Publications

This publication list is ordered alphabetically by lead author, with names of contributing members from the Centre are in bold. To obtain a copy of any of these publications contact the relevant team member via the Centre Team page.

In press - 2011 - 2010

In press and Online First/Early View

Alexander L, Wang XL, Wan H, Trewin B. (In press). Significant decline in storminess over south-east Australia since the late 19th century. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal.

Allen, R. J., and S. C. Sherwood (In Press), The impact of natural versus anthropogenic aerosols on atmospheric circulation in the Community Atmosphere Model, Climate Dynamics.

Beaumont, L., A. J. Pitman, L. Hughes, and M. Poulsen (In Press), Within and between climate model variability in the simulation of the impact of climate change on butterfly species in Australia, Global Change Biology.

Caesar, J., L. V. Alexander, B. Trewin, K. Tse-ring, et al. (Appeared Online), Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over the Indo-Pacific region from 1971 to 2005, International Journal of Climatology.

Evans, J. P., A. J. Pitman, and F. T. Cruz (Appeared Online), Coupled atmospheric and land surface dynamics over southeast Australia: a review, analysis and identification of future research priorities, International Journal of Climatology.

Mao, J., A. J. Pitman, S. J. Phipps, G. Abramowitz, et al. (Appeared Online), Global and regional coupled climate sensitivity to the parameterization of rainfall interception, Climate Dynamics.

Pielke. R.A.Sr., Andy Pitman, Dev Niyogi, Rezaul Mahmood, Clive McAlpine, Faisal Hossain, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Udaysankar Nair, Richard Betts, Souleymane Fall, Markus Reichstein, Pavel Kabat and Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré (In press), Land use/land cover changes and climate: Modeling analysis and observational evidence, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. doi:10.1002/wcc.144

Robinson, F. J., S. C. Sherwood, D. Gerstle, C. Liu, et al. (In Press), Exploring the land-ocean contrast in convective vigor using islands, Journal of Atmospheric Science.

Santoso, A., W. Cai, M. H. England, and S. J. Phipps (Appeared Online), The role of the Indonesian Throughflow on ENSO dynamics in a coupled climate model., Journal of Climate.

Ummenhofer, C. C., A. Sen Gupta, P. Briggs, M. H. England, et al. (In press), Indian and Pacific Ocean influences on Southeast Australian drought and soil moisture, Journal of Climate.

Zhang, Q., Wang, Y. P., Pitman, A.J., Dai, Y.J. (In press), Limitations of nitrogen and phosphorous on the terrestrial carbon uptake in the 20th century, Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2011GL049244

2011

Alexander, L. (2011), Extreme heat rooted in dry soils, Nature Geoscience, 4(1), 12-13 doi:10.1038/ngeo1045.

Collins, D., A. Sen Gupta, S. Power, K. Braganza, J. N. Brown, J. R. Brown, W. Cai, J. Church, R. Colman, A, Dowdy, P. Durack, D. Jones, M. Kuchinke, Y. Kuleshov, A. Lorrey, C. Lucas, S. McGree, K. McInnes, A. Moise, L. Muir, B. Murphy, S. J. Phipps, I. Smith, B. Tilbrook and N. White (2011), Observed Climate Variability and Trends, Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research. Volume 1: Regional Overview, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Chapter 3, 51-77. http://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/PCCSP/publications.html

Hill, K. J., A. S. Taschetto, and M. H. England (2011), Sensitivity of South American summer rainfall to tropical Pacific Ocean SST anomalies, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L01701. doi:10.1029/2010GL045571

Mao, J., Phipps, S. J., Pitman, A. J., Wang, Y. P., Abramowitz, G., and Pak, B. (2011), The CSIRO Mk3L climate system model v1.0 coupled to the CABLE land surface scheme v1.4b: evaluation of the control climatology, Geoscientific Model Development, 4, 1115-1131. doi:10.5194/gmd-4-1115-2011, 2011

2010

Alexander, L. V., P. Uotila, N. Nicholls, and A. Lynch (2010), A new daily pressure dataset for Australia and its application to the assessment of changes in synoptic patterns during the last century, Journal of Climate, 23(5), 1111-1126.

