Atmosphere and Climate
Our Research
Atmosphere and Climate focuses on three research themes, which covers boundary layers, climate change, clouds, convection, aerosols (including cloud seeding), mesoscale meteorology, numerical modelling, tropical meteorology, and bushfires and fire weather.
Monash University is also part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes as well as The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century.
Weather and Climate
- High Impact Weather and Climate
- Clouds and Convection
- Weather and Climate Modelling
- Dynamical Meteorology
- Fire and Fire Weather
- Large-Scale Climate Variability and Change
- Urban and Applied Climatology
- Palaeoclimatology
Oceans
Academic and Research Staff
Professor Julie Arblaster: Climate extremes, decadal variability and the role of the Antarctic ozone hole in shifting storm tracks
Associate Professor Dietmar Dommenget: Climate science and Tropical Meteorology
Dr Ailie Gallant: Climate Variability and Change in the Australasian and Antarctic Regions
Professor Christian Jakob: Effects of tropical convection on Australia's climate - how clouds affect weather
Dr Richard Jones: Glaciology, Geochronology, Geomorphology. Past behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets
Professor Andrew Mackintosh: Interactions between Glaciers, Ice Sheets and the Climate System
Dr Felicity McCormack: Antarctica, Ice Sheet modelling and dynamics
Associate Professor Shayne McGregor: Theory, Observations and Modelling, understanding climate variability and change
Professor Neville Nicholls: Nature, Causes and Predictability of Climate and Weather Variations
Dr Tess Parker: Extreme weather, Rossby Waves, Atmospheric blocking and Geophysical fluid dynamics
Dr Andrew Prata: Earth observations, Clouds and precipitation processes, Volcano-atmosphere interactions
Dr Ariaan Purich : Southern Ocean and Antarctic atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions, Australian climate drivers.
Professor Michael Reeder: Dynamical and Tropical Meteorology / Numerical modelling
Associate Professor Ruth Reef: Plant Biogeographer and Ecophysiologist, interested in the effects of climate change on coastal and marine ecosystems
Professor Steven Siems: Climate science, Micrometeorology and Numerical modelling
Dr Martin Singh: Tropical climate and climate change, Convection
Professor Nigel Tapper: Climate Science Micrometeorology
Dr Peter van Rensch: Climate variability, Rainfall, ENSO, Climate change