Published work by the Climate Change section of NCC

Jones, P.D., Groisman, P.Ya., Coughlan, M., Plummer, N., Wang, W.C. and Karl, T.R. 1990. Assessment of urbanisation effects in time series of surface air temperature over land. Nature, 347, 169-172.

Plummer, N. 1991. Annual mean temperature anomalies over eastern Australia. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 4, 42-44.

Karl, T.R., Jones, P.D., Knight, R.W., Kukla, G., Plummer, N., Razuvayev, V., Gallo, K.P., Lindseay, J. and Peterson, T.C. 1993: A new perspective on recent global warming. Asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74, 1007-1023.

Karl, T.R., Easterling, D., Peterson, T.C., Baker, C.B., Jones, P.D., Kukla, G., Plummer, N., Razuvaev, V.N. and Horton, B. 1994. An update on the asymmetric day/night land surface warming. In: Sixth Conference on Climate Variations, Jan 23-28 1994, Nashville, Tennessee, American Meteorological Society, 170-2

Lin, Z., Plummer, N. and Torok, S. 1993. Reconstructing a temperature time series for a station in southeastern Australia. Preprints of the Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, 29 March - 2 April, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 201-202 (Poster presentation).

Plummer, N. and Wright, B. 1993. A discussion of the influences on surface temperature over eastern Australia during 1992. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 6, 90-6.

Torok, S., Lavery, B., Plummer, N., Kariko, A. and Nicholls, N. 1993. Refining Australia's historical climate record. Preprints of the Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, American Meteorological Society, 29 March - 2 April, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 296-297 (Poster presentation).

Plummer, N. 1994. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (spring 1992): Warm Pacific conditions remain. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 43, 59-67.

Barrell, S., Plummer, N. and Sabin, G. 1994. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology: data, systems and services to the rural community. In: Agricultural Systems and Information Technology: Climate and Risk, Bureau of Resource Sciences, 6, 29-34.

Plummer, N., Lin, Z. and Torok, S. 1995. Trends in the diurnal temperature range over Australia since 1951. Atmospheric Research, 37, 79-86.

Karl, T.R., Knight, R.W. and Plummer, N. 1995. Trends in high-frequency climate variability in the twentieth century. Nature, 377, 217-20.

Plummer, N. 1996. Temperature variability and extremes over Australia: part 1 - recent observed changes. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 45, 233-250.

Plummer, N. 1996. Recent changes in temperature variability and extremes over Australia. MSc (minor) thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.

Wright, W.J., deHoedt, G., Plummer, N., Jones, D.A. and Chitty, S. 1996. Low frequency climate variability over Australia. In: Conference Proceedings of The Second Australian Conference on Agricultural Meteorology. The University of Queensland, 1-4 October 1996. Commonwealth of Australia, Australia.

Salinger, M.J., Allan, R., Bindoff, N., Hannah, J., Lavery, B.M., Lin, Z., Lindesay, J., Nicholls, N., Plummer, N. and Torok, S.J. 1996. Observed variability and change in climate and sea-level in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. In: Greenhouse - Coping with climate change (Bouma, W.J., Pearman, G.I. and Manning, M.R. eds), CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.

Collins, D.A. and Karoly, D.J. 1996. Eddy transports in a greenhouse climate simulation. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 45, 113-122.

Morris, J., Simmonds, I. and Plummer, N. 1997. Stratification of Melbourne's urban heat island by synoptic conditions as determined from 25 years of climate record. Preprints of the Fifth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, April 1997, Pretoria.

Easterling, D. R., Horton, B., Jones, P. D., Peterson, T. C., Karl, T. R., Parker, D. E., Salinger, M. J., Razuvayev, V., Plummer, N., Jamason, P. and Folland, C. K. 1997. Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe. Science, 277, 364-367.

Plummer, N., Trewin, B. C., Hicks, R., Nicholls, N., Torok, S. J., Lavery, B. M. and Leighton, R. M. 1997. Australian data for documenting changes in climate extremes. In: CLIVAR/GCOS/WMO Workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes, Asheville, NC, USA, 3-7 June 1997.

Plummer, N., Nicholls, N., Lavery, B. M., Leighton, R. M. and Trewin, B. C. 1997. Twentieth century trends in Australian Climate Extremes Indices. In: CLIVAR/GCOS/WMO Workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes, Asheville, NC, USA, 3-7 June 1997.

Collins, D.A. 1997. Seasonal climate summary southern hemisphere (winter 1996): the continuation of an enhanced equatorial Walker circulation. Australian Meteorological Magazine, 46, 67-74.

Collins, D.A., Della-Marta, P.M., Trewin, B.C. and Plummer, N. 2001. Trends in annual frequencies of extreme tempera ture events in Australia. Aust. Met. Mag. 49, 277-292.

Other major work:

Collins, D.A. 1994. Investigations of greenhouse climate change simulations. MSc Thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Australia (unpublished).

Plummer, N. 1995. Recent changes in temperature variability and extremes over Australia. MSc (minor) Thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Australia (unpublished).