Alumni

Former Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Dr. Chris Aiken
Variability and stability in Southern Ocean circulation and sea-ice.

Dr. Elena Goloubeva
Global-scale ocean simulations in z-coordinate and sigma-coordinate models.

Dr Alan Griffiths
Modelling the wake of steep hills and buildings in the atmospheric boundary layer.

Dr. Fei Huang
North Pacific atmospheric blocking; Indonesian throughflow variability.

Dr Julien Le Sommer
Estimating equatorial inertia-gravity wave activity in the stratosphere with ERA40 reanalysis. The role of mesoscale turbulence on Antarctic Intermediate water formation.

Dr Yi Liu

Dr Qi Lixin
A climatological study of tropical cyclones in Western Australia.

Dr Xianhong Meng

Dr. Peter Oke
Midlatitude variability in the Southern Ocean and the subpolar westerly winds.

Graduated PhD students

Marvin Alfaro

Chris Aiken
Stochastic forcing of nonnormal coastal flows.

Francia Avila

Jose Henrique Alves
A saturation-dependent dissipation source function for wind-wave modelling applications.

Gary Brassington
High order methods for computational geophysical fluid dynamics.

Jaclyn Brown
The Kinematics and Dynamics of Cross-Hemispheric Flow in the Central and Eastern Equatorial Pacific."

Bruce Buckley
Real-time prediction of significant weather near the Tasman Sea: High resolution numerical weather prediction studies.

Mauro Cirano
Wintertime circulation within the Southeast Indian Ocean: A numerical study.

Faye Cruz
Characterization of the physiological feedbacks to increase in leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide from global to regional scales.

Peter Coutis
Currents, coasts and cays: a study of tidal upwelling and island wakes.

David Ghisolfi
Oceanic fronts off the southern Brazilian coast.

Alex Sen Gupta
Global ocean ventilation and Southern Hemisphere climate variability using observations, oceanic, atmospheric and coupled climate models.

Eunjoo Jung
Numerical simulation of Asian dust events: the impacts of convective transport and wet deposition.

An Li
Computational modelling of sediment entrainment and motion in atmospheric surface layer.

Hua Lu
An integrated wind erosion modelling system with emphasis on dust emission and transport.

Peter Oke
The effects of the East Australian Current on the nearshore zone.

Sarah Perkins
Evaluation and 21st century projections of global climate change models at a regional scale over Australia.

Lixin Qi
Cut-off low pressure systems over southern Australia.

Helen Reid
Modelling coastally trapped wind surges over southeastern Australia.

Moninya Roughan
On the East Australian Current: Upwelling and Separation.

Agus Santoso
Evolution of climate anomalies and variability of Southern Ocean water masses on interannual to centennial time scales.

Eric Schulz
Air-Sea Flux Parametrizations in Shallow Tropical Sea.

Willem Sijp
The effect of the Drake Passage and subgrid-scale eddy parametrization on the global thermohaline circulation.

Jinbao Song
Breaking of surface gravity waves.

Peter Tate
The rise and dilution of buoyant jets and their behaviour in an internal wave field.

Zhou Wang
A numerical model for the study of sediment diagenesis, iron-phosphorus dynamics, and microphytobenthos.

Ann-Marie Wong
Deep convection processes off the coast of Adelie Land, East Antarctica.

Peng Xu
A computational model for the assessment and prediction of salinisation in irrigated areas.

Haixiong Zhuang
Parameterizations of atmosphere-ocean and atmosphere land surface interactions, with an application to the Australian Monsoon.

Graduated Honours students

Michael Bates
The effect of enhanced Antarctic meltwater on global ocean circulation and climate.

Sophie Bestley
Oceanic transport of Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) larvae.

Jaclyn Brown
A study of El-Nino/Southern Oscillation and its dynamical relationship to westerly wind bursts and the Madden Julian Oscillation.

Chris Cairns

Tina Donaldson
Mechanisms controlling the late twentieth century cooling and freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water.

Stephanie Dupre
Latitude shifts in Southern Ocean westerly winds and their impact on past and present climate Liz Smith A box-model study of the global thermohaline circulation.

Ned Haughton

Doug Hazell
Prediction of the fate of radioactive material in the South Pacific Ocean using a global eddy-resolving model.

Khalia Hill
Observational and Model Analysis of Interannual Rainfall Extremes and Air Flow over Tasmania.

Tanya Lippmann

Stephanie Moore
Jervis Bay circulation and its role in determining phytoplankton community structure.

Agus Santoso
Circulation in Jervis Bay driven by atmospheric cooling.

Matthew Ward

Danielle Williams
Variations in the size composition and occurrence of yellowfin tuna (thunnus albacares) in eastern Australian waters.

Lujia Wu
Modelling spectrally-resolved light attenuation in a coupled physical-biological ocean model.

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