Dr. Martin Singh - Honours Projects

Field of study: Atmospheric science

Support offered: Possible scholarship of up to $7.5k through the Centre of Excellence for Weather in the 21st Century

The most intense thunderstorms on Earth are found in the tropics. Will their strength change with climate change? And how much to the storms themselves influence the climate as a whole? In this project we will use a relatively new method to investigate the two-way interaction of thunderstorms and their environment in observations and in climate models. The results will tell us about the ways in which clouds eject moisture into the environment, and how that influences subsequent cloud development.

Supervisor: Martin Singh

Field of study: Atmospheric science

Support offered: Possible scholarship of up to $7.5k through the Centre of Excellence for Weather in the 21st Century

The future of the Australian monsoon and the Hadley Cell within which it is embedded remains uncertain. Climate model projections disagree on how the monsoon will change under warming—some say it will get stronger, some say it will get weaker. In this project we will focus on the Hadley Circulation, the large-scale global circulation of which the monsoons are one component. We will apply theories of the Hadley Cell based on the momentum and energy budgets to diagnose why different models predict different future changes in Hadley Cell strength. This diagnosis will provide a starting point to better constrain future changes in the Hadley Cell (and the Australian monsoon) under global warming.