Neville Nicholls
Position
ARC Professorial Fellow, Regional Climate Group
Contact
Building: 28
Room No: 220
Phone : +61 3 990 20111
Fax: +61-3-99052948
Email: Neville.Nicholls@monash.edu
Qualifications
- BSc, 1970, Monash University.
- MSc (Meteorology), 1980, Melbourne University.
- PhD (Meteorology), 1983, Melbourne University,
- MBA, 1985, RMIT.
Professional Association
Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (President, 2010-11)
Royal Meteorological Society (Fellow since 1980)
American Meteorological Society (Member since 1984)
American Geophysical Union (Member since 1992)
Background
I lead a five-year ARC funded research program to improve the scientific basis for improved climate predictions on seasonal and climate-change timescales. Within this program there are three projects, to:
- Determine the cause of the tropical tropospheric biennial oscillation and the autumn predictability barrier.
- Determine the causes of interannual and long-term variations in Australian tropical cyclone activity.
- Determine the causes of climate-related trends and impacts (eg, drought) in Australia.
I also have a continuing involvement in epidemiological studies linking climate and health.
Research Interests
- Climate variability and prediction
- Climate impacts (especially health impacts)
- Monitoring changes in climate extremes
Selected Publications
IPCC, 2011: Summary for Policymakers. In: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C. B., Barros, V., Stocker, T.F., Qin, D., Dokken, D., Ebi, K.L., Mastrandrea, M. D., Mach, K. J., Plattner, G.-K., Allen, S., Tignor, M. and P. M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA
Nicholls, N., 2011. Comment on “Influence of location, population and climate on building damage and fatalities due to Australian bushfire: 1925-2009”. Weather, Climate and Society, 3, 61-62 (doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-10-05001.1)
Nicholls, N., 2011. Comment on “Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change”. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 92, 791, (doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3167.1).
Nicholls, N., and Larsen, S., 2011. Impact of drought on temperature extremes in Melbourne, Australia. Aust. Meteorol. Oceanogr. J., 61, 113-116.
Pearce, J. L., Beringer, J., Nicholls, N., Hyndman, R. J., Uotila, P., and Tapper, N. J., 2011. Investigating the influence of synoptic-scale circulation on air quality using self-organizing maps and generalized additive modeling. Atmospheric Environment, 45, 128-136.
Pearce, J. L., Beringer, J., Nicholls, N., Hyndman, R. J., and Tapper, N. J., 2011. Quantifying the influence of local meteorology on air quality using generalized additive modelling, Atmospheric Environment, 45, 1328-1336.
Nicholls, N., 2010. Local and remote causes of the southern Australian autumn-winter rainfall decline, 1958-2007. Climate Dynamics, 34, 835-845. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0527-6.
Nicholls, N., 2010. Why do we care about past climates? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 1, 155-157.
Nicholls, N., 2010. Impacts of climate change in Australia. Nova Acta Leopoldina NF, 112, 293-307.
Nicholls, N., Uotila, P., and Alexander, L., 2010. Synoptic influences on seasonal, inter-annual, and decadal temperature variations in Melbourne, Australia. Int. J. Climatology, 30, 1372-1381, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1965.
Loughnan, M., Nicholls, N., and Tapper, N., 2010. When the heat is on: threshold temperatures for Acute Myocardial Infarction admissions to hospital in Melbourne Australia. Applied Geography, 30, 63-69.
Alexander, L. V., Uotila, P., Nicholls, N., and Lynch, A., 2010. A new daily pressure dataset for Australia and its application to the assessment of changes in synoptic patterns during the last century. J. Climate, 23, 1111-1126.
Green, D., Alexander, L., Mclnnes, K., Church, J., Nicholls, N., and White, N., 2010. An assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation for the Torres Strait Islands, Australia. Climatic Change, 102, 405-433.
Loughnan, M., Nicholls, N., and Tapper, N., 2010. The effects of summer temperature, age and socioeconomic circumstance on acute myocardial infarction admissions in Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Health Geographics, 9: 41.
Loughnan, M., Nicholls, N., and Tapper, N., 2010. Mortality-temperature thresholds for ten major population centres in rural Victoria, Australia. Health and Place, 16, 1287-1290Funded Projects
ARC DP and Professorial Fellowship, 2008-2013
Prizes and Awards
1987 Priestley Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2005 Bureau of Meteorology Individual Excellence Award
2005 FitzRoy Prize, Royal Meteorological Society.
Recent External Services
Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Executive Editor, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change