By Dr Mathew Jack Lipson

Book Chapters

Nazarian N; Lipson M; Norford LK, 2023, 'Multiscale modeling techniques to document urban climate change', in Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands, Elsevier, pp. 123 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818977-1.00004-1

Hart M; Cooper N; Green D; Lipson M, 2021, 'The Synergistic Impacts of Urban Air Pollution Compounding Our Climate Emergency', in Ren C; McGregor G (ed.), Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities, Springer, pp. 355 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5

Nazarian N; Lipson M, 2021, 'Multi-scale Modeling Techniques to Document Urban Climate Change', in Urban Climate Change and Intra-Urban Climate Variability: Characterizations, Impacts, and Mitigation

Green D, 2020, 'The synergistic impacts of urban air pollution compounding our climate emergency', in Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities

Journal articles

Marchionni V; Szota C; Farrell C; Livesley SJ; Nice KA; Prodanovic V; Thompson S; Cheung PK; Nouri H; Lipson M; Winfrey B, 2026, 'Urban greening and water strategies are key to adapt Australian cities to climate change and urban growth', JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134716

Nazarian N; Lu J; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Liu S; Krayenhoff ES; Blunn L; Martilli A, 2025, 'UrbanTALES: A Large-Eddy Simulation Dataset for Urban Canopy Layer Turbulence and Parameterization', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, pp. E2461 - E2478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0061.1

Su CH; Torrance J; Rennie S; Howard E; Stassen C; Warren R; Smith A; Dharssi I; Pepler A; Tian S; Lipson M; Steinle P; Franklin C; Le T; Wang C; Masoumi S; Le Marshall J, 2025, 'The Australian regional atmospheric reanalysis system, version 2 – BARRA2', Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ES25032

Sharma S; Evans JP; Pitman A; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Lopez-Bravo C, 2025, 'Mapping urban dynamics in Greater Sydney – A scalable multi-decadal local climate zone classification approach', Plos Climate, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000677

Abramowitz G; Ukkola A; Hobeichi S; Page JC; Lipson M; De Kauwe MG; Green S; Brenner C; Frame J; Nearing G; Clark M; Best M; Anthoni P; Arduini G; Boussetta S; Caldararu S; Cho K; Cuntz M; Fairbairn D; Ferguson CR; Kim H; Kim Y; Knauer J; Lawrence D; Luo X; Malyshev S; Nitta T; Ogee J; Oleson K; Ottlé C; Peylin P; de Rosnay P; Rumbold H; Su B; Vuichard N; Walker AP; Wang-Faivre X; Wang Y; Zeng Y, 2024, 'On the predictability of turbulent fluxes from land: PLUMBER2 MIP experimental description and preliminary results', Biogeosciences, 21, pp. 5517 - 5538, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-5517-2024

Langendijk GS; Halenka T; Hoffmann P; Adinolfi M; Aldama Campino A; Asselin O; Bastin S; Bechtel B; Belda M; Bushenkova A; Campanale A; Chun KP; Constantinidou K; Coppola E; Demuzere M; Doan QV; Evans J; Feldmann H; Fernandez J; Fita L; Hadjinicolaou P; Hamdi R; Hundhausen M; Grawe D; Johannsen F; Milovac J; Katragkou E; Kerroumi NEI; Kotlarski S; Le Roy B; Lemonsu A; Lennard C; Lipson M; Mandal S; Muñoz Pabón LE; Pavlidis V; Pietikäinen JP; Raffa M; Raluy-López E; Rechid D; Rui I; Schulz JP; Soares PMM; Takane Y; Teichmann C; Thatcher M; Top S; Van Schaeybroeck B; Wang F; Yuan J, 2024, 'Towards better understanding the urban environment and its interactions with regional climate change - The WCRP CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study URB-RCC', Urban Climate, 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102165

Jongen HJ; Lipson M; Teuling AJ; Grimmond S; Baik JJ; Best M; Demuzere M; Fortuniak K; Huang Y; De Kauwe MG; Li R; McNorton J; Meili N; Oleson K; Park SB; Sun T; Tsiringakis A; Varentsov M; Wang C; Wang ZH; Steeneveld GJ, 2024, 'The Water Balance Representation in Urban-PLUMBER Land Surface Models', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004231

