By Dr Doug Richardson

Journal articles

Richardson D; Hobeichi S; Pitman AJ, 2026, 'Limited influence of climate modes of variability on residual load in Australia's electricity grid', Environmental Research Energy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ae8e7d

Richardson D; McConnell D; Pitman AJ; Hobeichi S, 2026, 'Wind power growth drives winter risk and supply-dominated variability in Australia’s energy system', Environmental Research Climate, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ae5dfc

Richardson D; Ribeiro AFS; Batibeniz F; Quilcaille Y; Taschetto AS; Pitman AJ; Zscheischler J, 2025, 'Increasing Fire Weather Season Overlap Between North America and Australia Challenges Firefighting Cooperation', Earth S Future, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005030

Reid KJ; Barnes MA; Gillett ZE; Parker T; Udy DG; Ayat H; Boschat G; Bowden A; Grosfeld NH; King AD; Richardson D; Shao Y; Teckentrup L; Trewin B; Hope P; Zhou L; Borowiak AR; Holgate CM; Isphording RN, 2025, 'A Multiscale Evaluation of the Wet 2022 in Eastern Australia', Journal of Climate, 38, pp. 909 - 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0224.1

Richardson D; Hobeichi S; Sweet LB; Rey-Costa E; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ, 2025, 'Predicting Australian energy demand variability using weather data and machine learning', Environmental Research Letters, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9b3b

Hobeichi S; Abramowitz G; Sen Gupta A; Taschetto AS; Richardson D; Rampal N; Ayat H; Alexander LV; Pitman AJ, 2024, 'How well do climate modes explain precipitation variability?', Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00853-5

Tozer CR; Risbey JS; Pook MJ; Monselesan DP; Irving DB; Ramesh N; Richardson D, 2024, 'A Tale of Two Novembers: Confounding Influences on La Niña’s Relationship with Rainfall in Australia', Monthly Weather Review, 152, pp. 1977 - 1996, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0112.1

Richardson D; Pitman AJ; Ridder NN, 2023, 'Climate influence on compound solar and wind droughts in Australia', Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00507-y

Risbey JS; Irving DB; Squire DT; Matear RJ; Monselesan DP; Pook MJ; Ramesh N; Richardson D; Tozer CR, 2023, 'A large ensemble illustration of how record-shattering heat records can endure', Environmental Research Climate, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/acd714

Richardson D; Kath J; Byrareddy VM; Monselesan DP; Risbey JS; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2023, 'Synchronous climate hazards pose an increasing challenge to global coffee production', Plos Climate, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000134

Richardson D; Black AS; Irving D; Matear RJ; Monselesan DP; Risbey JS; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2022, 'Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought', Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00248-4

Black AS; Monselesan DP; Risbey JS; Sloyan BM; Chapman CC; Hannachi A; Richardson D; Squire DT; Tozer CR; Trendafilov N, 2022, 'Archetypal Analysis of Geophysical Data Illustrated by Sea Surface Temperature', Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/aies-d-21-0007.1

Risbey JS; Squire DT; Pacchetti MB; Black AS; Chapman CC; Dessai S; Irving DB; Matear RJ; Monselesan DP; Moore TS; Richardson D; Sloyan BM; Tozer CR, 2022, 'Common Issues in Verification of Climate Forecasts and Projections', Climate, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli10060083

Allen K; Stewart SB; Tozer C; Richardson D; Nitschke C; Risbey J; Dowdy A; Brookhouse M; Fox-Hughes P; Peterson M; Baker PJ, 2022, 'Reconstructing seasonal fire danger in southeastern Australia using tree rings', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, pp. 559 - 571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF21072

Richardson D; Black AS; Monselesan DP; Risbey JS; Squire DT; Tozer CR; Canadell JG, 2021, 'Increased extreme fire weather occurrence in southeast Australia and related atmospheric drivers', Weather and Climate Extremes, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100397

Squire DT; Richardson D; Risbey JS; Black AS; Kitsios V; Matear RJ; Monselesan D; Moore TS; Tozer CR, 2021, 'Likelihood of unprecedented drought and fire weather during Australia’s 2019 megafires', Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00220-8

Risbey JS; Squire DT; Black AS; DelSole T; Lepore C; Matear RJ; Monselesan DP; Moore TS; Richardson D; Schepen A; Tippett MK; Tozer CR, 2021, 'Standard assessments of climate forecast skill can be misleading', Nature Communications, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23771-z

