| Address: | CAWCR, Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia. |
| E-mail: m.wheeler@bom.gov.au
Phone: +61 (0)3 9669 4068 | Internet: http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/matw.htm
Citizenship: Australia |
| 2008 - Present | Centre for
Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne.
(CAWCR is a partnership between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO) Seasonal Prediction and Climate Variability Group (Senior Professional Officer Class B) |
2000-2007 | Bureau of Meteorology
Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Climate Forecasting Group (Professional Officer 2000-2002; Senior Professional Officer 2002-2007) |
| 1998 - 2000 | National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado,
U.S.A..
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Advanced Study Program. |
| 1994 - 1998 | University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A..
Ph.D., Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences, 1998. Thesis: Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves, 164 pp. Supervisors: Dr. George Kiladis and Professor Peter Webster Course work GPA: 4.00/4.00 M.Sc., Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences, 1996. Certificate, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 1995. |
| 1996 - 1998 | NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory,
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A..
Research assistant to Dr. George Kiladis in the Tropical Dynamics and Climate Group. |
| 1994 - 1995 | NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics
Center, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A..
Research assistant to Dr. George Kiladis. |
| 1993 | National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A..
Research assistant to Dr. Gerald Meehl. |
| 1990 - 1992 | Macquarie University,
Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.
Bachelor of Technology (Atmospheric Science). GPA: 4.00/4.00 |
| Intraseasonal to interannual variability of the atmosphere/ocean climate system and its role in weather and climate prediction, with particular specialisation in equatorial waves, the Madden-Julian oscillation, the Australian monsoon, and mechanisms of rainfall variability. Techniques development for the analysis of atmospheric and oceanic data, especially spectral analysis and methods of prediction. Observational analysis, theoretical interpretation, and numerical modelling. |
| Oct 2008-present: Editor, Monthly Weather Review. |
| 2008: Convener, special session on the Asian-Australian Monsoon, AGU Western Pacific Geophysics meeting, Cairns, Australia. |
| 2007-present: Member of Science Planning Group for the "Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC)". |
| 2007-present: Panel member, World Weather Research Program (WWRP) Monsoon Panel. |
| 2006-present: Contributing scientist, US-CLIVAR MJO Working Group. |
| 2006: Working group member, Short-term Climate Prediction of TC Activity and Intensity, 6th WMO IWTC Report. |
| 2005-2008: International committee member, AMS Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones Committee. |
| 2004-present: Associate Editor, Journal of Climate. |
| 2004-2006: Contributing Author (Sec 3.7.1.2) and Expert Reviewer (WG1) for IPCC AR4 2007. |
| 2004-2005: Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review. |
| 2002: Convener, special session on the MJO, AGU Western Pacific Geophysics meeting, Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 2002-2003: BMRC seminar coordinator. |
| 2002: Chairperson, Intraseasonal Scales session, 9th National AMOS Conference, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1999: Chairperson, Southern Hemisphere session, 17th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Denver, U.S.A.. |
| 1995: Comprehensive exams committee, APAS Department, University of Colorado. |
| Reviewer for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Climate, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Reviews of Geophysics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Tellus A, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,; NSF, DOE, NOAA, and NERC funding programs. |
| 1999: Completed AMS short course on Tropical-Extratropical Interaction and Prediction, Denver, U.S.A.. |
| 1997: Awarded competitive CIRES Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Colorado based on a research proposal. |
| 1997: "Best Student Paper" at the 11th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.. |
| 1995-1996: University Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.. |
| 1993: Completed the Coupled Climate System Modelling Graduate Summer School at Macquarie University. |
| 1991: Awarded B.Tech in Atmospheric Science Prize (Macquarie University). |
| 1991: Awarded Clean Air Society Prize for Urban Climatology (Macquarie University). |
| 1991: Awarded Frederick Chong Prize for 200-level Mathematics (Macquarie University). |
| 1990: Awarded Le Fevre Memorial Prize for 100-level Physical Chemistry (Macquarie University). |