Blunn LP; Ames F; Croad HL; Gainford A; Higgs I; Lipson M; Lo CHB, 2024, 'Machine learning bias correction and downscaling of urban heatwave temperature predictions from kilometre to hectometre scale', Meteorological Applications, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/met.2200

Wu S; Lin X; Bian Z; Lipson M; Lafortezza R; Liu Q; Grimmond S; Velasco E; Christen A; Masson V; Crawford B; Ward HC; Chrysoulakis N; Fortuniak K; Parlow E; Pawlak W; Tapper N; Hong J; Hong JW; Roth M; An J; Lin C; Chen B, 2024, 'Satellite observations reveal a decreasing albedo trend of global cities over the past 35 years', Remote Sensing of Environment, 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114003

Lipson MJ; Grimmond S; Best M; Abramowitz G; Coutts A; Tapper N; Baik JJ; Beyers M; Blunn L; Boussetta S; Bou-Zeid E; De Kauwe MG; de Munck C; Demuzere M; Fatichi S; Fortuniak K; Han BS; Hendry MA; Kikegawa Y; Kondo H; Lee DI; Lee SH; Lemonsu A; Machado T; Manoli G; Martilli A; Masson V; McNorton J; Meili N; Meyer D; Nice KA; Oleson KW; Park SB; Roth M; Schoetter R; Simón-Moral A; Steeneveld GJ; Sun T; Takane Y; Thatcher M; Tsiringakis A; Varentsov M; Wang C; Wang ZH; Pitman AJ, 2024, 'Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150, pp. 126 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.4589

Naserikia M; Hart MA; Nazarian N; Bechtel B; Lipson M; Nice KA, 2023, 'Land surface and air temperature dynamics: The role of urban form and seasonality', The Science of The Total Environment, 905, pp. 167306 - 167306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167306

Ulpiani G; Hart MA; Di Virgilio G; Maharaj AM; Lipson MJ; Potgieter J, 2022, 'A citizen centred urban network for weather and air quality in Australian schools', Scientific Data, 9, pp. 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01205-9

Lipson M; Grimmond S; Best M; Chow WTL; Christen A; Chrysoulakis N; Coutts A; Crawford B; Earl S; Evans J; Fortuniak K; Heusinkveld BG; Hong JW; Hong J; Järvi L; Jo S; Kim YH; Kotthaus S; Lee K; Masson V; McFadden JP; Michels O; Pawlak W; Roth M; Sugawara H; Tapper N; Velasco E; Ward HC, 2022, 'Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites', Earth System Science Data, 14, pp. 5157 - 5178, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5157-2022

Nice KA; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Seneviratne S; Thompson J; Naserikia M; Godic B; Stevenson M, 2022, 'Isolating the impacts of urban form and fabric from geography on urban heat and human thermal comfort', Building and Environment, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109502

Lipson MJ; Nazarian N; Hart MA; Nice KA; Conroy B, 2022, 'A Transformation in City-Descriptive Input Data for Urban Climate Models', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.866398

Ulpiani G; Duhirwe PN; Yun GY; Lipson MJ, 2022, 'Meteorological influence on forecasting urban pollutants: Long-term predictability versus extreme events in a spatially heterogeneous urban ecosystem', Science of the Total Environment, 814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152537

Cooper A; Turney CSM; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to Comment on "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago"', Science New York N Y, 374, pp. eabi9756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abi9756

Cooper A; Turney CSM; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey AM; Heaton TJ; Russell JM; McCracken K; Anet JG; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith JT; Fenwick P; Fogwill CJ; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Ramsey CB; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'Response to comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”', Science, 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abh3655

Potgieter J; Nazarian N; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Ulpiani G; Morrison W; Benjamin K, 2021, 'Combining High-Resolution Land Use Data With Crowdsourced Air Temperature to Investigate Intra-Urban Microclimate', Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, pp. 720323, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.720323

