By Professor Andy Pitman

Journal articles

Zhang Q; Pitman AJ; Wang YP; Dai YJ; Lawrence PJ, 2013, 'The impact of nitrogen and phosphorous limitation on the estimated terrestrial carbon balance and warming of land use change over the last 156 yr', Earth System Dynamics, 4, pp. 333 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-4-333-2013

Clarke H; Evans JP; Pitman AJ, 2013, 'Fire weather simulation skill by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over south-east Australia from 1985 to 2009', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22, pp. 739 - 756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF12048

Decker M; Pitman AJ; Evans J, 2013, 'Applying Scaled Vegetation Greenness Metrics to Constrain Simulated Transpiration Anomalies: A Study over Australia*', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, pp. 1607 - 1623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-13-070.1

Exbrayat J-F; Pitman AJ; Zhang Q; Abramowitz G; Wang Y-P, 2013, 'Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-10-10229-2013

Exbrayat JF; Pitman A; Zhang Q; Abramowitz G; Wang YP, 2013, 'Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation', Biogeosciences, 10, pp. 7095 - 7108, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-7095-2013

Decker M; Pitman AJ; Evans JP, 2013, 'Groundwater constraints on simulated transpiration variability over southeastern Australian forests', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, pp. 543 - 559

Exbrayat JF; Pitman AJ; Abramowitz G; Wang YP, 2013, 'Sensitivity of net ecosystem exchange and heterotrophic respiration to parameterization uncertainty', Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 118, pp. 1640 - 1651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018122

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Sisson SA, 2013, 'Systematic differences in future 20-year temperature extremes in AR4 model projections over Australia as a function of model skill', International Journal of Climatology, 33, pp. 1153 - 1167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3500

Pitman A; de Noblet-Ducoudré N, 2012, 'Human Effects on Climate Through Land-Use-Induced Land-Cover Change', , pp. 77 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-386917-3.00004-X

Boisier J-P; De N-D; Pitman AJ; Cruz FT; Delire C; van DH; van DM; Muller C; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Attributing the impacts of land-cover changes in temperate regions on surface temperature and heat fluxes to specific causes: Results from the first LUCID set of simulations', Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, pp. Article number D12116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017106

Avila FB; Pitman AJ; Donat MG; Alexander LV; Abramowitz G, 2012, 'Climate model simulated changes in temperature extremes due to land cover change', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, pp. 4621 - 4640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016382

De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Boisier J-P; Pitman AJ; Bonan GB; Brovkin V; Cruz FT; Delire C; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk BJ; Lawrence PJ; Van Der Molen MK; Muller C; Reick CH; Strengers BJ; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Determining robust impacts of land-use-induced land cover changes on surface climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the first set of LUCID experiments', Journal of Climate, 25, pp. 3261 - 3281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00338.1

Pitman AJ; De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Avila F; Alexander LV; Boisier J-P; Brovkin V; Delire C; Cruz FT; Donat MG; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk BJ; Reick CH; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Effects of land cover change on temperature and rainfall extremes in multi-model ensemble simulations', Earth System Dynamics, 3, pp. 213 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-3-213-2012

Yearley S; Mercer D; Pitman A; Oreskes N; Conway E, 2012, 'Perspectives on global warming', Metascience, 21, pp. 531 - 559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9639-9

Pitman AJ; Arneth A; Ganzeveld L, 2012, 'Regionalizing global climate models', International Journal of Climatology, 32, pp. 321 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2279

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2012, 'Reply to "Comments on 'Global Regional Comparison of Daily 2-m and 1000-hPa Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Three Global Reanalyses'"', Journal of Climate, 25, pp. 8007 - 8008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00216.1

Pielke RA; Pitman A; Niyogi D; Mahmood R; McAlpine C; Hossain F; Goldewijk KK; Nair U; Betts R; Fall S; Reichstein M; Kabat P; de Noblet N, 2011, 'Land use/land cover changes and climate: Modeling analysis and observational evidence', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 2, pp. 828 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.144

Van Den Hurk B; Best M; Dirmeyer PA; Pitman AJ; Polcher J; Santanello J, 2011, 'Acceleration of land surface model development over a decade of GLASS', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, pp. 1593 - 1600, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00007.1

Johnson FM; Westra S; Sharma A; Pitman AJ, 2011, 'An Assessment of GCM Skill in Simulating Persistence across Multiple Time Scales', Journal of Climate, 24, pp. 3609 - 3623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI3732.1

Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Cruz FT, 2011, 'Coupled atmospheric and land surface dynamics over southeast Australia: a review, analysis and identification of future research priorities', International Journal of Climatology, 31, pp. 1758 - 1772, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2206

Mao J; Pitman AJ; Phipps SJ; Abramowitz G; Wang Y, 2011, 'Global and regional coupled climate sensitivity to the parameterization of rainfall interception', Climate Dynamics, 37, pp. 171 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-010-0862-7

Beaumont LJ; Pitman AJ; Perkins SE; Zimmerman NE; Yoccoz NG; Thuiller W, 2011, 'Impacts of climate change on the world's most exceptional ecoregions', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, pp. 2306 - 2311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1007217108

Pitman AJ; Avila F; Abramowitz G; Wang Y; Phipps SJ; De Noblet-Ducoudre N, 2011, 'Importance of background climate in determining impact of land-cover change on regional climate', Nature Climate Change, 1, pp. 472 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1294

