By Emeritus Professor John Alexander Church

Journal articles

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

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

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

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