By Emeritus Professor John Alexander Church

Journal articles

Lyu K; Zhang X; Church JA; Hu J, 2016, 'Evaluation of the interdecadal variability of sea surface temperature and sea level in the Pacific in CMIP3 and CMIP5 models', International Journal of Climatology, 36, pp. 3723 - 3740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4587

Slangen ABA; Church JA; Agosta C; Fettweis X; Marzeion B; Richter K, 2016, 'Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970', Nature Climate Change, 6, pp. 701 - 705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2991

Slangen ABA; Church JA; Agosta C; Fettweis X; Marzeion B; Richter K, 2016, 'Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 (vol 11, pg 1, 2016)', NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE, 6, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000378608900027&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Herraiz-Borreguero L; Church JA; Allison I; Peña-Molino B; Coleman R; Tomczak M; Craven M, 2016, 'Basal melt, seasonal water mass transformation, ocean current variability, and deep convection processes along the Amery Ice Shelf calving front, East Antarctica', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 121, pp. 4946 - 4965, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011858

Albert S; Leon JX; Grinham AR; Church JA; Gibbes BR; Woodroffe CD, 2016, 'Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands', Environmental Research Letters, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054011

Wijffels S; Roemmich D; Monselesan D; Church J; Gilson J, 2016, 'Ocean temperatures chronicle the ongoing warming of Earth', Nature Climate Change, 6, pp. 116 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2924

Carson M; Köhl A; Stammer D; A. Slangen AB; Katsman CA; W. van de Wal RS; Church J; White N, 2016, 'Coastal sea level changes, observed and projected during the 20th and 21st century', Climatic Change, 134, pp. 269 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1520-1

Boyer T; Domingues CM; Good SA; Johnson GC; Lyman JM; Ishii M; Gouretski V; Willis JK; Antonov J; Wijffels S; Church JA; Cowley R; Bindoff NL, 2016, 'Sensitivity of global upper-ocean heat content estimates to mapping methods, XBT bias corrections, and baseline climatologies', Journal of Climate, 29, pp. 4817 - 4842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0801.1

Lago V; Wijffels SE; Durack PJ; Church JA; Bindoff NL; Marsland SJ, 2016, 'Simulating the role of surface forcing on observed multidecadal upper-ocean salinity changes', Journal of Climate, 29, pp. 5575 - 5588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0519.1

Clark PU; Church JA; Gregory JM; Payne AJ, 2015, 'Recent Progress in Understanding and Projecting Regional and Global Mean Sea Level Change', Current Climate Change Reports, 1, pp. 224 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0024-4

Lyu K; Zhang X; Church JA; Hu J, 2015, 'Quantifying internally generated and externally forced climate signals at regional scales in CMIP5 models', Geophysical Research Letters, 42, pp. 9394 - 9403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL065508

McIntosh PC; Church JA; Miles ER; Ridgway K; Spillman CM, 2015, 'Seasonal coastal sea level prediction using a dynamical model', Geophysical Research Letters, 42, pp. 6747 - 6753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL065091

Watson CS; White NJ; Church JA; King MA; Burgette RJ; Legresy B, 2015, 'Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era', Nature Climate Change, 5, pp. 565 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2635

CSIRO ; Church J, 2015, 'BOOK REVIEW. Sea-Level Science: Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-Level Changes', Oceanography, 28, pp. 177 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.24

Monselesan DP; O'Kane TJ; Risbey JS; Church J, 2015, 'Internal climate memory in observations and models', Geophysical Research Letters, 42, pp. 1232 - 1242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062765

Roemmich D; Church J; Gilson J; Monselesan D; Sutton P; Wijffels S, 2015, 'Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006', Nature Climate Change, 5, pp. 240 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2513

McInnes KL; Church J; Monselesan D; Hunter JR; O'Grady JG; Haigh ID; Zhang X, 2015, 'Information for Australian Impact and Adaptation Planning in response to Sea-level Rise', Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal, 65, pp. 127 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.22499/2.6501.009

Slangen ABA; Church JA; Zhang X; Monselesan DP, 2015, 'The sea level response to external forcings in historical simulations of CMIP5 climate models', Journal of Climate, 28, pp. 8521 - 8539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0376.1

