By Emeritus Professor John Alexander Church

Journal articles

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

Hemer MA; Church JA; Hunter JR, 2010, 'Variability and trends in the directional wave climate of the Southern Hemisphere', International Journal of Climatology, 30, pp. 475 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1900

Shapiro M; Shukla J; Brunet G; Nobre C; Béland M; Dole R; Trenberth K; Anthes R; Asrar G; Barrie L; Bougeault P; Brasseur G; Burridge D; Busalacchi A; Caughey J; Chen D; Church J; Enomoto T; Hoskins B; Hov Ø; Laing A; Le Treut H; Marotzke J; McBean G; Meehl G; Miller M; Mills B; Mitchell J; Moncrieff M; Nakazawa T; Olafsson H; Palmer T; Parsons D; Rogers D; Simmons A; Troccoli A; Toth Z; Uccellini L; Velden C; Wallace JM, 2010, 'An Earth-system prediction initiative for the twenty-first century', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, pp. 1377 - 1388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS2944.1

Green D; Alexander L; Mcinnes K; Church J; White N, 2010, 'An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation for the Torres Strait Islands, Australia', Climatic Change, 102, pp. 405 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-009-9756-2

Doherty SJ; Bojinski S; Henderson-Sellers A; Noone K; Goodrich D; Bindoff NL; Church JA; Hibbard KA; Karl TR; Kajfez-Bogataj L; Lynch AH; Parker DE; Prentice CL; Ramaswamy V; Saunders RW; Smith MS; Steffen K; Stocker TF; Thorne PW; Trenberth KE; Verstraete MM; Zwiers FW, 2009, 'Lessons learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific developments needed to understand, predict, and respond to climate change', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, pp. 497 - 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008BAMS2643.1

Woodworth PL; White NJ; Jevrejeva S; Holgate SJ; Church JA; Gehrels WR, 2009, 'Evidence for the accelerations of sea level on multi-decade and century timescales', International Journal of Climatology, 29, pp. 777 - 789, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1771

Church J; Domingues C; White N; Wijffels S; Barker P; Gleckler P, 2009, 'Changes in global upper-ocean heat content over the last half century and comparison with climate models', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 6, pp. 032005 - 032005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/3/032005

Valdés L; Peterson W; Church J; Brander K; Marcos M, 2009, 'Our changing oceans: Conclusions of the first international symposium on the wffects of climate change on the world's oceans', ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66, pp. 1435 - 1438, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp134

Church J; White N; Domingues C; Gregory J; Steffen K, 2009, 'Understanding sea level change over the last half century and its implications for the future', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 6, pp. 012007 - 012007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/1/012007

Wijffels SE; Willis J; Domingues CM; Barker P; White NJ; Gronell A; Ridgway K; Church JA, 2008, 'Changing expendable bathythermograph fall rates and their impact on estimates of thermosteric sea level rise', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 5657 - 5672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2290.1

Domingues CM; Church JA; White NJ; Gleckler PJ; Wijffels SE; Barker PM; Dunn JR, 2008, 'Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise', Nature, 453, pp. 1090 - 1093, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07080

Meincke J; Church J, 2008, 'Matthias Tomczak', PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY, 77, pp. 273 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.05.008

Church JA; White NJ; Aarup T; Wilson WS; Woodworth PL; Domingues CM; Hunter JR; Lambeck K, 2008, 'Understanding global sea levels: Past, present and future', Sustainability Science, 3, pp. 9 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-008-0042-4

Church J, 2008, 'Journal club', Nature, 452, pp. 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/452131a

You Y; Ribbe J; Karstensen J; Church J, 2008, 'Matthias Tomczak: A distinguished regional oceanographer and water-mass expert', Progress in Oceanography, 77, pp. 269 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.05.007

Hemer MA; Church JA; Hunter JR, 2007, 'Waves and climate change on the Australian coast', Journal of Coastal Research, pp. 432 - 437

Church J; Aarup T, 2007, 'Sea levels and the coast: Does rising sea level matter?', Hydro International, 11, pp. 31 - 35

Church JA, 2007, 'A change in circulation?', Science, 317, pp. 908 - 909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1147796

Marsland SJ; Church JA; Bindoff NL; Williams GD, 2007, 'Antarctic coastal polynya response to climate change', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005JC003291

Rahmstorf S; Cazenave A; Church JA; Hansen JE; Keeling RF; Parker DE; Somerville RCJ, 2007, 'Recent climate observations compared to projections', Science, 316, pp. 709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1136843

Domingues CM; Maltrud ME; Wijffels SE; Church JA; Tomczak M, 2007, 'Simulated Lagrangian pathways between the Leeuwin Current System and the upper-ocean circulation of the southeast Indian Ocean', Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 54, pp. 797 - 817, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.10.003

Church JA; Hunter JR; McInnes KL; White NJ, 2006, 'Sea-level rise around the Australian coastline and the changing frequency of extreme sea-level events', Australian Meteorological Magazine, 55, pp. 253 - 260

Cai W; Bi D; Church J; Cowan T; Dix M; Rotstayn L, 2006, 'Pan-oceanic response to increasing anthropogenic aerosols: Impacts on the Southern Hemisphere oceanic circulation', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027513

Mata MM; Wijffels SE; Church JA; Tomczak M, 2006, 'Eddy shedding and energy conversions in the East Australian Current', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JC003592

Church JA; White NJ; Hunter JR, 2006, 'Sea-level rise at tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean islands', Global and Planetary Change, 53, pp. 155 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.04.001

Mata MM; Wijffels S; Church JA; Tomczak M, 2006, 'Statistical description of the East Australian Current low-frequency variability from the WOCE PCM3 array', Marine and Freshwater Research, 57, pp. 273 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF05058

Domingues CM; Wijffels SE; Maltrud ME; Church JA; Tomczak M, 2006, 'Role of eddies in cooling the Leeuwin Current', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025216

Church JA; White NJ, 2006, 'A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL024826

Church JA; White NJ; Arblaster JM, 2005, 'Significant decadal-scale impact of volcanic eruptions on sea level and ocean heat content', Nature, 438, pp. 74 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04237

Liu Y; Feng M; Church J; Wang D, 2005, 'Effect of salinity on estimating geostrophic transport of the Indonesian Throughflow along the IX1 XBT section', Journal of Oceanography, 61, pp. 795 - 801, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10872-005-0086-3

Aoki S; Bindoff NL; Church JA, 2005, 'Interdecadal water mass changes in the Southern Ocean between 30°E and 160°E', Geophysical Research Letters, 32, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL022220

White NJ; Church JA; Gregory JM, 2005, 'Coastal and global averaged sea level rise for 1950 to 2000', Geophysical Research Letters, 32, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021391

Yoshikawa Y; Church JA; Uchida H; White NJ, 2004, 'Near bottom currents and their relation to the transport in the Kuroshio Extension', Geophysical Research Letters, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL020068

Church JA; White NJ; Coleman R; Lambeck K; Mitrovica JX, 2004, 'Estimates of the regional distribution of sea level rise over the 1950-2000 period', JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 17, pp. 2609 - 2625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2609:EOTRDO>2.0.CO;2

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