By Scientia Professor Andy Pitman

Journal articles

De Kauwe MG; Medlyn BE; Pitman AJ; Drake JE; Ukkola A; Griebel A; Pendall E; Prober S; Roderick M, 2019, 'Examining the evidence for decoupling between photosynthesis and transpiration during heat extremes', Biogeosciences, 16, pp. 903 - 916, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-903-2019

Ge J; Guo W; Pitman AJ; de Kauwe MG; Chen X; Fu C, 2019, 'The nonradiative effect dominates local surface temperature change caused by afforestation in China', Journal of Climate, 32, pp. 4445 - 4471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0772.1

Uthayakumaran L; Spaninks F; Barker A; Pitman A; Evans JP, 2019, 'Impact of Climate Change on Water Demand', Water e-Journal, 4, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.21139/wej.2019.012

Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Pitman A, 2018, 'Extreme events in the context of climate change', Public Health Research and Practice, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2841825

Donat MG; Pitman AJ; Angélil O; Angelil O, 2018, 'Understanding and Reducing Future Uncertainty in Midlatitude Daily Heat Extremes Via Land Surface Feedback Constraints', Geophysical Research Letters, 45, pp. 10 - 636, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079128

De Kauwe MG; Medlyn BE; Pitman AJ; Drake JE; Ukkola A; Griebal A; Pendall E; Prober S; Roderick M, 2018, 'Examining the evidence for sustained transpiration during heat extremes', Biogeosciences Discussions, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-2018-399

Ukkola AM; Pitman AJ; Donat MG; De Kauwe MG; Angélil O; Angelil O, 2018, 'Evaluating the Contribution of Land-Atmosphere Coupling to Heat Extremes in CMIP5 Models', Geophysical Research Letters, 45, pp. 9003 - 9012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079102

Zscheischler J; Westra S; van den Hurk BJJM; Seneviratne SI; Ward PJ; Pitman A; AghaKouchak A; Bresch DN; Leonard M; Wahl T; Zhang X, 2018, 'Erratum to: Future climate risk from compound events (Nature Climate Change, (2018), 8, 6, (469-477), 10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3)', Nature Climate Change, 8, pp. 750, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0220-z

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; De Kauwe MG; Pitman AJ, 2018, 'Does predictability of fluxes vary between FLUXNET sites?', Biogeosciences, 15, pp. 4495 - 4513, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4495-2018

Lipson MJ; Thatcher M; Hart MA; Pitman A, 2018, 'A building energy demand and urban land surface model', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144, pp. 1572 - 1590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3317

Ukkola AM; Pitman AJ; De Kauwe MG; Abramowitz G; Herger N; Evans JP; Decker M, 2018, 'Evaluating CMIP5 model agreement for multiple drought metrics', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 19, pp. 969 - 988, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0099.1

Zscheischler J; Westra S; Van Den Hurk BJJM; Seneviratne SI; Ward PJ; Pitman A; Aghakouchak A; Bresch DN; Leonard M; Wahl T; Zhang X, 2018, 'Future climate risk from compound events', Nature Climate Change, 8, pp. 469 - 477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3

Ma S; Pitman A; Yang J; Carouge C; Evans JP; Hart M; Green D, 2018, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation options on heat stress for Sydney, Australia', Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57, pp. 209 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0061.1

Seneviratne SI; Phipps SJ; Pitman AJ; Hirsch AL; Davin EL; Donat MG; Hirschi M; Lenton A; Wilhelm M; Kravitz B, 2018, 'Land radiative management as contributor to regional-scale climate adaptation and mitigation', Nature Geoscience, 11, pp. 88 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-017-0057-5

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ, 2018, 'On the predictability of land surface fluxes from meteorological variables', Geoscientific Model Development, 11, pp. 195 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-195-2018

Evans JP; Kay M; Prasad A; Pitman A, 2018, 'The resilience of Australian wind energy to climate change', Environmental Research Letters, 13, pp. 024014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa632

Gibson PB; Pitman AJ; Lorenz R; Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE, 2017, 'The Role of Circulation and Land Surface Conditions in Current and Future Australian Heat Waves', Journal of Climate, 30, pp. 9933 - 9948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0265.1

Wartenburger R; Hirschi M; Donat MG; Greve P; Pitman AJ; Seneviratne SI, 2017, 'Changes in regional climate extremes as a function of global mean temperature: An interactive plotting framework', Geoscientific Model Development, 10, pp. 3609 - 3634, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3609-2017

Ukkola AM; Haughton N; De Kauwe MG; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ, 2017, 'FluxnetLSM R package (v1.0): A community tool for processing FLUXNET data for use in land surface modelling', Geoscientific Model Development, 10, pp. 3379 - 3390, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3379-2017

Ma S; Pitman A; Hart M; Evans JP; Haghdadi N; MacGill I, 2017, 'The impact of an urban canopy and anthropogenic heat fluxes on Sydney's climate', International Journal of Climatology, 37, pp. 255 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5001

