By Scientia Professor Andy Pitman

Journal articles

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; Wang Y-P, 2010, 'Can the stomatal response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide explain the unusual temperatures during the 2002 Murray-Darling Basin drought?', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. D02101.1 - D02101.2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012767

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; Mcgregor JL; Evans JP, 2010, 'Contrasting Regional Responses to Increasing Leaf-Level Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide over Australia', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 11, pp. 296 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JHM1175.1

Roubicek A; Vanderwai J; Beaumont L; Pitman AJ; Wilson P; Hughes L, 2010, 'Does the choice of climate baseline matter in ecological niche modelling?', Ecological Modelling, 221, pp. 2280 - 2286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.06.021

Cruz FT; Pitman AJ; McGregor JL, 2010, 'Probabilistic simulations of the impact of increasing leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide on the global land surface', Climate Dynamics, 34, pp. 361 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-008-0497-0

Macadam I; Pitman AJ; Whetton P; Abramowitz G, 2010, 'Ranking climate models by performance using actual values and anomalies: Implications for climate change impact assessments', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, pp. L16704, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL043877

Newell BR; Pitman AJ, 2010, 'The psychology of global warming: Improving the fit between the science and the message', State of the Climate, 91, pp. 1003 - 1014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS2957.1

McAneney J; Chen K; Pitman AJ, 2009, '100-years of Australian bushfire property losses: Is the risk significant and is it increasing?', Journal of Environmental Management, 90, pp. 2819 - 2822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.03.013

England MH; Sen Gupta AR; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Constraining future greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative target', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 16539 - 16540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0908197106

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Do weak AR4 models bias projections of future climate changes over Australia?', Climatic Change, 93, pp. 527 - 558

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2009, 'Global and regional comparison of daily 2-m and 1000-hPa maximum and minimum temperatures in three global reanalyses', Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 4667 - 4681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2799.1

Moles AT; Warton DI; Warman L; Swenson N; Laffan SW; Zanne A; Pitman AJ; Hemmings F; Leishman M, 2009, 'Global patterns in plant height', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 923 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01526.x

Findell K; Pitman AJ; England MH; Pegion P, 2009, 'Regional and global impacts of land cover change and sea surface temperature anomalies', Journal of Climate, 22, pp. 3248 - 3269

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Sisson SA, 2009, 'Smaller projected increases in 20-year temperature returns over Australia in skill-selected climate models', Geophysical Research Letters, 36, pp. L06710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL037293

Ashe B; McAneney K; Pitman AJ, 2009, 'Total cost of fire in Australia', Journal of Risk Research, 12, pp. 121 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669870802648528

Pitman AJ; De Noblet-Ducoudre N; Cruz FT; Davin E; Bonan G; Brovkin V; Claussen M; Delire C; Ganzeveld L; Gayler V; Van Den Hurk B; Lawrence P; Van Der Molen M; Muller C; Reick C; Seneviratne S; Strengen B; Voldoire A, 2009, 'Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study', Geophysical Research Letters, 36, pp. L14814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL039076

Maxino CC; McAvaney BJ; Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2008, 'Erratum: Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray-Darling Basin using stimulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation (International Journal of Climatology (2007) (10.1002/joc.1612))', International Journal of Climatology, 28, pp. 983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1653

Abramowitz G; Leuning R; Clark M; Pitman AJ, 2008, 'Evaluating the performance of land surface models', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 5468 - 5481

Pitman AJ; Tong SJ; FitzGerald G; Nicholls N; Selvey L, 2008, 'Global climate change:time to mainstream health risks and their prevention on the medical research and policy agenda.', Internal Medicine Journal, 38 (6a), pp. 445 - 447

Moles AT; Pitman AJ; Wright IJ; Murray BR; Westoby M, 2008, 'Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?', Ecography, 32, pp. 78 - 82

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2008, 'Regional Projections of Future Seasonal and Annual Changes in Rainfall and Temperature over Australia Based on Skill-Selected AR4 Models', Earth Interactions, 12, pp. 1 - 50

Beaumont LJ; Hughes L; Pitman AJ, 2008, 'Why is the choice of future climate scenarios for species distribution modelling important?', Ecology Letters, 11, pp. 1135 - 1146

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Holbrook NJ; McAneney J, 2007, 'Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia', International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 7, pp. 275 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGENVI.2007.016108

Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2007, 'Climate Change Science: Status, and Next Steps in the Projection of Future changes', Environmental Health, 7, pp. 22 - 42

Perkins SE; Pitman AJ; Holbrook N; McAneney J, 2007, 'Evaluation of the AR4 Climate Models` Simulated Daily Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation over Australia Using Probability Density Functions.', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4356 - 4376

Moles AT; Ackerly D; Tweddle J; Dickie J; Smith R; Leishman M; Mayfield M; Pitman AJ; Wood J; Westoby M, 2007, 'Global patterns in seed size', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, pp. 109 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822x.2006.00259.x

Maxino C; McAvaney BJ; Pitman AJ; Perkins SE, 2007, 'Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray-Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation.', International Journal of Climatology, pp. 1097 - 1112

Abramowitz G; Pitman AJ; Gupta H; Kowalczyk EA; Wang Y, 2007, 'Systematic Bias in Land Surface Models', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8 (5), pp. 989 - 1001

Pitman AJ; Narisma G; McAneney J, 2007, 'The impact of Climate Change on the risk of forest and grassland fires in Australia.', Climatic Change, pp. 383 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-007-9243-6

Pitman AJ; Hesse P, 2007, 'The significance of large scale land cover change on the Australian palaeomonsoon', Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, pp. 189 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.06.014

Beaumont LJ; Pitman AJ; Hughes L; Poulsen M, 2007, 'Where will species go? Incorporating new advances in climate modelling into projections of species distributions', Global Change Biology, 13, pp. 1368 - 1385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01357.x

