By Professor Andy Pitman

Journal articles

Ukkola AM; De Kauwe MG; Pitman AJ; Best MJ; Abramowitz G; Haverd V; Decker M; Haughton N, 2016, 'Land surface models systematically overestimate the intensity, duration and magnitude of seasonal-scale evaporative droughts', Environmental Research Letters, 11, pp. 104012 - 104012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104012

De Kauwe MG; Zhou SX; Medlyn BE; Pitman AJ; Wang YP; Duursma RA; Prentice IC, 2015, 'Do land surface models need to include differential plant species responses to drought? Examining model predictions across a mesic-xeric gradient in Europe', Biogeosciences, 12, pp. 7503 - 7518, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7503-2015

Kala J; De Kauwe MG; Pitman AJ; Lorenz R; Medlyn BE; Wang YP; Lin YS; Abramowitz G, 2015, 'Implementation of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme in the Australian Community Climate Earth Systems Simulator (ACCESS1.3b)', Geoscientific Model Development, 8, pp. 3877 - 3889, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3877-2015

Green D; Bambrick H; Tait P; Goldie J; Schultz R; Webb L; Alexander L; Pitman A, 2015, 'Differential Effects of Temperature Extremes on Hospital Admission Rates for Respiratory Disease between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory', Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 12, pp. 15352 - 15365, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121214988

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; Pitman A; Phipps SJ, 2015, 'Weighting climate model ensembles for mean and variance estimates', Climate Dynamics, 45, pp. 3169 - 3181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2531-3

Kala J; Evans JP; Pitman AJ, 2015, 'Influence of antecedent soil moisture conditions on the synoptic meteorology of the Black Saturday bushfire event in southeast Australia', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, pp. 3118 - 3129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.2596

De Kauwe MG; Zhou S-X; Medlyn BE; Pitman AJ; Wang Y-P; Duursma RA; Prentice IC, 2015, 'Do land surface models need to include differential plant species responses to drought? Examining model predictions across a latitudinal gradient in Europe', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-12-12349-2015

Kala J; De Kauwe MG; Pitman AJ; Lorenz R; Medlyn BE; Wang Y-P; Lin Y-S; Abramowitz G, 2015, 'Implementation of an optimal stomatal conductance model in the Australian Community Climate Earth Systems Simulator (ACCESS1.3b)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmdd-8-5235-2015

De Kauwe MG; Kala J; Lin YS; Pitman AJ; Medlyn BE; Duursma RA; Abramowitz G; Wang YP; Miralles DG, 2015, 'A test of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme within the CABLE land surface model', Geoscientific Model Development, 8, pp. 431 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-431-2015

Argüeso D; Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Luca AD; Di Luca A; Argüeso Barriga D, 2015, 'Effects of city expansion on heat stress under climate change conditions', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0117066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117066

Lorenz R; Pitman AJ; Hirsch AL; Srbinovsky J, 2015, 'Intraseasonal versus interannual measures of land-atmosphere coupling strength in a global climate model: GLACE-1 versus GLACE-CMIP5 experiments in ACCESS1.3b', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, pp. 2276 - 2295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0206.1

Hirsch AL; Pitman AJ; Kala J; Lorenz R; Donat MG, 2015, 'Modulation of land-use change impacts on temperature extremes via land–atmosphere coupling over Australia', Earth Interactions, 19, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-15-0011.1

Wang YP; Zhang Q; Pitman AJ; Dai Y, 2015, 'Nitrogen and phosphorous limitation reduces the effects of land use change on land carbon uptake or emission', Environmental Research Letters, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/1/014001

Best MJ; Abramowitz G; Johnson HR; Pitman AJ; Balsamo G; Boone A; Cuntz M; Decharme B; Dirmeyer PA; Dong J; Ek M; Guo Z; Haverd V; van Den Hurk BJJ; Nearing GS; Pak B; Peters-Lidard C; Santanello JA; Stevens L; Vuichard N, 2015, 'The plumbing of land surface models: Benchmarking model performance', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16, pp. 1425 - 1442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0158.1

Ukkola AM; Pitman AJ; Decker M; De Kauwe MG; Abramowitz G; Kala J; Wang YP, 2015, 'Modelling evapotranspiration during precipitation deficits: identifying critical processes in a land surface model', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 12, pp. 10789 - 10825

Exbrayat JF; Pitman AJ; Abramowitz G, 2014, 'Disentangling residence time and temperature sensitivity of microbial decomposition in a global soil carbon model', Biogeosciences, 11, pp. 6999 - 7008, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6999-2014

