A report on the impacts on the importation of Leggett’s Rainbowfish, Glossolepis leggetti, for use as an ornamental aquarium species in the Australian Aquarium Trade. Prepared by Dave Wilson1*, Glenn Briggs2 and Danny Brown3

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Appendix A

Climate Comparison using the Climate program from WA Government Weed Risk Assessment Program. Comparing the Irian Jaya Climate with Australian Climate.

CLIMATE

Climate prediction system

Analysis results for Irian Jaya

Summarizing prediction for statistics

16 variables in analysis.

5 location records analysed.

Cummulative method used. Closest Euclidian match used.

	MEAN	St. Dev	SKEW	KURTOSIS	MIN	MAX
1 Mean annual temp.	26.52	0.33	-0.62	2.29	26.01	26.87
2 Min temp. cool month	21.24	1.02	0.72	2.04	20.30	22.80
3 Max temp. warm month	32.10	1.46	0.70	2.32	30.60	34.40
4 Average temp range	10.86	2.21	-0.06	2.15	7.80	13.80
5 Mean temp. cool quarter	25.78	0.67	0.18	1.67	25.00	26.67
6 Mean temp. warm quarter	27.15	0.74	0.29	2.32	26.20	28.25
7 Mean temp. wet quarter	26.31	0.60	0.31	1.75	25.63	27.13
8 Mean temp. dry quarter	26.67	0.80	0.02	1.55	25.73	27.67
9 Average annual rainfall	2568.80	560.76	0.25	2.44	1827.00	3397.00
10 Rainfall wet month	361.60	146.99	1.23	2.93	239.00	615.00
11 Rainfall dry month	113.60	33.58	-0.05	1.67	70.00	154.00
12 CV monthly rainfall	39.79	18.59	0.80	2.29	22.84	69.30
13 Rainfall wet quarter	971.20	413.11	1.42	3.14	709.00	1702.00
14 Rainfall dry quarter	391.80	118.25	-0.19	1.86	228.00	532.00
15 Rainfall cool quarter	786.40	517.20	0.94	2.52	304.00	1633.00
16 Rainfall warm quarter	479.60	150.57	0.38	1.25	341.00	661.00

Australian prediction:

Data point Match

Summary of Prediction

0 locations within 50 % of the mean.

0 locations within 40 % of the mean.

0 locations within 30 % of the mean.

0 locations within 20 % of the mean.

0 matching locations from 2798 comparisons.
The output location file is Irian Jaya.doc and possesses the following format:

latitude longitude code - where code is a number proportional to climate similarity.

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