Australian Research Council's (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science

The 2014 ARCCSS Winter School will focus on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, with lectures and labs covering fundamental fluid processes that are important in the atmosphere and ocean. This primer is designed to ensure that participants have sufficient background knowledge of fluid mechanics. Lecturers will take the equations derived here as assumed knowledge …

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Mathew Lipson PhD Student University of New South Wales Email: Supervisors: Dr Melissa Hart, Dr Marcus Thatcher, Prof Andy Pitman   Thesis Title Urban climate model development for Australian conditions Biography Mat has a background in architecture and physics, and is interested in how forms of urbanisation affect the local climate. His PhD …

Dr Nerilie Abram Associate Investigator Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University Phone: Email:     BSc (Advanced) with Honours, University of Sydney (2000) PhD, Earth Sciences, Australian National University (2004)     Biography Nerilie Abram uses palaeoclimate records to study how Earth’s climate has behaved in the …

Duncan Ackerley Research Fellow Monash University Email: Researcher ID: A-8052-2013     Biography I am going to use the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) to investigate the representation of climate variability and climate change with a view to developing a low-resolution of ACCESS that is useful for multi-millennial …

Mandy Freund PhD Student The University of Melbourne Email: Supervisors: David Karoly   Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Meteorology (Freie Universität Berlin)   Thesis Title Comparison of climate model simulations with Australasian paleoclimate data covering the last 1000 years Biography Mandy’s research uses high-resolution palaeoclimate archives to reconstruct …

Maxime Colin PhD Student CCRC Matthews Building, UNSW Phone: Email: Supervisors: Steve Sherwood, Jason Evans, Sandrine Bony     Thesis Title Representing tropical deep convection in global climate models: focus on the behaviour of slippery thermals and the importance of convective memory. Biography Maxime started his PhD at UNSW in 2014. Using numerical …

Dr Claire Vincent Research Associate School of Earth Sciences University of Melbourne Email:     B.Sc. University of Melbourne B.Eng. (hons) University of Melbourne Grad. Dip. Meteorology Australian Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre PhD (Mesoscale Wind Fluctuations over Danish Waters) Technical University of Denmark   Thesis Title Mesoscale Wind Fluctuations …

What media relate to your work The newspapers are not your rival When do you contact the media How the Media Manager will assist ARCCSS Tips for the interview     If your job benefits the media.   Research found that citation rates would rise by 70% in the first …

Ocean colour image, courtesy of NASA. Winter School 2015 attendees- For supplementary material including the schedule, a Winter School welcome pack, recommended prior reading, presentation slides and lab instructions, click here. Note- this page will be continuously updated up to, during, and after the Winter School week so be sure to keep …