Alumni

Former Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

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

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

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

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

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

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

Graduated PhD students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Ghisolfi
Oceanic fronts off the southern Brazilian coast.

Jinbao Song
Breaking of surface gravity waves.

Chris Aiken
Stochastic forcing of nonnormal coastal flows.

Gary Brassington
High order methods for computational geophysical fluid dynamics.

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

Helen Reid
Modelling coastally trapped wind surges over southeastern Australia.

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

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

Graduated Honours students

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Agus Santoso
Circulation in Jervis Bay driven by atmospheric cooling.

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

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