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Gary Brassington

Gary Brassington Contact Details:
  • Email : G.Brassington@bom.gov.au
  • Phone: +61-(0)3-9669-4170
  • Fax : +61-(0)3-9669-4660
  • Postal Address:
    Bureau of Meteorology.
    BMRC.
    GPO Box 1289k,
    Melbourne, Victoria 3001
    Australia
Personal Data:

Education:

  • PhD in Applied Mathematics (2000)
    University of New South Wales
    Dissertation: Accurate methods for a free-surface, nonhydrostatic Ocean Model
  • BSc (Hons.) Mathematics (1995)
    University of New South Wales

Research Interests:

  • Ocean prediction/forecasting
  • Coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling
  • Data assimilation
  • Ocean model development

Research:


Selected Publications:

  • Brassington, G. B., T. Pugh, C. Spillman, E. Schulz, H. Beggs, A. Schiller and P. R. Oke, 2007: BLUElink> Development of operational oceanography and servicing in Australia, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 39, 151-164
  • Oke, P. R., G. B. Brassington, D. A. Griffin and A. Schiller, 2008: The Bluelink ocean data assimilation system (BODAS), Ocean Modelling, 21, 46-70.
  • Schiller, A., P. R. Oke, G. B. Brassington, M. Entel, R. Fiedler, D. A. Griffin, J. Mansbridge, 2008: Eddy-resolving ocean circulation in the Asian-Australian region inferred from an ocean reanalysis effort, Progress in Oceanography, 76, 334-365
  • Brassington, G. B., P. R. Oke and T. Pugh, 2006: BLUElink> Operational ocean prediction in Australia, pp87-95, in Advances in Geosciences, Volume 5: Ocean and Atmospheres (OA), Eds. H. Choi and M. Speers, World Scientific Publishing.
  • Oke, P. R., A. Schiller, D. A. Griffin and G. B. Brassington, 2005: Ensemble data assimilation for an eddy-resolving ocean model of the Australian region, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, 3301-3311
  • Brassington, G. B., G. Warren, N. Smith, A. Schiller and P. R. Oke, 2005: Progress on operational ocean prediction for Australia. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 18, 104-109.
  • Brassington, G. B., 2004: Fourth-order, conservative, control-volume finite-differences for boundary cells. J. Numerical Heat Transfer Part B, 45, 449-474.
  • Sanderson, B. and G. Brassington, 2002: Fourth-and Fifth-order finite-difference methods applied to a control-volume ocean model, J. Atmospheric. and Oceanic Technology., 19, 1424-1441.
  • Brassington, G. B., 2000: Optimal numerical strategy for unsteady natural convection in two and three dimensions, ANZIAM J., 42(E), C291-C316
  • Brassington G. and B. Sanderson, 1999: Semi-Lagrangian and COSMIC advection in flows with rotation and deformation, Atmosphere-Ocean, 37, 369-388.
  • Sanderson, B. and G. Brassington, 1998: Accuracy in the context of a control-volume model, Atmosphere-Ocean, 36, 355-384.
  • Brassington, G. B., 1997: Modal Evolution of the Southern Oscillation. J. Climate., 10, 1021-1034.


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