Exbrayat JF; Pitman AJ; Abramowitz G, 2014, 'Response of microbial decomposition to spin-up explains CMIP5 soil carbon range until 2100', Geoscientific Model Development, 7, pp. 2683 - 2692, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2683-2014

Andersen A; Beringer J; Bull CM; Byrne M; Cleugh H; Christensen R; French K; Harch B; Hoffmann A; Lowe AJ; Moltmann T; Nicotra A; Pitman A; Phinn S; Wardle G; Westoby M, 2014, 'Foundations for the future: A long-term plan for Australian ecosystem science', Austral Ecology, 39, pp. 739 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12188

Kala J; Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Schaaf CB; Decker M; Carouge C; Mocko D; Sun Q, 2014, 'Erratum: "Implementation of a soil albedo scheme in the CABLEv1.4b land surface model and evaluation against MODIS estimates over Australia" (Geosci. Model Dev. (2014) 7 (2121-2140))', Geoscientific Model Development, 7, pp. 2501, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2501-2014

Macadam I; Pitman AJ; Whetton PH; Liu DL; Evans JP, 2014, 'The use of uncorrected regional climate model output to force impact models: A case study for wheat simulations', Climate Research, 61, pp. 215 - 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01258

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; Pitman A; Phipps SJ, 2014, 'On the generation of climate model ensembles', Climate Dynamics, 43, pp. 2297 - 2308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2054-3

Lorenz R; Pitman AJ, 2014, 'Effect of land-atmosphere coupling strength on impacts from Amazonian deforestation', Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp. 5987 - 5995, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061017

Hirsch AL; Pitman AJ; Kala J, 2014, 'The role of land cover change inmodulating the soil moisture-temperature land-atmosphere coupling strength over Australia', Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp. 5883 - 5890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061179

Lorenz R; Pitman AJ; Donat MG; Hirsch AL; Kala J; Kowalczyk EA; Law RM; Srbinovsky J, 2014, 'Representation of climate extreme indices in the ACCESS1.3b coupled atmosphere-land surface model', Geoscientific Model Development, 7, pp. 545 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-545-2014

Hirsch AL; Pitman AJ; Seneviratne SI; Evans JP; Haverd V, 2014, 'Summertime maximum and minimum temperature coupling asymmetry over Australia determined using WRF', Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp. 1546 - 1552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GL059055

Kala J; Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Schaaf CB; Decker M; Carouge C; Mocko D; Sun Q, 2014, 'Implementation of a soil albedo scheme in the CABLEv1.4b land surface model and evaluation against MODIS estimates over Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmdd-7-1671-2014

Hirsch AL; Kala J; Pitman AJ; Carouge C; Evans JP; Haverd V; Mocko D, 2014, 'Impact of land surface initialization approach on subseasonal forecast skill: A regional analysis in the Southern Hemisphere', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, pp. 300 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-05.1

Zhang Q; Wang YP; Matear RJ; Pitman AJ; Dai YJ, 2014, 'Nitrogen and phosphorous limitations significantly reduce future allowable CO2 emissions', Geophysical Research Letters, 41, pp. 632 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058352

Moles AT; Perkins SE; Laffan SW; Flores-Moreno H; Awasthy M; Tindall ML; Sack L; Pitman A; Kattge J; Aarssen LW; Anand M; Bahn M; Blonder B; Cavender-Bares J; Cornelissen JHC; Cornwell WK; Díaz S; Dickie JB; Freschet GT; Griffiths JG; Gutierrez AG; Hemmings FA; Hickler T; Hitchcock TD; Keighery M; Kleyer M; Kurokawa H; Leishman MR; Liu K; Niinemets Ü; Onipchenko V; Onoda Y; Penuelas J; Pillar VD; Reich PB; Shiodera S; Siefert A; Sosinski EE; Soudzilovskaia NA; Swaine EK; Swenson NG; van Bodegom PM; Warman L; Weiher E; Wright IJ; Zhang H; Zobel M; Bonser SP; Flores Moreno H; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, 2014, 'Which is a better predictor of plant traits: Temperature or precipitation?', Journal of Vegetation Science, 25, pp. 1167 - 1180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12190

Kala J; Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Schaaf CB; Decker M; Carouge C; Mocko D; Sun Q; Lea T; Prestage G; Wilson D; de Wit J, 2014, 'Corrigendum to', Geoscientific Model Development, 7, pp. 2501 - 2501, http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.19.1.21154

Decker M; Pitman A; Evans J, 2014, 'Diagnosing the seasonal land–atmosphere coupling strength over Northern Australia: dependence on soil moisture state and coupling strength definition.', Hydrology & Earth System Sciences Discussions, 11