Moles AT; Ackerly DD; Tweddle JC; Dickie JB; Smith R; Leishman MR; Mayfield MM; Pitman A; Wood JT; Westoby M, 2006, 'Global patterns in seed size', Global Ecology and Biogeography, pp. 061120101210018 - ???, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822x.2006.00259.x

Koster RD; Guo Z; Dirmeyer PA; Bonan G; Chan E; Cox P; Davies H; Gordon CT; Kanae S; Kowalczyk E; Lawrence D; Liu P; Lu CH; Malyshev S; McAvaney B; Mitchell K; Mocko D; Oki T; Oleson KW; Pitman A; Sud YC; Taylor CM; Verseghy D; Vasic R; Xue Y; Yamada T, 2006, 'GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7, pp. 590 - 610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM510.1

Pitman AJ; Stouffer R, 2006, 'Abrupt change in climate and climate models', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10, pp. 903 - 912, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-10-903-2006

Abramowitz G; Gupta H; Pitman AJ; Wang Y; Leuning R; Cleugh H; Hsu K, 2006, 'Neural Error Regression Diagnosis (NERD): a tool for model bias identification and prognostic data assimilation', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8, pp. 989 - 1001

Gero A; Pitman AJ, 2006, 'The impact of land cover change on a simulated storm event in the Sydney Basin,', Journal of Applied Meteorology, 45, pp. 283 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAM2337.1

Bagnoud N; Pitman AJ; McAvaney BJ; Holbrook NJ, 2005, 'The contribution of the land surface energy balance complexity to differences in means, variances and extremes using the AMIP-II methodology', Climate Dynamics, 25, pp. 171 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-005-0004-9

Moles AT; Ackerly DD; Webb CO; Tweddle JC; Dickie JB; Pitman AJ; Westoby M, 2005, 'Factors that shape seed mass evolution', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, pp. 10540 - 10544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501473102

Peel DR; Pitman AJ; Hughes LA; Narisma GT; Pielke RA, 2005, 'The impact of realistic biophysical parameters for eucalypts on the simulation of the January climate of Australia', Environmental Modelling and Software, 20, pp. 595 - 612, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.03.004

McAneney J; Pitman AJ, 2005, 'Global Climate Change: Fact or Urban Myth?', Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal, 28, pp. 18 - 21

Pitman AJ; Abramowitz G, 2005, 'What are the limits to statistical error correction in land surface schemes when projecting the future', Geophysical Research Letters, 32, pp. L14403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023158

Pitman AJ; Narisma GT; Pielke RA; Holbrook NJ, 2004, 'Impact of land cover change on the climate of southwest Western Australia', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 109, pp. D18109 - D18112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003JD004347

Koster RD; Dirmeyer PA; Guo Z; Bonan G; Chan E; Cox P; Gordon CT; Kanae S; Kowalczyk E; Lawrence D; Liu P; Lu CH; Malyshev S; McAvaney B; Mitchell K; Mocko D; Oki T; Oleson K; Pitman A; Sud YC; Taylor CM; Verseghy D; Vasic R; Xue Y; Yamada T, 2004, 'Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation', Science, 305, pp. 1138 - 1140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100217

Pitman AJ; McAvaney BJ; Bagnoud N; Cheminat B, 2004, 'Are inter-model differences in AMIP-II near surface air temperature means and extremes explained by land surface energy balance complexity?', Geophysical Research Letters, 31, pp. L05205 - L05204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003gl019233

Pitman AJ; McAvaney BJ, 2004, 'Impact of varying the complexity of the land surface energy balance on the sensitivity of the Australian climate to increasing carbon dioxide', Climate Research, 25, pp. 191 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr025191

Narisma GT; Pitman AJ, 2004, 'The Effect of Including Biospheric Responses to CO2 on the Impact of Land-Cover Change over Australia', EARTH INTERACTIONS, 8, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207066500005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Boone AA; Habets F; Noilhan J; Clark D; Dirmeyer P; Fox S; Gusev Y; Haddeland I; Koster R; Lohmann D; Mahanama S; Mitchell K; Nasonova O; Niu GY; Pitman A; Polcher J; Shmakin AB; Tanaka K; Van Den Hurk B; Vérant S; Verseghy D; Viterbo P; Yang ZL, 2004, 'The Rho̊ne-aggregation land surface scheme intercomparison project: An overview', Journal of Climate, 17, pp. 187 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0187:TRLSSI>2.0.CO;2

Narisma GT; Pitman AJ; Eastman J; Watterson IG; Pielke R; Beltrán-Przekurat A, 2003, 'The role of biospheric feedbacks in the simulation of the impact of historical land cover change on the Australian January climate', Geophysical Research Letters, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003GL018261

Henderson-Sellers A; Irannejad P; McGuffie K; Pitman AJ, 2003, 'Predicting land-surface climates-better skill or moving targets?', Geophysical Research Letters, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003GL017387

Luo L; Robock A; Vinnikov KY; Schlosser CA; Slater AG; Boone A; Braden H; Cox P; de Rosnay P; Dickinson RE; Dai Y; Duan Q; Etchevers P; Henderson-Sellers A; Gedney N; Gusev YM; Habets F; Kim J; Kowalczyk E; Mitchell K; Nasonova ON; Noilhan J; Pitman AJ; Schaake J; Shmakin AB; Smirnova TG; Wetzel P; Xue Y; Yang ZL; Zeng QC, 2003, 'Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 4, pp. 334 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1525-7541(2003)4<334:EOFSOS>2.0.CO;2

Pitman AJ, 2003, 'The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed for climate models', International Journal of Climatology, 23, pp. 479 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.893

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