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Journal articles

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

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Holbrook N; McAneney J, 2007, 'Evaluation of the AR4 Climate Models` Simulated Daily Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation over Australia Using Probability Density Functions.', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4356 - 4376

Moles AT; Ackerly D; Tweddle J; Dickie J; Smith R; Leishman M; Mayfield M; Pitman AJ; Wood J; Westoby M, 2007, 'Global patterns in seed size', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, pp. 109 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822x.2006.00259.x

Maxino C; McAvaney BJ; Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2007, 'Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray-Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation.', International Journal of Climatology, pp. 1097 - 1112

Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ; Gupta H; Kowalczyk EA; Wang Y, 2007, 'Systematic Bias in Land Surface Models', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8 (5), pp. 989 - 1001

Pitman AJ; Narisma G; McAneney J, 2007, 'The impact of Climate Change on the risk of forest and grassland fires in Australia.', Climatic Change, pp. 383 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-007-9243-6

Pitman AJ; Hesse P, 2007, 'The significance of large scale land cover change on the Australian palaeomonsoon', Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, pp. 189 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.06.014

Beaumont LJ; Pitman AJ; Hughes L; Poulsen M, 2007, 'Where will species go? Incorporating new advances in climate modelling into projections of species distributions', Global Change Biology, 13, pp. 1368 - 1385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01357.x


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