| 1989: Dux (valedictorian) of South Grafton High School. |
| US CLIVAR Madden-Julian Oscillation Working Group, 2008: MJO Simulation Diagnostics J. Climate, submitted. |
| Wheeler, M.C., H.H. Hendon, S. Cleland, H. Meinke, and A. Donald, 2008: Impacts of the Madden-Julian oscillation on Australian rainfall and circulation J. Climate, in press. |
| Kiladis, G.N., M.C. Wheeler, P.T. Haertel, K.H. Straub, and P.E. Roundy, 2008: Convectively coupled equatorial waves. Rev. Geophys., accepted and revised. |
| Hendon, H.H., and M.C. Wheeler, 2008: Some space-time spectral analyses of tropical convection and planetary-scale waves. J. Atmos. Sci., in press. |
| Leroy, A., and M.C. Wheeler, 2008: Statistical prediction of weekly tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 3637-3654. |
| Jiang, X., D.E. Waliser, M.C. Wheeler, C. Jones, M.-I. Lee, and S.D. Schubert, 2008: Assessing the skill of an all-season statistical forecast model for the Madden-Julian oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1940-1956. |
| Lo, F., M.C. Wheeler, H. Meinke, and A. Donald, 2007: Probabilistic forecasts of the onset of the north Australian wet season. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3506-3520. |
| Hendon, H.H., D.W.J. Thompson, and M.C. Wheeler, 2007: Australian rainfall and surface temperature variations associated with the Southern Annular Mode. J. Climate., 20, 2452-2467. |
| Hendon, H.H., M.C. Wheeler, and C. Zhang, 2007: Seasonal dependence of the MJO-ENSO relationship. J. Climate, 20, 531-543. |
| McPhaden, M.J., X. Zhang, H.H. Hendon, and M.C. Wheeler, 2006: Large scale dynamics and MJO forcing of ENSO variability. Geophy. Res. Lett., 33, LI6702, doi:10.1029/2006GL026786. |
| Donald, A., H. Meinke, B. Power, A.H.N. Maia, M.C. Wheeler, N. White, R.C. Stone, and J. Ribbe, 2006: Near-global impact of the Madden-Julian oscillation on rainfall. Geophy. Res. Lett., 33, L09704, doi:10.1029/2005GL025155. |
| Lin, J.-L., G.N. Kiladis, B.E. Mapes, K.M. Weickmann, K.R. Sperber, M.C. Wheeler, S.D. Schubert, A. Del Genio, L.J. Donner, S. Emori, J.-F. Gueremy, F. Hourdin, P.J. Rasch, E. Roeckner, and J.F. Scinocca, 2006: Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models. Part I: Convective signals. J. Climate, 19, 2655-2690. |
| Waliser, D., K. Weickmann, R. Dole, S. Schubert, O. Alves, C. Jones, M. Newman, H.-L. Pan, A. Roubicek, S. Saha, C. Smith, H. van den Dool, F. Vitart, M. Wheeler, and J. Whitaker, 2006: The experimental MJO prediction project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 425-431. |
| Bessafi, M., and M.C. Wheeler, 2006: Modulation of south Indian Ocean tropical cyclones by the Madden-Julian oscillation and convectively-coupled equatorial waves. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 638-656. |
| Wheeler, M.C., and J.L. McBride, 2005: Australian-Indonesian monsoon. In: W.K.M. Lau and D.E. Waliser (eds), Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System. Praxis, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pages 125-173. |
| Maharaj, E.A., and M.C. Wheeler, 2005: Forecasting an index of the Madden-oscillation. Int. J. Climatol., 25, 1611-1618. |
| Barlow, M., M. Wheeler, B. Lyon, and, H. Cullen, 2005: Modulation of daily precipitation over southwest Asia by the Madden-Julian oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 3579-3594. |
| Wheeler, M.C., and H.H. Hendon, 2004: An all-season real-time multivariate MJO Index: Development of an index for monitoring and prediction. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1917-1932. |
| Wheeler, M.C., 2002: Tropical Meteorology: Equatorial Waves. In: J. Holton, J. Curry, and J. Pyle (eds), Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences. Academic Press, pages 2313-2325. |
| Gettelman, A., D.J. Seidel, M.C. Wheeler, and R.J. Ross, 2002: Multi-decadal trends in tropical convective available potential energy. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D21), 4606-4613. |
| Wheeler, M., and K.M. Weickmann, 2001: Real-time monitoring and prediction of modes of coherent synoptic to intraseasonal tropical variability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2677-2694. |
| Meehl, G.A., R. Lukas, G.N. Kiladis, K.M. Weickmann, A.J. Matthews, and M. Wheeler, 2001: A conceptual framework for time and space scale interactions in the climate system. Climate Dyn., 17, 753-775. |
| Wheeler, M., G.N. Kiladis, and P.J. Webster, 2000: Large-scale dynamical fields associated with convectively coupled equatorial waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 613-640. |
| Wheeler, M., and G.N. Kiladis, 1999: Convectively coupled equatorial waves: Analysis of clouds and temperature in the wavenumber-frequency domain. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 374-399. |
| Meehl G.A., G.N. Kiladis, K.M. Weickmann, M. Wheeler, D.S. Gutzler, and G.P. Compo. 1996: Modulation of equatorial subseasonal convective episodes by tropical-extratropical interaction in the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15,033-15,049. |
