Alan Seed

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• Phone:+613 9669 4591

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Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research

Bureau of Meteorolology

GPO Box 1289K

Melbourne, Victoria, 3001

Australia

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Education

• BSc Engineering (Civil), University of Natal, 1979
• MSc Engineering (Agricultural), University of Natal, 1986
• PhD McGill University, 1989

Interests and Research:

My research interests are related to measuring and forecasting of rainfall for hydrological applications. I work on quantitative radar rainfall estimation algorithms and use these estimations for short-term quantitative and ensemble rainfall forecasts.

Recent Publications:

Jordan, P., A.W. Seed, and G.L. Austin, 2000. Sampling errors in radar estimates of rainfall. J. Geophys. Res., 105 (D2), 2247-2257.

Seed, A.W., C. Draper, R. Srikanthan, and M. Menabde, 2000. A multiplicative broken-line model for time series of mean areal rainfall, Water Resour. Res., 36(8), 2395-2399.

Gray, W.R., and A.W. Seed, 2000. The characterisation of orographic rainfall. J. of Meteorol. Appl., 7, 105-119.

Seed, A.W., 2003. A dynamic and spatial scaling approach to advection forecasting. J. Appl. Meteorol, 42(3), 381-388.

Jordan, P., A.W. Seed, and P. E. Weinnman, 2003. A stochastic model of radar measurement errors in rainfall accumulations at catchment scale. J. Hydrometeorol., 4(5), 841-855.

Chumchean, S., A. Sharma, and A.W. Seed, 2003. Radar rainfall error variance and its impact on radar rainfall calibration. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 28, 27-39.

Pierce, C., E. Ebert, A.W Seed, N. Fox, M. Sleigh, C. Collier, N. Donaldson, J. Wilson, R. Roberts, and C. Mueller, 2004. The Nowcasting of precipitation during Sydney 2000: an appraisal of the QPF algorithms. Weather and Forecasting, 19(1), 7-21.

Bowler, N., C. Pierce, and A.W. Seed, 2004. Development of a precipitation nowcasting algorithm based upon optical flow techniques, J. Hydrology, 288, 74-91.

Seed, A.W., 2004. Modelling and forecasting rainfall in space and time. In: Scales in Hydrology and Water Management, IAHS Publ. 287. 137-152.

Chumchean, S., A.W. Seed, and A. Sharma, 2004. Application of Scaling in Radar Reflectivity for Correcting Range-Dependent Bias in Climatological Radar Rainfall Estimates, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 21(10),1545-1556.

Yu, B., A.W. Seed, and T. Malone, 2005. Integration of weather radar into a raster GIS framework for improved flood estimation. Atmos. Sci. Let. 6, 66-70.

Chumchean, S., A.W. Seed, and A. Sharma, 2006. An Integrated Approach to Error Correction for Real-Time Radar-Rainfall Estimation. J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 23(1), 67-79.

Bowler, N., C. Pierce, and A.W. Seed, 2006. STEPS: A probabilistic precipitation forecasting scheme which merges an extrapolation nowcast with downscaled NWP. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 132, 2127-2155.

Lee, G, A.W. Seed, and I. Zawadzki, 2007. Modelling the variability of drop size distributions in space and time. J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatology, 46, 742-756.

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