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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS / BOOK CHAPTERS

Drosdowsky, W. 1984: Structure of a Northern Australian Squall Line System. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 32, 177-183.

Drosdowsky, W., and G.J. Holland, 1987: North Australian Cloud Lines. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 2645-2659.

Drosdowsky, W., G.J. Holland, and R.K. Smith, 1989: Structure and Evolution of Cloud Lines Observed During AMEX Phase I. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 1181-1192.

Zhang, G.Z., W. Drosdowsky, and N. Nicholls, 1990: Environmental influences on northwest Pacific tropical cyclone numbers. Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 4, 180-188.

Drosdowsky, W., and M. Williams, 1991: The Southern Oscillation in the Australian region. I: Anomalies at the extremes of the oscillation. J. Climate, 4, 619-638.

Drosdowsky, W., 1993: An analysis of Australian seasonal rainfall anomalies: 1950-1987. I: Spatial patterns. Intl. J. Climatol., 13, 1-30.

Drosdowsky, W., 1993: An analysis of Australian seasonal rainfall anomalies: 1950-1987. II: Temporal variability and teleconnection patterns. Intl. J. Climatol., 13, 111-149.

Drosdowsky, W., 1993: Potential predictability of winter rainfall over southern and eastern Australia using Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 43, 1-6.

Drosdowsky, W., 1994: Analogue (non-linear) forecasts of the Southern Oscillation Index time series. Wea and Forec, 9, 78-84.

Drosdowsky, W., 1996: Variability of the Australian Summer Monsoon at Darwin: 1957-1992. J. Climate,9, 85-96.

Nicholls, N., B. Lavery, C. Frederiksen, W. Drosdowsky, and S. Torok, 1996: Recent apparent changes in relationships between the El Niño - Southern Oscillation and Australian rainfall and temperature. Geophys. Res. Letts., 23, 3357-3360.

Nicholls, N., W. Drosdowsky, and B. Lavery, 1997. Australian rainfall variability and change. Weather, 52, 66-72

Nicholls, N., W. Drosdowsky, C.S. Frederiksen, R. Kleeman and N.R. Smith, 1997 : Seasonal Climate Predictions. In Climate Prediction for Agricultural and Resource Management, Eds. R.K. Munro and L.M. Leslie, Bureau of Resource Sciences, 45-60.

Drosdowsky, W., and R.J. Allan, 1999: The Potential for Improved Statistical Seasonal Climate Forecasts. In Applications of Seasonal Climate Forecasting in Agricultural and Natural ecosystems - the Australian Experience, Eds. G. Hammer, N. Nicholls and C. Mitchell, Kluwer Academic, pp 77-87. (HTML version)

Drosdowsky, W. and L.E. Chambers, 2001: Near global scale sea surface temperature anomalies as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall. J. Climate, 14, 1677-1687.

Frederiksen, C.S., Zhang, H., Balgovind, R., Nicholls, N., Drosdowsky, W., and Chambers, L.E., 2001: Dynamical seasonal forecasts during the 1997/98 ENSO using persisted SST anomalies. J. Climate, 14, 2675-2695.

Drosdowsky, W., 2002: SST Phases and Australian Rainfall. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 51, 1-12. (HTML version)   (PDF Version)

Drosdowsky, W., and Zhang, H.Q., 2002: Verification of spatial fields. In "Environmental Forecast Verification: A practitioners guide", I. Jolliffe and D.B.Stephenson,  Eds. Wiley, London. (in progress).
 

RESEARCH REPORTS / MISCELLANEOUS
 

Drosdowsky, W. 1988: Lagged relationships between the Southern Oscillation and the troposphere over Australia. BMRC Research Report No. 13. 201 pp. Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Drosdowsky, W. 1989: Climatology and Structure of North Australian Cloud Lines. Unpubl. MSc Thesis, Dept of Mathematics, Monash University.

Drosdowsky, W., 1990: A simple index of the second POP component of the Southern Oscillation. TO-AN, No 51, Spring 1990, 13-15.

Frederiksen, C.S., W. Drosdowsky, R.C. Balgovind and N. Nicholls, 1990 : Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures and Australian rainfall. World Climate Research Program Report, WCRP-43, 229-239, WMO Publication.

Drosdowsky, W. 1993: Atlas of Australian monthly rainfall: 1910-1991. Unpubl. BMRC Climate Group Report.

Nicholls, N., W. Drosdowsky, C.S. Frederiksen, R. Kleeman and N.R. Smith, 1997. Seasonal Climate Predictions. In: Climate Prediction for Agricultural and Resource Management, R.K. Munro and L.M. Leslie, eds., Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, pp 45-60.

Drosdowsky, W. and L.E. Chambers, 1998: Near global scale sea surface temperature anomaly patterns as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall. BMRC Research Report No. 65. 39 pp. Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Chambers, L.E., Drosdowsky, W. 1999. Australian seasonal rainfall prediction using near global sea surface temperatures.  AMOS Bulletin 12(3):51-55.
 

CONFERENCE PAPERS
 

Climatic Influences on Comfort in the Northern Territory. Presented at the Menzies Foundation Conference on Living in the North, Darwin, Northern Territory, May 1981.