Allen, R. J., and S. C. Sherwood (2010), Aerosol-cloud semi-direct effect and land-sea temperature contrast in a GCM, Geophysical Research Letters, 37.

Arndt, D. S., M. O. Baringer, M. R. Johnson, L. V. Alexander, et al. (2010), State of the Climate in 2009, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91(7), S1-S218.

Arzel, O., A. C. de Verdière, and M. H. England (2010), The role of oceanic heat transport and wind stress forcing in abrupt millennial-scale climate transitions, Journal of Climate, 23, 2233-2256.

Chae, J. H., and S. C. Sherwood (2010), Insights into cloud-top height and dynamics from seasonal cycle of cloud-top heights observed by MISR in the west Pacific region, Journal of the Atmospheric Science, 67.

Cruz, F. T., A. J. Pitman, and J. McGregor (2010), Probabilistic simulations of the impact of increasing leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide on the global land surface, Climate Dynamics, 34, 361-379.

Cruz, F. T., A. J. Pitman, J. McGregor, and J. P. Evans (2010), Contrasting regional responses to increasing leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide over Australia, Journal of Hyrometeorology, 11(2), 296-314.

Cruz, F. T., A. J. Pitman, and Y.-P. Wang (2010), Can the stomatal response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide explain the unusual temperatures during the 2002 Murray-Darling Basin drought?, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115.

d'Orgeville, M., W. P. Sijp, M. H. England, and K. J. Meissner (2010), On the control of glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO₂ variations by the Southern Hemisphere westerlies, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L21703.

Green, D. L., L. V. Alexander, K. McInnes, J. Church, et al. (2010), An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation for the Torres Strait Islands, Australia, Climatic Change, 102(3-4), 405-433 http://www.springerlink.com/content/0165-0009/102/3-4/

Luffman, J. J., A. S. Taschetto, and M. H. England (2010), Global and regional climate response to late twentieth-century warming over the Indian Ocean, Journal of Climate, 23(7), 1660-1674.

Macadam, I., A. J. Pitman, P. H. Whetton, and G. Abramowitz (2010), Ranking climate models by performance using actual values and anomalies: Implications for climate change impact assessments, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L16704.

Newell, B. R., and A. J. Pitman (2010), The psychology of global warming: improving the fit between the science and the message, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 1003-1014.

Nicholls, N., P. Uotila, and L. V. Alexander (2010), Synoptic influences on seasonal, interannual and decadal temperature variations in Melbourne, Australia, International Journal of Climatology, 30, 1372-1381.

Rangan, H., C. Kull, and L. V. Alexander (2010), Forest plantations, water availability and regional climate change: controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palnis Hills, southern India, Regional Environmental Change, 10(2), 103-117.

Roubicek, A. J., J. VanDerWal, L. J. Beaumont, A. J. Pitman, et al. (2010), Does the choice of climate baseline matter in ecological niche modelling?, Ecological Modelling, 221(19), 2280-2286.

Santoso, A., A. R. Sen Gupta, and M. H. England (2010), Genesis of Indian Ocean mixed layer temperature anomalies: a heat budget analysis, Journal of Climate, 23(20), 5375-5403.

Sherwood, S. C. (2010), Direct versus indirect effects of tropospheric humidity changes on the hydrologic cycle, Environmental Research Letters, 5.

Sherwood, S. C., and M. Huber (2010), An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 9552-9555.

Sherwood, S. C., W. Ingram, Y. Tsushima, M. Satoh, et al. (2010), Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115.

Sherwood, S. C., R. Roca, T. M. Weckworth, and N. Andronova (2010), Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate, Reviews of Geophysics, 48.

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