O'Kane TJ; Sandery PA; Kitsios V; Sakov P; Chamberlain MA; Squire DT; Collier MA; Chapman CC; Fiedler R; Harries D; Moore TS; Richardson D; Risbey JS; Schroeter BJE; Schroeter S; Sloyan BM; Tozer C; Watterson IG; Black A; Quinn C; Matear RJ, 2021, 'CAFE60v1: A 60-year large ensemble climate reanalysis. Part II: Evaluation', Journal of Climate, 34, pp. 5171 - 5194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0518.1

Risbey JS; Monselesan DP; Black AS; Moore TS; Richardson D; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2021, 'The identification of long-lived southern hemisphere flow events using archetypes and principal components', Monthly Weather Review, 149, pp. 1987 - 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0314.1

Richardson D; Black AS; Monselesan DP; Moore TS; Risbey JS; Schepen A; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2021, 'Identifying periods of forecast model confidence for improved subseasonal prediction of precipitation', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, pp. 371 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0054.1

Black AS; Risbey JS; Chapman CC; Monselesan DP; Moore TS; Pook MJ; Richardson D; Sloyan BM; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2021, 'Australian northwest cloudbands and their relationship to atmospheric rivers and precipitation', Monthly Weather Review, 149, pp. 1125 - 1139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0308.1

Richardson D; Neal R; Dankers R; Mylne K; Cowling R; Clements H; Millard J, 2020, 'Linking weather patterns to regional extreme precipitation for highlighting potential flood events in medium- to long-range forecasts', Meteorological Applications, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/met.1931

Richardson D; Fowler HJ; Kilsby CG; Neal R; Dankers R, 2020, 'Improving sub-seasonal forecast skill of meteorological drought: A weather pattern approach', Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20, pp. 107 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-107-2020

Tozer CR; Risbey JS; Grose MR; Monselesan DP; Squire DT; Black AS; Richardson D; Sparrow SN; Li S; Wallom D, 2020, 'A 1-day extreme rainfall event in Tasmania: Process evaluation and long tail attribution', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101, pp. S123 - S128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0219.1

Richardson D, 2019, 'Authors' response to RC2', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-221-ac2

Richardson D; Kilsby CG; Fowler HJ; Bárdossy A, 2019, 'Weekly to multi-month persistence in sets of daily weather patterns over Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean', International Journal of Climatology, 39, pp. 2041 - 2056, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5932

Richardson D; Fowler HJ; Kilsby CG; Neal R, 2018, 'A new precipitation and drought climatology based on weather patterns', International Journal of Climatology, 38, pp. 630 - 648, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5199

Davidson P, 2015, 'Author's response.', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52, pp. 503

Preprints

Monselesan DP; Risbey JS; Legresy B; Cravatte S; Pagli B; Izumo T; Chapman CC; Freund M; Hannachi A; Irving D; Reddy PJ; Richardson D; Squire DT; Tozer CR, 2024, On the archetypal `flavours', indices and teleconnections of ENSO revealed by global sea surface temperatures, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2406.08694

Richardson D; Pitman A; Ridder N, Climate controls on compound solar and wind droughts in Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/x5w09w

Hobeichi S; Abramowitz G; Gupta AS; Taschetto A; Richardson D; Rampal N; Ayat H; Alexander L; Pitman A, How well do climate modes explain precipitationvariability?, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4867098/v1

Richardson D; Fowler HJ; Kilsby CG; Neal R; Dankers R, Improving sub-seasonal forecast skill of meteorological drought: a weather pattern approach, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-221

Other

Ribeiro AFS; Richardson D; Quilcaille Y; Batibeniz F; Pitman A; Zscheischler J, 2025, Overlapping US-Australia fire seasons reduce the window of opportunity for firefighting cooperation, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8126

Richardson D, 2025, The risk to global coffee supply from synchronous climate hazards, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13620

Richardson D, 2023, Climate modes and synoptic patterns associated with widespread wind and solar lows in Australia, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ems2023-187

Richardson D; Risbey J; Monselesan D, 2020, Identifying periods of forecast model confidence for improved subseasonal prediction of precipitation in southern Australia, Copernicus Publications, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1981

Richardson D; Fowler HJ; Kilsby CG; Neal R; Dankers R, 2019, Supplementary material to "Improving sub-seasonal forecast skill of meteorological drought: a weather pattern approach", http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-221-supplement

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