By Emeritus Professor John Alexander Church

Journal articles

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, 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, 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, pp. L16309 - L16305, 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

Church JA; White NJ; Coleman R; Lambeck K; Mitrovica JX, 2004, 'Global and regional sea-level rise', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, pp. 950 - 952

Walsh KJE; Betts H; Church J; Pittock AB; McInnes KL; Jacket DR; McDougall TJ, 2004, 'Using sea level rise projections for urban planning in Australia', Journal of Coastal Research, 20, pp. 586 - 598, http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/1551-5036(2004)020[0586:USLRPF]2.0.CO;2

Watson C; White N; Coleman R; Church J; Morgan P; Govind R, 2004, 'TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1: Absolute calibration in Bass Strait, Australia', Marine Geodesy, 27, pp. 107 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490410490465373

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

McDougall TJ; Church JA; Jackett DR, 2003, 'Does the nonlinearity of the equation of state impose an upper bound on the buoyancy frequency?', Journal of Marine Research, 61, pp. 745 - 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1357/002224003322981138

Du Y; Wang D; Xie Q; Church J, 2003, 'Harmonic analysis of sea surface temperature and wind stress in the vicinity of the maritime continent', Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 17, pp. 226 - 237

Watson C; Coleman R; White N; Church J; Govind R, 2003, 'Absolute calibration of TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 using GPS buoys in bass strait, Australia', Marine Geodesy, 26, pp. 285 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714044522

Watson C; Coleman R; White N; Church J; Govind R, 2003, 'Absolute Calibration of TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Using GPS Buoys in Bass Strait, Australia Special Issue: Jason-1 Calibration/Validation', Marine Geodesy, 26, pp. 285 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714044522

Rintoul SR; Sokolov S; Church J, 2002, 'A 6 year record of baroclinic transport variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar current at 140°E derived from expendable bathythermography and altimeter measurements', Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 107, pp. 1 - 22

Gregory JM; Church JA, 2002, 'Changes in sea-level', Weather, 57, pp. 287 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1256/004316502320517380

Rintoul SR; Sokolov S; Church J, 2002, 'A 6 year record of baroclinic transport variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at 140°E derived from expendable bathythermograph and altimeter measurements', Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, pp. 19-1-19-22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001jc000787

Clarke A; Church J; Gould J, 2001, 'Chapter 1.2 Ocean processes and climate phenomena', International Geophysics, 77, pp. 11 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0074-6142(01)80109-1

Gould J; Church J; Siedler G, 2001, 'Preface', International Geophysics, 77, pp. xviii - iixix, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0074-6142(01)80106-6

Church JA, 2001, 'Climate change: How fast are sea levels rising?', Science, 294, pp. 802 - 803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1065714

Church JA, 2001, 'Sea level rise: History and consequences', Eos, 82, pp. 376 - 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/01eo00232

Wong APS; Bindoff NL; Church JA, 2001, 'Freshwater and heat changes in the North and South Pacific Oceans between the 1960s and 1985-94', Journal of Climate, 14, pp. 1613 - 1633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<1613:FAHCIT>2.0.CO;2

Gregory JM; Church JA; Boer GJ; Dixon KW; Flato GM; Jackett DR; Lowe JA; O'Farrell SP; Roeckner E; Russell GL; Stouffer RJ; Winton M, 2001, 'Comparison of results from several AOGCMs for global and regional sea-level change 1900-2100', Climate Dynamics, 18, pp. 223 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s003820100180

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