Hirsch AL; Evans JP; Thomas C; Conroy B; Hart MA; Lipson M; Ertler W, 2021, 'Resolving the influence of local flows on urban heat amplification during heatwaves', Environmental Research Letters, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0377

Lipson M; Grimmond S; Best M, 2021, 'Urban-PLUMBER model evaluation project: initial results', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15230

Cooper A; Turney C; Palmer J; Hogg A; McGlone M; Wilmshurst J; Lorrey A; Heaton T; Russell J; McCracken K; Anet J; Rozanov E; Friedel M; Suter I; Peter T; Muscheler R; Adolphi F; Dosseto A; Faith T; Fenwick P; Fogwill C; Hughen K; Lipson M; Liu J; Nowaczyk N; Rainsley E; Bronk Ramsey C; Sebastianelli P; Souilmi Y; Stevenson J; Thomas Z; Tobler R; Zech R, 2021, 'A Global Environmental Crisis 42,000 Years Ago', Science, 371, pp. 811 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8677

Gurieff N; Green D; Koskinen I; Lipson M; Baldry M; Maddocks A; Menictas C; Noack J; Moghtaderi B; Doroodchi E, 2020, 'Healthy power: Reimagining hospitals as sustainable energy hubs', Sustainability Switzerland, 12, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208554

Lipson MJ; Grimmond S; Best MJ; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ; Ward HC, 2020, 'Urban-PLUMBER: A new evaluation and benchmarking project for land surface models in urban areas', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20987

Mallaband B; Lipson M, 2020, 'From health to harmony: Uncovering the range of heating needs in British households', ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101590

Sovacool BK; Martiskainen M; Osborn J; Anaam A; Lipson M, 2020, 'From thermal comfort to conflict: The contested control and usage of domestic smart heating in the United Kingdom', ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101566

Sovacool BK; Osborn J; Martiskainen M; Anaam A; Lipson M, 2020, 'Humanizing heat as a service: Cost, creature comforts and the diversity of smart heating practices in the United Kingdom', ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2020.100012

Sovacool BK; Osborn J; Martiskainen M; Lipson M, 2020, 'Testing smarter control and feedback with users: Time, temperature and space in household heating preferences and practices in a Living Laboratory', GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS, 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102185

Lipson MJ; Thatcher M; Hart MA; Pitman A, 2019, 'Climate change impact on energy demand in building-urban-atmosphere simulations through the 21st century', Environmental Research Letters, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5aa5

Rainsley E; Turney CSM; Golledge NR; Wilmshurst JM; McGlone MS; Hogg AG; Li B; Thomas ZA; Roberts R; Jones RT; Palmer J; Flett V; de Wet G; Hutchinson DK; Lipson MJ; Fenwick P; Hines BR; Binetti U; Fogwill CJ, 2019, 'Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands', Climate of the Past, 15, pp. 423 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-423-2019

Lipson MJ; Thatcher M; Hart MA; Pitman A, 2018, 'A building energy demand and urban land surface model', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144, pp. 1572 - 1590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3317

Wilson KJ; Barthel A; Lipson M; Fogwill C; Turney C, 2018, 'New breeding records of seabirds at carnley harbour (Auckland Islands), cossack rock (Campbell Island) and south coast of the snares', Notornis, 65, pp. 168 - 173, http://www.bluepenguin.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Wilson_etal_Nortornis-65_168-173-New-breeding-records-of-seabirds-subantarctic-islands.pdf

Turney CSM; Palmer J; Maslin MA; Hogg A; Fogwill CJ; Southon J; Fenwick P; Helle G; Wilmshurst JM; McGlone M; Ramsey CB; Thomas ZX; Lipson M; Beaven B; Jones RT; Andrews O; Hua Q, 2018, 'Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965', Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5

Palmer JG; Turney CSM; Fogwill C; School of Biological E; Environmental Sciences UONSW; Fenwick P; Thomas Z; Lipson M; Jones RT; Beavan B; Richardson SJ; Wilmshurst JM, 2018, 'Growth response of an invasive alien species to climate variations on subantarctic Campbell Island', New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 42, pp. 31 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.42.2

Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Thatcher M, 2017, 'Efficiently modelling urban heat storage: An interface conduction scheme in an urban land surface model (aTEB v2.0)', Geoscientific Model Development, 10, pp. 991 - 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-991-2017

