BAMOS
Dec 2017
Jason Evans. Image:
University of New South
Wales.
She is also known for her research studying the Tropospheric
Biennial Oscillation, as well as pioneering work on weather and
climate extremes. Citations to her work exceed 5,500 and her
h-index is 41. Ten of her papers are highly cited, meaning they
are in the top 1% of their academic fields for citations in a year,
and 2 are hot papers, meaning they are in the top 0.1%. Christopher Taylor Award: Callum Stuart
Jason Evans is an Associate Professor in the Climate Change
Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He is one
of the few climate scientists whose work spans the spectrum
from theoretical climate process studies through to policy-
relevant climate change impacts. He has established himself
as a leader in regional climate and water resources through
his leadership roles in elements of the World Climate Research
Programme (WCRP), the peak international body for climate
research. Jason’s work spans hydrology and water resources,
regional climate processes and modelling, and remote sensing
of the Earth system. His key contributions include one of the first
attempts to couple a spatially lumped hydrological model with
a gridded atmosphere model; developing methods to identify
a region’s dominant precipitation triggering mechanisms and
investigate how they might change in the future; pioneering
the use of satellite‐based observations as surface conditions in
regional climate models allowing better quantification of the
land‐atmosphere coupling strength; using coupled land‐fire‐
atmosphere models to identify and understand a mechanism
of atypical fire spread important in large fires; and creating a
method to use a combination of in‐situ climate and remotely
sensed data to identify dryland degradation and desertification
hotspots. His work is highly cited with more than 1675 citations
and a h-index of 21. Jason’s citations are growing rapidly,
increasing by a third during 2016 alone. He has contributed
substantially to AMOS through organising and participating in
AMOS conferences, and also as a member of the AMOS National
Council. Callum Stuart is a meteorologist in the Perth Regional
Forecasting Centre (RFC) of the Bureau of Meteorology. Over
the past few years Callum has contributed to several forecast
projects and developed tools that have had a major impact on
the forecast processes at the RFC. These include:
Opposite: Nicola Maher (left) and Julie Arblaster (right).
Images: Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
and Monash University.
The Christopher Taylor Award is a biennial award open to
professional meteorologists for contributions of all kinds
to operational forecasting and supporting activities in
Australia.
t The Weather Windows project, the goal of which was to
assess the ability to forecast, with very high confidence,
extended periods clear of tropical cyclone activity during
the warm season
t The Panther Map, a real-time viewer combining satellite
imagery, geospatial data, and forecast and observational
alerts for Aviation, Public Weather and Severe Weather
forecasters
t A graphical tool called the Alerts Map to improve
forecasting services by checking observations, forecasts
and warnings for aviation and public weather products;
t An Isentropic Analysis Visual Weather map which can help
forecast thunderstorm activity that could otherwise have
been missed when only using conventional thunderstorm
forecasting techniques.
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