| Kiladis, G.N., and M. Wheeler, 1995: Horizontal and vertical structure of observed tropospheric equatorial Rossby waves. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 22,981-22,997. |
| Gutzler, D.S., G.N. Kiladis, G.A. Meehl, K.M. Weickmann, and M. Wheeler, 1994: The global climate of December 1992-February 1993. Part II: Large-scale variability across the tropical western Pacific during TOGA COARE. J. Climate, 7, 1606-1622. |
| Meehl, G.A., M. Wheeler, and W.M. Washington, 1994: Low-frequency variability and CO2 transient climate change. Part 3. Intermonthly and Interannual variability. Clim. Dyn., 10: 277-303. |
| Lo, F., M.C. Wheeler, and S. Lennox., 2008: Improving predictions of the North Australian wet season: onset and duration. CAWCR Technical Report, No. 1, 33pp. (ISBN: 978-1-921424-44-1) |
| Donald, A., H. Meinke, S. Lennox., M. Wheeler, F. Lo, and A. de H N Maia, 2006: The MJO and agricultural decision making in northern Australia. CLIVAR Exchanges, Vol. 11, No. 3, pages 9 and 13. |
| A.G. Marshall, O. Alves, H.H. Hendon, and M.C. Wheeler, 2006: A wavenumber-frequency spectral analysis of intraseasonal variability in the standard BMRC atmosphere general circulation model. BMRC Research Report, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, No.122, 28pp. |
| B. Timbal, M. Wheeler, S. Chêne, L. Maitrepierre, and A. Leroy, 2004: Impact de la variabilité inter-annuelle et intra-saisonnière sur lactivité cyclonique et la pluviométrie. Acte des Assises Française de la Recherche dans le Pacifique, Nouméa, New Caledonia, 6pp. |
| McBride, J.L., and M.C. Wheeler, 2004: How strong is the relationship between the MJO and the onset of the Australian monsoon? UCLA Tropical Meteorology Newsletter. No. 64. |
| Aug 2008 | "Description of an MJO forecast metric". Invited lecture for Workshop on Multi-scale Predictions of the Asian and African Summer Monsoon. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. |
| Nov 2007 | "MJO forecasting metrics and diagnostics". Keynote presentation for the US-CLIVAR MJO WG workshop on New Approaches to Meet the Challenge of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, California. |
| Jul 2007 | "Extended range prediction of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations". Keynote presentation for the Celebrating the Monsoon conference, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. |
| Feb 2006 | "The MJO and high impact weather". Invited for the WWRP/THORPEX Scientific Conference on Improving the Global Prediction of High Impact Weather, Cape Town, South Africa. |
| Dec 2004 | "Prediction of the MJO". Invited for the 16th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop on the past, present and future of numerical modelling. BMRC Research Report No.104, p.97. |
| Aug 2004 | "The seasonally-independent eastward propagation of the MJO". Invited for the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii. Abstract in supplement to Eos, 13 July 2004, p.15. |
| Nov 2003 | "Techniques and experiences in real time prediction of the MJO: The BMRC perspective". Invited for the ECMWF/CLIVAR Workshop on Simulation and Prediction of Intraseasonal Variability, Reading, UK. Workshop Proceedings, p.211-219. |
| Oct 2003 | "Can observations of large-scale equatorial waves tell us something useful for the parameterization of convection?". Invited for the 15th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop on current issues in the parameterization of convection. BMRC Research Report No.93, p.97-100. |
| Nov 2002 | "The Madden-Julian oscillation and the Java floods of January/February 2002". Invited for the 14th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop on modelling and predicting extreme weather events. BMRC Research Report No.90, p.111-114. |
| Jun 2002 | "Climate variability on multiple time scales: Monsoon bursts and El Nino clash over SE Asia". Presented at an international science roundtable for the media, a side-event to the PrepCom4 meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Bali, Indonesia. Invited as representative of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). |
| Nov 2001 | "Monitoring and Predicting Tropical Intraseasonal Variability: What we're doing at BMRC". Invited for the 13th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop on understanding the climate of Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. BMRC Research Report No.84, p.127-130. |
| Jan 2001 | "A review of synoptic to intraseasonal tropical waves with relevance to forecasting". Invited for the International Workshop on the Dynamics and Forecasting of Tropical Weather Systems, Darwin, Australia. Proceedings, p.114-137. |
| Nov 1999 | "Synoptic to intraseasonal modes of coherent tropical convective variability: Poor simulation, but good monitoring and empirical prediction". Invited for the Laboratory for Atmospheres seminar series at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. |
