CCRC Team: Co-Directors

Professor Matthew England
ARC Federation Fellow
Co-Director, Climate Change Research Centre
Matthew explores global-scale ocean circulation and the influence it has on regional climate, large-scale physical oceanography, ocean modelling, and climate processes, with a particular focus on the Southern Hemisphere. Using ocean and coupled climate models in combination with observations, he studies what controls ocean currents and how these currents affect climate and climate variability on time-scales of seasons to centuries.

Applications of this work include:

the circulation and variability of the Southern Ocean and its role in regional climate pattern;
global-scale water-mass formation: mechanisms, variability and stability;
the oceans thermohaline circulation, stability, and feedback to the atmosphere;
the Southern Annular Mode and Australian rainfall variability; and
past ocean circulation states and paleoclimate modelling.

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Professor Andy Pitman
Convenor, ARC Network for Earth System Sciences
Co-Director, Climate Change Research Centre

Andy is a climate modeller with a major focus on land surface processes. Recently, he has been working on coupled carbon modules for climate models including dynamic vegetation how vegetation responds to increasing carbon dioxide and how uncertain our projections of the future might be given instability in terrestrial carbon storage. He has also explored the global and regional impacts of land cover change. He has interests in climate extremes and how these are likely to change in the future. Andy co-chairs the Project for the Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes, he is chair of GLASS, a lead author in the IPCC, a member of National Committee for Earth System Science, convenor of the ARC Research Network for Earth System Science and co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW.

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