Donat MG; Pitman AJ; Seneviratne SI, 2017, 'Regional warming of hot extremes accelerated by surface energy fluxes', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 7011 - 7019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073733

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ, 2017, 'On the Predictability of Land Surface Fluxes from Meteorological Variables', , pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2017-153

Loughran TF; Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE; Alexander LV; Pitman AJ, 2017, 'No significant difference between Australian heat wave impacts of Modoki and eastern Pacific El Niño', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 5150 - 5157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073231

Decker M; Ma S; Pitman A, 2017, 'Local land-atmosphere feedbacks limit irrigation demand', Environmental Research Letters, 12, pp. 054003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa65a6

Ma S; Goldstein M; Pitman AJ; Haghdadi N; MacGill I, 2017, 'Pricing the urban cooling benefits of solar panel deployment in Sydney, Australia', Scientific Reports, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43938

Decker M; Or D; Pitman A; Ukkola A, 2017, 'New turbulent resistance parameterization for soil evaporation based on a pore-scale model: Impact on surface fluxes in CABLE', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, pp. 220 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000832

Green D; Pitman A; Barnett A; Kaldor J; Doherty P; Stanley F, 2017, 'Advancing Australia's role in climate change and health research', Nature Climate Change, 7, pp. 103 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3182

Clarke H; Pitman AJ; Kala J; Carouge C; Haverd V; Evans JP, 2016, 'An investigation of future fuel load and fire weather in Australia', Climatic Change, 139, pp. 591 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1808-9

Macadam I; Argüeso D; Evans JP; Liu DL; Pitman AJ, 2016, 'The effect of bias correction and climate model resolution on wheat simulations forced with a regional climate model ensemble', International Journal of Climatology, 36, pp. 4577 - 4591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4653

Gibson PB; Uotila P; Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE; Alexander LV; Pitman AJ, 2016, 'Evaluating synoptic systems in the CMIP5 climate models over the Australian region', Climate Dynamics, 47, pp. 2235 - 2251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2961-y

Pitman AJ; Lorenz R, 2016, 'Scale dependence of the simulated impact of Amazonian deforestation on regional climate', Environmental Research Letters, 11, pp. 094025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094025

Berg A; Findell K; Lintner B; Giannini A; Seneviratne SI; Van Den Hurk B; Lorenz R; Pitman A; Hagemann S; Meier A; Cheruy F; Ducharne A; Malyshev S; Milly PCD, 2016, 'Land-atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming', Nature Climate Change, 6, pp. 869 - 874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3029

Ukkola AM; Pitman AJ; Decker M; De Kauwe MG; Abramowitz G; Kala J; Wang YP, 2016, 'Modelling evapotranspiration during precipitation deficits: Identifying critical processes in a land surface model', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, pp. 2403 - 2419, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2403-2016

Haughton N; Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ; Or D; Best MJ; Johnson HR; 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; Santanello JA; Stevens LE; Vuichard N, 2016, 'The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17, pp. 1705 - 1723, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0171.1

Lorenz R; Pitman AJ; Sisson SA, 2016, 'Does Amazonian deforestation cause global effects; can we be sure?', JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 121, pp. 5567 - 5584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024357

Kala J; De Kauwe MG; Pitman AJ; Medlyn BE; Wang YP; Lorenz R; Perkins-Kirkpatrick SE, 2016, 'Impact of the representation of stomatal conductance on model projections of heatwave intensity', Scientific Reports, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep23418

Ma S; Pitman AJ; Lorenz R; Kala J; Srbinovsky J, 2016, 'Earlier green-up and spring warming amplification over Europe', Geophysical Research Letters, 43, pp. 2011 - 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068062

Seneviratne SI; Donat MG; Pitman AJ; Knutti R; Wilby RL, 2016, 'Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets', Nature, 529, pp. 477 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16542

Lorenz R; Argüeso D; Donat MG; Pitman AJ; Hurk BVD; Berg A; Lawrence DM; Chéruy F; Ducharne A; Hagemann S; Meier A; Milly PCD; Seneviratne SI, 2016, 'Influence of land-atmosphere feedbacks on temperature and precipitation extremes in the GLACE-CMIP5 ensemble', Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, pp. 607 - 623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015JD024053

Hirsch AL; Pitman AJ; Haverd V, 2016, 'Evaluating land-atmosphere coupling using a resistance pathway framework', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17, pp. 2615 - 2630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0204.1

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

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

Decker M; Pitman A; Evans J, 2015, 'Diagnosing the seasonal land-atmosphere correspondence over northern Australia: Dependence on soil moisture state and correspondence strength definition', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19, pp. 3433 - 3447, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3433-2015

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', , 12, pp. 12349 - 12393, 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)', , 8, pp. 5235 - 5264, 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

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