Lyu K; Zhang X; Church JA; Slangen ABA; Hu J, 2014, 'Time of emergence for regional sea-level change', Nature Climate Change, 4, pp. 1006 - 1010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2397

Miles ER; Spillman CM; Church JA; McIntosh PC, 2014, 'Seasonal prediction of global sea level anomalies using an ocean–atmosphere dynamical model', Climate Dynamics, 43, pp. 2131 - 2145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-2039-7

Slangen ABA; Church JA; Zhang X; Monselesan D, 2014, 'Detection and attribution of globalmean thermosteric sea level change', Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp. 5951 - 5959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061356

Gregory JM; Church JA; Clark PU; Payne AJ; Merrifield MA; Nerem RS; Nunn PD; Pfeffer WT; Stammer D, 2014, 'Comment on "Expert assessment of sea-level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300", by Horton etal. (2014)', Quaternary Science Reviews, 97, pp. 193 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.024

White NJ; Haigh ID; Church JA; Koen T; Watson CS; Pritchard TR; Watson PJ; Burgette RJ; McInnes KL; You ZJ; Zhang X; Tregoning P, 2014, 'Australian sea levels-Trends, regional variability and influencing factors', Earth Science Reviews, 136, pp. 155 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.05.011

Zhang X; Church JA; Platten SM; Monselesan D, 2014, 'Projection of subtropical gyre circulation and associated sea level changes in the Pacific based on CMIP3 climate models', Climate Dynamics, 43, pp. 131 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1902-x

Abraham JP; Baringer M; Bindoff NL; Boyer T; Cheng LJ; Church JA; Conroy JL; Domingues CM; Fasullo JT; Gilson J; Goni G; Good SA; Gorman JM; Gouretski V; Ishii M; Johnson GC; Kizu S; Lyman JM; Macdonald AM; Minkowycz WJ; Moffitt SE; Palmer MD; Piola AR; Reseghetti F; Schuckmann K; Trenberth KE; Velicogna I; Willis JK, 2013, 'A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change', Reviews of Geophysics, 51, pp. 450 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rog.20022

Church JA; White NJ; Konikow LF; Domingues CM; Graham Cogley J; Rignot E; Gregory JM; Van Den Broeke MR; Monaghan AJ; Velicogna I, 2013, 'Erratum: Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008 (Geophysical Research Letters (2013) 40 (4066) doi:10.1002/grl.50752)', Geophysical Research Letters, 40, pp. 4066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/grl.50752

Burgette RJ; Watson CS; Church JA; White NJ; Tregoning P; Coleman R, 2013, 'Characterizing and minimizing the effects of noise in tide gauge time series: Relative and geocentric sea level rise around Australia', Geophysical Journal International, 194, pp. 719 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt131

Gregory JM; White NJ; Church JA; Bierkens MFP; Box JE; Van Den Broeke MR; Cogley JG; Fettweis X; Hanna E; Huybrechts P; Konikow LF; Leclercq PW; Marzeion B; Oerlemans J; Tamisiea ME; Wada Y; Wake LM; Van De Wal RSW, 2013, 'Twentieth-century global-mean sea level rise: Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?', Journal of Climate, 26, pp. 4476 - 4499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00319.1

Otto A; Otto FEL; Boucher O; Church J; Hegerl G; Forster PM; Gillett NP; Gregory J; Johnson GC; Knutti R; Lewis N; Lohmann U; Marotzke J; Myhre G; Shindell D; Stevens B; Allen MR, 2013, 'Energy budget constraints on climate response', Nature Geoscience, 6, pp. 415 - 416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1836

Gregory JM; Bi D; Collier MA; Dix MR; Hirst AC; Hu A; Huber M; Knutti R; Marsland SJ; Meinshausen M; Rashid HA; Rotstayn LD; Schurer A; Church JA, 2013, 'Climate models without preindustrial volcanic forcing underestimate historical ocean thermal expansion', Geophysical Research Letters, 40, pp. 1600 - 1604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/grl.50339

Church JA; Monselesan D; Gregory JM; Marzeion B, 2013, 'Evaluating the ability of process based models to project sea-level change', Environmental Research Letters, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014051