| Sep 1999 | "Synoptic to intraseasonal modes of coherent tropical convective variability". Invited (by Professor Kerry Emanuel) for the EAPS Department seminar series at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. |
| Feb 1999 | "Convectively coupled equatorial waves". Invited (by Professor Michio Yanai) for the atmospheric dynamics seminar series at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| Apr 1998 | "Equatorial waves in the troposphere: Convectively coupled waves and the peak projection response to deep convective heating". Invited (by Professor Andy Majda) for the Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Colloquium series at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York. |
| "How does the impact of the MJO on the Australian monsoon vary with the phase of ENSO?". Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, July 2008. |
| "Statistical prediction of weekly TC activity in the Southern Hemisphere: How did it perform in 2006/07 & 2007/08?". Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, July 2008. |
| "Using the MJO to make statistical predictions of weekly TC activity in the Southern Hemisphere". 15th National AMOS Conference, Geelong, Australia, January 2008. |
| "Using the MJO to make statistical predictions of weekly TC activity in the Southern Hemisphere". US-CLIVAR MJO Workshop, Irvine, California, November 2007. |
| "Monsoon magic: Predicting the onset, duration, and variability of the northern wet season". Special session on 'Managing for Climate Variability', 18th Queensland Landcare Conference, Mackay, Australia, August 2007. |
| "Quantifying the impact of the Madden-Julian oscillation on Australian rainfall". 17th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum, Canberra, Australia, September 2006. |
| "Improving prediction of the northern Australian wet season". Managing Climate Variability Program (MCVP) National Forum - 'Climate Connect 2006', Adelaide, March 2006. Extended abstract available from MCVP. |
| "Experiences at BMRC in simulating and predicting the MJO". NASA/CLIVAR Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Forecasting of Subseasonal Variability, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, June 2003. NASA/CP-2003-104606, Vol.25 |
| "The Madden-Julian oscillation, the Java floods of January/February 2002, and other extremes in weekly rainfall". 7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2003. Preprints, p.156-158. |
| "An all-season real-time multivariate MJO index: Development of the index for monitoring and prediction". Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2002. |
| "An all-season real-time multivariate MJO index: Development of the index for monitoring and prediction in Australia". Workshop on the prospects for improved forecasts of weather and short-term climate variability on subseasonal (2 week to 2 month) time scales, Mitchellville, Maryland, USA, April 2002. NASA/TM-2002-104606, Vol.23, p.94-97. |
| "Seasonal cycle of the Madden-Julian oscillation in the Australian region". 9th National AMOS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 2002. |
| "Monitoring and predicting tropical intraseasonal atmospheric variability". 14th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum, Darwin, Australia, September 2001. |
| "Real-time monitoring and prediction of modes of coherent synoptic to intraseasonal tropical variability". 25th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, IRI, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, U.S.A., October 2000. |
| "Modeling the Madden-Julian oscillation and convectively-coupled Kelvin waves". 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ft. Lauderdale, U.S.A., May 2000. Presented by B. Mapes. |
| "Real-time monitoring of modes of coherent synoptic to intraseasonal tropical variability". Joint session of 17th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting and 8th Conference on Climate Variations, Denver, U.S.A., September 1999. Preprints, p.24-29. |
| "Large-scale dynamical fields associated with convectively-coupled equatorial waves". 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Dallas, U.S.A., January 1999. Preprints, p.356-359. |
| "The organization of convection and circulation variability associated with convectively-coupled equatorial waves: Cases during TOGA COARE". COARE '98 Conference, Boulder, U.S.A., July 1998. Proceedings, p.413-414. |
| "Convectively-coupled equatorial waves for the Australasian region". Australasian Atmospheres and Oceans '98 Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, February 1998. |
| "Convectively-coupled equatorial waves". 22nd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Berkeley, U.S.A., October 1997. Proceedings, p.128-131. |
| "Convectively-coupled equatorial waves: Another analysis of clouds in the wavenumber-frequency domain". 11th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Tacoma, U.S.A., June 1997. Preprints, p.1-5. |
| "Tropospheric equatorial Rossby and mixed Rossby-gravity waves: Observations during TOGA COARE". 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Collins, U.S.A., May 1997. Preprints, p.300-301. |