Ashe B; McAneney J; Pitman AJ, 2011, 'Is the allocation of resources towards mitigation and response to fire in Australia optimal?', Journal of Risk Research, 14, pp. 381 - 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2010.541561

Zhang Q; Wang YP; Pitman AJ; Dai YJ, 2011, 'Limitations of nitrogen and phosphorus on the terrestrial carbon uptake in the 20th century', Geophysical Research Letters, 38, pp. L22701, http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL049244.shtml

Clarke H; Smith PL; Pitman AJ, 2011, 'Regional signatures of future fire weather over eastern Australia from global climate models', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 20, pp. 550 - 562, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF10070

Mao J; Phipps SJ; Pitman AJ; Wang Y; Abramowitz G; Pak B, 2011, 'The CSIRO Mk3L climate system model v1.0 coupled to the CABLE land surface scheme v1.4b: Evaluation of the control climatology', Geoscientific Model Development, 4, pp. 1115 - 1131, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-4-1115-2011

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; Wang Y-P, 2010, 'Can the stomatal response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide explain the unusual temperatures during the 2002 Murray-Darling Basin drought?', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. D02101.1 - D02101.2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012767

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; Mcgregor JL; Evans JP, 2010, 'Contrasting Regional Responses to Increasing Leaf-Level Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide over Australia', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 11, pp. 296 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JHM1175.1

Roubicek A; Vanderwai J; Beaumont L; Pitman AJ; Wilson P; Hughes L, 2010, 'Does the choice of climate baseline matter in ecological niche modelling?', Ecological Modelling, 221, pp. 2280 - 2286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.06.021

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; McGregor JL, 2010, 'Probabilistic simulations of the impact of increasing leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide on the global land surface', Climate Dynamics, 34, pp. 361 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-008-0497-0

Macadam I; Pitman AJ; Whetton P; Abramowitz G, 2010, 'Ranking climate models by performance using actual values and anomalies: Implications for climate change impact assessments', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, pp. L16704, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL043877

Newell BR; Pitman AJ, 2010, 'The psychology of global warming: Improving the fit between the science and the message', State of the Climate, 91, pp. 1003 - 1014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS2957.1

McAneney J; Chen K; Pitman AJ, 2009, '100-years of Australian bushfire property losses: Is the risk significant and is it increasing?', Journal of Environmental Management, 90, pp. 2819 - 2822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.03.013

England MH; Sen Gupta AR; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Constraining future greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative target', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 16539 - 16540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0908197106

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Do weak AR4 models bias projections of future climate changes over Australia?', Climatic Change, 93, pp. 527 - 558

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2009, 'Global and regional comparison of daily 2-m and 1000-hPa maximum and minimum temperatures in three global reanalyses', Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 4667 - 4681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2799.1

Moles AT; Warton DI; Warman L; Swenson N; Laffan SW; Zanne A; Pitman AJ; Hemmings F; Leishman M, 2009, 'Global patterns in plant height', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 923 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01526.x

Findell K; Pitman AJ; England MH; Pegion P, 2009, 'Regional and global impacts of land cover change and sea surface temperature anomalies', Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 3248 - 3269

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Sisson SA, 2009, 'Smaller projected increases in 20-year temperature returns over Australia in skill-selected climate models', Geophysical Research Letters, 36, pp. L06710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL037293

Ashe B; McAneney K; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Total cost of fire in Australia', Journal of Risk Research, 12, pp. 121 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669870802648528

Pitman AJ; De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Cruz FT; Davin E; Bonan G; Brovkin V; Claussen M; Delire C; Ganzeveld L; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk B; Lawrence P; Van Der Molen M; Muller C; Reick C; Seneviratne S; Strengen B; Voldoire A, 2009, 'Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study', Geophysical Research Letters, 36, pp. L14814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL039076

Maxino CC; McAvaney BJ; Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2008, 'Erratum: Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray-Darling Basin using stimulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation (International Journal of Climatology (2007) (10.1002/joc.1612))', International Journal of Climatology, 28, pp. 983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1653

Abramowitz G; Leuning R; Clark M; Pitman AJ, 2008, 'Evaluating the performance of land surface models', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 5468 - 5481

Pitman AJ; Tong SJ; FitzGerald G; Nicholls N; Selvey L, 2008, 'Global climate change:time to mainstream health risks and their prevention on the medical research and policy agenda.', Internal Medicine Journal, 38 (6a), pp. 445 - 447

Moles AT; Pitman AJ; Wright IJ; Murray BR; Westoby M, 2008, 'Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?', Ecography, 32, pp. 78 - 82

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2008, 'Regional Projections of Future Seasonal and Annual Changes in Rainfall and Temperature over Australia Based on Skill-Selected AR4 Models', Earth Interactions, 12, pp. 1 - 50

Beaumont LJ; Hughes L; Pitman AJ, 2008, 'Why is the choice of future climate scenarios for species distribution modelling important?', Ecology Letters, 11, pp. 1135 - 1146

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Holbrook NJ; McAneney J, 2007, 'Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia', International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 7, pp. 275 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGENVI.2007.016108

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2007, 'Climate Change Science: Status, and Next Steps in the Projection of Future changes', Environmental Health, 7, pp. 22 - 42

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