Hunter JR; Church JA; White NJ; Zhang X, 2013, 'Replyto "discussion of 'Towards a global regionally varying allowance for sea-levelrise' by J.R. Hunter, J.A. Church, N.J. White, X. Zhang [Ocean Engineering 71(1)17-27 (10 ctober 2013)]"', Ocean Engineering, 72, pp. 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2013.03.013

Church JA; White NJ; Domingues CM; Monselesan DP; Miles ER, 2013, 'Sea-level and ocean heat-content change', , 103, pp. 697 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00027-1

Church JA; Clark PU; Cazenave A; Gregory JM; Jevrejeva S; Levermann A; Merrifield MA; Milne GA; Nerem RS; Nunn PD; Payne AJ; Pfeffer WT; Stammer D; Unnikrishnan AS, 2013, 'Sea-level rise by 2100', Science, 342, pp. 1445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.342.6165.1445-a

Hunter JR; Church JA; White NJ; Zhang X, 2013, 'Towards a global regionally varying allowance for sea-level rise', Ocean Engineering, 71, pp. 17 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.12.041

Zhang X; Church JA, 2012, 'Sea level trends, interannual and decadal variability in the Pacific Ocean', Geophysical Research Letters, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053240

Nuccitelli D; Way R; Painting R; Church J; Cook J, 2012, 'Comment on Ocean heat content and Earth's radiation imbalance. II. Relation to climate shifts', Physics Letters Section A General Atomic and Solid State Physics, 376, pp. 3466 - 3468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2012.10.010

Gleckler PJ; Santer BD; Domingues CM; Pierce DW; Barnett TP; Church JA; Taylor KE; Achutarao KM; Boyer TP; Ishii M; Caldwell PM, 2012, 'Human-induced global ocean warming on a multidecadal timescales', Nature Climate Change, 2, pp. 524 - 529, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1553

Willis JK; Church JA, 2012, 'Regional sea-level projection', Science, 336, pp. 550 - 551, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1220366

Lorbacher K; Marsland SJ; Church JA; Griffies SM; Stammer D, 2012, 'Rapid barotropic sea level rise from ice sheet melting', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JC007733

Katsman CA; Sterl A; Beersma JJ; van den Brink HW; Church JA; Hazeleger W; Kopp RE; Kroon D; Kwadijk J; Lammersen R; Lowe J; Oppenheimer M; Plag HP; Ridley J; von Storch H; Vaughan DG; Vellinga P; Vermeersen LLA; van de Wal RSW; Weisse R, 2011, 'Exploring high-end scenarios for local sea level rise to develop flood protection strategies for a low-lying delta-the Netherlands as an example', Climatic Change, 109, pp. 617 - 645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0037-5

Helm KP; Bindoff NL; Church JA, 2011, 'Observed decreases in oxygen content of the global ocean', Geophysical Research Letters, 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GL049513

Church JA; White NJ; Konikow LF; Domingues CM; Cogley JG; Rignot E; Gregory JM; Van Den Broeke MR; Monaghan AJ; Velicogna I, 2011, 'Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008', Geophysical Research Letters, 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048794

Church JA; White NJ, 2011, 'Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century', Surveys in Geophysics, 32, pp. 585 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1

Watson C; White N; Church J; Burgette R; Tregoning P; Coleman R, 2011, 'Absolute calibration in Bass Strait, Australia: TOPEX, Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2', Marine Geodesy, 34, pp. 242 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2011.584834

Church JA; Gregory JM; White NJ; Platten SM; Mitrovica JX, 2011, 'Understanding and projecting Level Change', Oceanography, 24, pp. 130 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2011.33

Helm KP; Bindoff NL; Church JA, 2010, 'Changes in the global hydrological-cycle inferred from ocean salinity', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL044222

Church JA, 2010, 'The changing Oceans', Science, 328, pp. 1453, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1192996

Fukamachi Y; Rintoul SR; Church JA; Aoki S; Sokolov S; Rosenberg MA; Wakatsuchi M, 2010, 'Strong export of Antarctic Bottom Water east of the Kerguelen plateau', Nature Geoscience, 3, pp. 327 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo842

Hemer MA; Wang XL; Church JA; Swail VR, 2010, 'Coordinating global ocean wave climate projections', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, pp. 451 - 454, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009BAMS2951.1

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