Kala J; Evans JP; Pitman AJ; Schaaf CB; Decker M; Carouge C; Mocko D; Sun Q, 2014, 'Implementation of a soil albedo scheme in the CABLEv1. 4b land surface model and evaluation against MODIS estimates over Australia', Geoscientific Model Development, 7, pp. 2121 - 2140

Kala J; Decker M; Exbrayat J-F; Pitman AJ; Carouge C; Evans JP; Abramowitz G; Mocko D, 2014, 'Influence of leaf area index prescriptions on simulations of heat, moisture, and carbon fluxes', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, pp. 489 - 503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-063.1

Zhang Q; Pitman AJ; Wang YP; Dai YJ; Lawrence PJ, 2013, 'The impact of nitrogen and phosphorous limitation on the estimated terrestrial carbon balance and warming of land use change over the last 156 yr', Earth System Dynamics, 4, pp. 333 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-4-333-2013

Clarke H; Evans JP; Pitman AJ, 2013, 'Fire weather simulation skill by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over south-east Australia from 1985 to 2009', International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22, pp. 739 - 756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF12048

Decker M; Pitman AJ; Evans J, 2013, 'Applying Scaled Vegetation Greenness Metrics to Constrain Simulated Transpiration Anomalies: A Study over Australia*', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, pp. 1607 - 1623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-13-070.1

Exbrayat J-F; Pitman AJ; Zhang Q; Abramowitz G; Wang Y-P, 2013, 'Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-10-10229-2013

Exbrayat JF; Pitman A; Zhang Q; Abramowitz G; Wang YP, 2013, 'Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation', Biogeosciences, 10, pp. 7095 - 7108, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-7095-2013

Decker M; Pitman AJ; Evans JP, 2013, 'Groundwater constraints on simulated transpiration variability over southeastern Australian forests', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, pp. 543 - 559

Exbrayat JF; Pitman AJ; Abramowitz G; Wang YP, 2013, 'Sensitivity of net ecosystem exchange and heterotrophic respiration to parameterization uncertainty', Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 118, pp. 1640 - 1651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018122

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Sisson SA, 2013, 'Systematic differences in future 20-year temperature extremes in AR4 model projections over Australia as a function of model skill', International Journal of Climatology, 33, pp. 1153 - 1167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3500

Pitman A; de Noblet-Ducoudré N, 2012, 'Human Effects on Climate Through Land-Use-Induced Land-Cover Change', , pp. 77 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-386917-3.00004-X

Boisier J-P; De N-D; Pitman AJ; Cruz FT; Delire C; van DH; van DM; Muller C; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Attributing the impacts of land-cover changes in temperate regions on surface temperature and heat fluxes to specific causes: Results from the first LUCID set of simulations', Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, pp. Article number D12116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017106

Avila FB; Pitman AJ; Donat MG; Alexander LV; Abramowitz G, 2012, 'Climate model simulated changes in temperature extremes due to land cover change', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, pp. 4621 - 4640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016382

De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Boisier J-P; Pitman AJ; Bonan GB; Brovkin V; Cruz FT; Delire C; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk BJ; Lawrence PJ; Van Der Molen MK; Muller C; Reick CH; Strengers BJ; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Determining robust impacts of land-use-induced land cover changes on surface climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the first set of LUCID experiments', Journal of Climate, 25, pp. 3261 - 3281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00338.1

Pitman AJ; De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Avila F; Alexander LV; Boisier J-P; Brovkin V; Delire C; Cruz FT; Donat MG; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk BJ; Reick CH; Voldoire A, 2012, 'Effects of land cover change on temperature and rainfall extremes in multi-model ensemble simulations', Earth System Dynamics, 3, pp. 213 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-3-213-2012

Yearley S; Mercer D; Pitman A; Oreskes N; Conway E, 2012, 'Perspectives on global warming', Metascience, 21, pp. 531 - 559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9639-9

Pitman AJ; Arneth A; Ganzeveld L, 2012, 'Regionalizing global climate models', International Journal of Climatology, 32, pp. 321 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2279

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2012, 'Reply to "Comments on 'Global Regional Comparison of Daily 2-m and 1000-hPa Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Three Global Reanalyses'"', Journal of Climate, 25, pp. 8007 - 8008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00216.1

Pielke RA; Pitman A; Niyogi D; Mahmood R; McAlpine C; Hossain F; Goldewijk KK; Nair U; Betts R; Fall S; Reichstein M; Kabat P; de Noblet N, 2011, 'Land use/land cover changes and climate: Modeling analysis and observational evidence', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2, pp. 828 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.144

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