Local winemakers will be able to plan ahead to tackle the effects of climate change with the help of 'Australia's Wine Future: A Climate Atlas'.
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The Climate Atlas is an output of a three-year project and is an online atlas that gives climate information about the wine regions in Australia.
The project shares details regarding the short-term and long-term trends for the country's 71 wine regions until 2100.
Dr Rebecca Harris, the lead researcher of the project, feels that the Climate Atlas will help the winemakers to "think about the future".
"For the first time, this kind of information is available. The aim of the project is to provide a detailed climate predictions in an accessible and useful form to Australia's wine producers.
"Wine Australia funded it acknowledging that climate is changing and that will bring a few challenges with it," she said.
It has five broad groupings of climate variables for different regions focusing on temperature, rainfall, extremes of heat and cold, and aridity.
The Climate Atlas provides a range of insights, including which regions are currently experiencing conditions to those projected in 2100.
It will help inform adaptation planning decisions so that the Australian wine community can continue to maintain grape yields, value, and quality into the future.
The project has been developed by the Climate Futures Group at the University of Tasmania and funded by Wine Australia.
Dr Harris will give an overview of the information on August 6 at the Hume Citizens Climate Lobby event.
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