| "Tropospheric equatorial Rossby and Mixed Rossby-gravity waves: A case study". 21st Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Huntsville, U.S.A., October 1996. Proceedings, p.142-145. |
| "Tropospheric equatorial Rossby waves: Observations and modelling". 20th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Seattle, U.S.A., October 1995. Proceedings, p.362-365. |
| "A westward propagating near 20-day atmospheric fluctuation observed during TOGA COARE". TOGA COARE International Data Workshop, Toulouse, France, August 1994. Summary Report, p.158. |
| "Seasonal trends in SST and convection over the west-central equatorial Pacific during TOGA COARE: Role of intraseasonal atmospheric variability." TOGA COARE International Data Workshop, Toulouse, France, August 1994. First author was K. Weickmann. Summary Report, p.156-157. |
| 2008- | Supervisor of Li Shi, CAWCR staff member. |
| 2008 | Proposal awarded: L&WA Managing Climate Variability Program. Scoping the Northern Australia Seasonal Climate Knowledge. I am leading the CAWCR component of this proposal, with Prof. Roger Stone (Univ. S. Queensland) the milestone leader. 6 months, $100K multi-institution award. |
| 2007 | Supervisor of Frederic Ferry, Meteo-France student undertaking a 5-month full-time research project at BMRC. Exploring the mechanism for the MJO's modulation of tropical cyclones. |
| 2006- | Supervisor of Fiona Lo, externally-funded BMRC/CAWCR staff member. |
| 2006-08 | Proposal awarded: L&WA Managing Climate Variability Program. Improving Prediction of the North Australian Wet Season. Co-PIs: H. Meinke (QDPI&F) and M.C. Wheeler (BMRC/CAWCR). 2 years, $500K multi-institution award. |
| 2006 | Co-supervisor of Peter Omeny, Kenyan Meteorological Service and Masters student at University of Nairobi. Intraseasonal prediction of east African rainfall. |
| 2004 | Supervisor of Anne Leroy, Meteo-France student who undertook a 5-month full-time research project at BMRC. Statistical prediction of the weekly tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere. |
| Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE); Darwin, Australia; 2006. |
| Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere - Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA-COARE); Australia and Solomon Islands; 1992-1993. |
| Lectured on statistical intraseasonal TC prediction to 7th WMO Southern Hemisphere TC Workshop, September 2007. |
| Lectured on monsoons and monsoon variability to Monash Univeristy course GES2860/ATM2250, September 2006 and September 2007. |
| Lectured on the MJO, Southern Annular Mode (SAM), and Indian Ocean influences on Australia, to Bureau climate course, December 2005. |
| Lectured on equatorial waves and the MJO for Monash University's winter school on tropical meteorology, July 2003. |
| Lectured on tropical meteorology to the Bureau of Meteorology's advanced forecasters course, November 2002. |
| Lectured on the influence of large-scale tropical waves on TCs at the 5th WMO Southern Hemisphere TC Workshop, September 2002. |
| Lectured on intraseasonal variability to Bureau of Meteorology climate course, May 2002. |
| Lectured on equatorial waves to Bureau of Meteorology forecasters course, May 2001. |
| 2008: Primary author and lead contact for a letter sent to all Operational Modelling Centres requesting their contribution to the US-CLIVAR MJO forecasting project, as endorsed by the CAS/WCRP Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE). |
| 2007: Leroy-Wheeler TC activity prediction scheme goes operational at Meteo-France. |
| 2007: Wheeler-Hendon MJO index endorsed by the US-CLIVAR MJO Working Group as an international standard. |
| 2004-present: Forecast contributor, MJO Experimental Prediction Project. |
| 2004-present: Member of the Joint Committee on Climate Operations and Research (JCCOR; previously NBIC). |
| 2002-2003: Member of NCC-BMRC focus team on status of 2002/03 El Nino. |
| 2001-present: Regular presenter and contributor to the Australian Monthly Climate Prediction Meeting (previously the SCO meeting). |
| 2001-present: Development and ongoing maintenance of the Research Centre's on-line "Current Climate Charts". |
| 1999: Wheeler-Weickmann "Coherent Tropical OLR Modes" web-page becomes operational. |
| Interviews on ABC national radio and SBS national TV news (regarding TCs and climate), January 2008. |
| Interviewed for "Monsoon Magic" article in CliMag, Edition 13, June 2007. |
| Interviews on Indonesian radio and TV (with interpreters, on the MJO), June 2002. |
| Media release, "Advance Warning of Storms and Cyclones with New Technique", June 2002. |
| American Geophysical Union, 2002-present. |
| American Meteorological Society, 1994-2000, 2005-present. |
| Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 1992-present. |
| Senior Emergency Floor Warden, 9th floor, 2006-present. |
| Web-master for Climate Forecasting Group (BMRC), 2001-2007. |
| Emergency Warden, 2003-2006. |