthly and seasonal outlooks
- Sentinel bushfire hotspots live interactive map
Climate education
Climate research
- Australian wine industry tackling climate change (The Conversation, 7 August 2013)
- NSW Government climate projections
- Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P.R., Ikegami, M., Shepard, A.V., Shaw, R., Tabor, G., Zhi, L., Marquet, P.A., Hijmans, R.J. 2013. Climate change, wine, and conservation. PNAS 110(17): 6907-6912.
- Evaluation of alternative wine grape varieties in Manjimup, WA
Energy efficiency, sustainability and wastewater management
- Improving winery refrigeration and efficiency (PDF booklet)
- Wine Australia’s wastewater management online resource kit
- SAWIA’s winery energy saver toolkit
Floods and wet vintages
- Managing waterlogged vineyards (AWRI fact sheet)
- Flooded vineyard case studies (Wine Australia fact sheet)
- Managing Botrytis-infected fruit, must and wine
- Non-botrytis bunch rots: Q and A (Wine Australia fact sheet)
- Botrytis information pack
Frosts
- Frost management in vineyards (AWRI fact sheet)
- Assessing damage after a frost event (AWRI fact sheet)
- Protecting your vineyard from frost (AWRI demonstration video)
- Managing frost (AWRI webinar 29 September 2020)
- Vineyard frost management strategies (AWRI webinar 17 September 2015)
- Bureau of Meteorology frost risk outlook and frost warning service (AWRI webinar 5 September 2019)
- Managing frost-affected vines (AWRI eBulletin 18 September 2024)
- Frost information pack
Hail
- Managing grapevines after hail damage (AWRI fact sheet)
- Bouncing back from a hail event (AWRI webinar 12 November 2021)
- Recovering from hail damage – looking back on what we learnt from the 2021 season (AWRI webinar 18 August 2022)
- Recovery from hail damage – Grapevines (Horticulture Industry Networks)
- Hail and severe storms (NSW DPI grapevine management guide 2019-20)
Heatwaves, drought and bushfires
- Bunch exposure management (GWRDC fact sheet)
- Climate and wine production
- Managing grapevines during heatwaves (Wine Australia fact sheet)
- Heatwave management information pack
- Prevention and management of stuck fermentations
- Salinity management interpretation guide (PDF download)
- Small-lot fermentation method
- Coulter, A. 2008. Vintage 2008 – a heat wave and stuck fermentations. AWRI Technical Review (175): 14-22