Turney CSM; Fogwill CJ; Palmer J; van Sebille E; Thomas Z; McGlone M; Richardson S; Wilmshurst JM; Fenwick P; Zunz V; Goosse H; Wilson K-J; Carter L; Lipson M; Jones RT; Harsch M; Clark G; Marzinelli E; Rogers T; Rainsley E; Ciasto L; Waterman S; Thomas ER; Visbeck M, 2017, 'Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction', Climate of the Past, 13, pp. 231 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-231-2017

Turney CSM; McGlone M; Palmer J; Fogwill C; Hogg A; Thomas ZA; Lipson M; Wilmshurst JM; Fenwick P; Jones RT; Hines B; Clark GF, 2016, 'Intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds 2000-1000 years ago: evidence from the subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (52-50°S)', Journal of Quaternary Science, 31, pp. 12 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2828

Turney CSM; Palmer J; Hogg A; Fogwill CJ; Jones RT; Bronk Ramsey C; Fenwick P; Grierson P; Wilmshurst J; O’Donnell A; Thomas ZA; Lipson M, 2016, 'Multidecadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO2 anomaly', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, pp. 211 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005257

Theses / Dissertations

Lipson M, 2019, Model development for urban climates, UNSW Sydney, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/61474

Preprints

Nazarian N; Pitman AJ; Lipson MJ; Hart MA; Cleugh H; Harman I; Thatcher MJ; Hirsch AL; Di Virgilio G; Riley ML; Tapper N; Evans JP; Jakob C; Perez P, 2025, Strengthening national capability in urban climate science: an Australian perspective, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.03968

Nazarian N; Lu J; Lipson M; Liu S; Hart M; Krayenhoff S; Blunn L; Martilli A, 2025, UrbanTALES: A Comprehensive LES Dataset for Urban Canopy Layer Turbulence Analyses and Parameterization Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/x58x3b

Jongen HJ; Lipson MJ; Teuling AJ; Grimmond S; Best MJ; Steeneveld G-J, 2025, Do Urban-PLUMBER land surface models underestimate surface runoff?, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173610381.18039028/v1

Jongen HJ; Lipson MJ; Teuling AJ; Grimmond S; Baik J-J; Best MJ; Demuzere M; Fortuniak K; Huang Y; Kauwe MGD; Li R; McNorton JR; Meili N; Oleson KW; Park S-B; Sun T; Tsiringakis A; Varentsov M; Wang C; Wang Z; Steeneveld G-J, 2024, The water balance representation in Urban-PLUMBER land surface models, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170688849.94066619/v1

Abramowitz G; Ukkola A; Hobeichi S; Cranko Page J; Lipson M; De Kauwe M; Green S; Brenner C; Frame J; Nearing G; Clark M; Best M; Anthoni P; Arduini G; Boussetta S; Caldararu S; Cho K; Cuntz M; Fairbairn D; Ferguson C; Kim H; Kim Y; Knauer J; Lawrence D; Luo X; Malyshev S; Nitta T; Ogee J; Oleson K; Ottlé C; Peylin P; de Rosnay P; Rumbold H; Su B; Vuichard N; Walker A; Wang-Faivre X; Wang Y; Zeng Y, 2024, On the predictability of turbulent fluxes from land: PLUMBER2 MIP experimental description and preliminary results, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3084

Nice K; Nazarian N; Lipson M; Hart M; Seneviratne S; Thompson J; Naserikia M; Godic B; Stevenson M, 2022, Isolating the impacts of urban form and fabric from geography on urban heat and human thermal comfort, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511203.2

Lipson M; Grimmond S; Best M; Chow W; Christen A; Chrysoulakis N; Coutts A; Crawford B; Earl S; Evans J; Fortuniak K; Heusinkveld BG; Hong J-W; Hong J; Järvi L; Jo S; Kim Y-H; Kotthaus S; Lee K; Masson V; McFadden JP; Michels O; Pawlak W; Roth M; Sugawara H; Tapper N; Velasco E; Ward HC, 2022, Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-65

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