An Overview of the North Australian Cloud Line. Presented at the 2nd Australian Conference on Tropical Meteorology, Perth, Western Australia, July 1985.

North Australian Cloud Lines, Definitions and Evolution. (with Greg J. Holland). Poster prepared for 2nd International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Wellington, New Zealand, December 1986.

The structure and propagation of north Australian cloud lines: Results from AMEX Phase I. (with Greg J. Holland). Third AMS Mesoscale Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 1987.

Structure of Cloud lines During AMEX Phase I. (with Greg J. Holland). Presented at the International Conference on Tropical Meteorology, Brisbane, Queensland, July 1988.

Rainfall, atmospheric circulation and sea surface temperature anomalies in the Australian region. Ist annual BMRC modelling workshop 'The role of sea surface temperatures in numerical modelling of the atmosphere'. Melbourne, July 1989.

Global sea surface temperatures and Australian rainfall. (with N. Nicholls, P. Rayner, N. Smith, and R. Balgovind). Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, November 1989.

Non-linear time series forecasting of the Southern Oscillation Index. 6th Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum, Dunedin, New Zealand, February 1991.

Evolution of Southern Oscillation anomalies over the West Pacific and Indian Oceans. Conference on South Pacific Environments: Interactions with Weather and Climate, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1991.

Observed and modelled MSL pressure - Australian rainfall relationships. (with Milton Speer). 3rd annual BMRC modelling workshop 'Modelling weather and Climate', Melbourne, November 1991.

An analysis of Australian seasonal rainfall anomalies: 1950 - 1987. International Conference on the Physical Causes of Drought and Desertification, Melbourne, December 1991.

Relationships of global SST patterns to Australian rainfall variations. International COADS Workshop, Boulder, CO, January 1992.

Developments in Australia - New Zealand temperature data base. International Temperature Workshop, Boulder, CO, January 1992.

Air - Sea interaction in the South Tasman Sea. 4th Air - Sea Interaction Conference,
Melbourne, February 1992.

Intra-seasonal rainfall variability over Northern Australia. 7th Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum, Cairns, Queensland, July 1992.

Interannual and intraseasonal variability of the Australian summer monsoon. Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Hobart, March-April 1993.

Non-linear forecasts of the Southern Oscillation Index time series. International Conference on Applications of Time Series Analysis in Astronomy and Meteorology, Padua, Italy, September 1993.

Forecasting the winter 'break' over Southern Australia. 8th Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum, Toowoomba, Queensland, February 1994.

Wavelet analysis of some meteorological time series. 12th Australian Statistical Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, July 1994

The Winter 'Break' over Southern Australia. 9th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum, Wirrina Cove, South Australia, February 1995.

Analogue forecasts of the southern oscillation index time series. TOGA International Scientific Conference, Melbourne, April 1995.

Mechanism of the Onset of the Australian Summer Monsoon. TOGA International Scientific Conference, Melbourne, April 1995.

Current developments in Statistical Seasonal Rainfall Prediction in Australia. 6th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (6IMSC), Galway, Ireland, 19-23 June 1995.

"Existing and prospective approaches to seasonal forecasting for Southwest Western Australia". Paper presented at workshop on Climate Variability and Water Resources in South-West Western Australia, Perth, January 1996, and at the Western Australian Regional Office, February 1996.

Drosdowsky, W., L.E. Chambers. 1996. Seasonal Climate Outlooks - Beyond ENSO.
(Abstract) In: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union Vol. 77(22). Supplement.
Paper presented at 1996 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Brisbane, July 1996.

Drosdowsky, W., L.E. Chambers. "Use of near global sea surface temperature anomaly patterns as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall", Fifth International Conference Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Pretoria, South Africa, April 1997.

Drosdowsky, W., "Intraseasonal variability of the Australian summer monsoon rainfall". Fifth International Conference Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Pretoria, South Africa, April 1997.

Drosdowsky, W., L.E. Chambers. "Use of near global sea surface temperature anomaly patterns as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall", 22nd Climate Diagnostics Workshop Berkeley, California, October 1997.

Drosdowsky, W., "Climatology and intraseasonal variability of the Australian summer monsoon", 22nd Climate Diagnostics Workshop Berkeley, California, October 1997.

Chambers, L.E., D.A. Jones, W. Drosdowsky, M. Haylock, & N. Nicholls, "Climate Variability & Predictability For South Western Australia" , 9th Environmetrics Conference. July 1998. Conrad Jupiters, Australia.

Nicholls, N., Chambers, L., Haylock, M., Frederiksen, C., Jones, D., Drosdowsky, W., 1999: Climate
variability and predictability for south-west Western Australia. Pp 1-52 in 'Towards Understanding Climate
Variability in south western Australia', Research reports on the First Phase of the Indian Ocean Climate
Initiative, October 1999.

Frederiksen, C.S., Zhang, H., Balgovind, R., Nicholls, N., Drosdowsky, W., Chambers, L.E. 2001.
Experimental dynamical seasonal forecasts during the 1997/98 ENSO using persisted SST anomalies, 8th
Scientific Assembly of IAMAS, 10-18 July, 2001, Innsbruck, Austria. 



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