Professor Andy Pitman

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Professor Andy Pitman
Co-Director, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)

Mathews Building, Level 4
Phone: +61 2 9385-7075 - Fax: +61 2 9385-8969 - Email: a.pitman@unsw.edu.au

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PhD positions available

Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Professor Pitman. 

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Funding

Internal funding

1991
MURG Simulation of droughts in GCMs $1,800

1992
MURG Seasonality parameterisation in GCMs $3,600

1993
MURG Role of the land surface in the development of East Coast Lows $6,000

1994
MURG Validation of a land surface scheme against Australian stream flow data and a catchment hydrological model $2,800

1995
MURG The role of El Nino in controlling flood and drought dominated regimes in NSW: (with Dr. G. Brierley) $3,000

1995
MURG Generalisation of a new land surface scheme via off-line validation $7,000

1996
MURG The impact of climate change on air pollution potential in the Sydney Basin (with Dr. P.K. Love) $5,000

1997
MURG Investigating dynamic vegetation in a land surface scheme $4,000

1998
MURG Testing a land surface scheme within the global soil wetness project $5,200

1999
MURG The impact of frozen soil moisture on continental scale runoff $3,613

2000
MURG Evaluation of a land surface scheme using a data set including carbon $6,500

2000
MURG Regional climate modelling over Australia: sensitivity to changes in land cover $6,400

2001
MURG The significance of land cover change on the Australian regional climate $8,000

2001
MURG Incorporation of physiological and structural feedbacks in the simulation of the impacts of land cover change $3,840

2002
MURG The simulation of storms over the Sydney Basin using RAMS $12,066

2002
MURG The sensitivity of Australian climate change to the parameterization of the surface energy balance $8,048

1993-5
Small ARC: Scaleless land surface schemes for atmospheric models $30,390

1992-4
Small ARC: Incorporating continental carbon exchange into a global climate model (with Prof. Henderson-Sellers) $53,670

1995
Small ARC: The Project for the Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterisation Schemes (with Prof. Henderson-Sellers) $21,000 

1996-7
Small ARC: Assessing the parameterisation of heterogeneity in land surface schemes $28,782

1998
Small ARC: Assessing uncertainty in the simulation of anthropogenically induced Climate change resulting from the parameterisation of land surface processes $13,000

1999
Small ARC: Land-use change and its impact on the global climate $10,247

2000
Small ARC: The role of land-use change at increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide $13,004        

2001
Small ARC: Testing the robustness of the multi-criteria method in the calibration of a land surface model $10,499

2003
MURDG  The impact of land cover change on extremes of weather and climate over Australia $15,960

2005
MURGD  The impact of global warming on climate extremes over Australia $10,000

External grants

1996-8
Large ARC:The Project for the Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterisation Schemes (with Prof. Henderson-Sellers) $280,000

1998
Bilateral Analysis of European land surface scheme results in comparison with results from the Bureau of Meterology Climate models under 1 and 2 x CO2 conditions $5,050

1998-9 
ASAC (Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, project ASAC 1071), Palaeoenvironments of the Antarctic coast, from 50E to 120E. CI: D.Gore, Other investigators: A.McMinn, D. Zwartz, H. Kirkup, M.Melles, E.Rhodes, D. Roberts, C. Lehmann, A. J. Pitman.  Grant awarded 1998: $7,500 plus 4 berths worth equivalent of $65,000 $80,500

1999-01
Large ARC: The Project for the Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterisation Schemes (with Prof. Henderson-Sellers) $190,000

1999-01
Australian Greenhouse Office (for costs incurred as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change $15,000

2003
Seed-funding: ARC Network An Australian Climate System Network $20,000

2003
Seed-funding: ARC Network Australia-New Zealand Research Network for Vegetation Function Investigators (with many others)$20,000

2005-9
ARC Network: An Australian Earth System Science Network (RN0460181) $1.95 m

2005-9
ARC Network -New Zealand Research Network for Vegetation Function Prof. Mark Westoby and others including A.J. Pitman (RN0459908) $2.0 m

2004-7
Australian Greenhouse Office (for costs incurred as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change $48,400

2006-8
Do terrestrial processes intensify Australian droughts $240,000

2005
Asia-Pacific Network: The degraded ecosystem restoration in the arid and semi-arid Northern China-Mongolia Region US$20,000

2006-9
ARC Linkage: Re-engineering dynamic vegetation models for Australia

Infrastructure grants

1993
Mech. A Atmospheric Science Computing. Pitman, Cleugh, Geerts, Hyde and de Dear (written & administered by Pitman) $18,000

1996
RIBG Atmospheric Science Computing. Pitman, Love, de Dear, Beggs and Holbrook (written & coordinated by Pitman) $42,000

1998
ARC Inf. High performance computing in NSW (large number of participants) $700,000 

1999
RIBG Atmospheric Science Computing. Pitman, de Dear, Beggs and Holbrook (written & coordinated by Pitman) $63,997

2003
LIEF Development of a High Performance Computing Cluster for ac3 Research (Prof LC Botten Prof RC McPhedran Prof BA Pailthorpe Dr RK Standish Prof MN Paddon-Row Prof AJ Pitman Prof AC Tsoi $375,000

2006
LIEF A large memory, high performance computing system for the ac3 Research Consortium (LE0668467). Prof LC Botten; Prof RC McPhedran; Prof L Radom; Prof CM Stampfl; Dr RJ Bursill; Prof E Leonardi; A/Prof RS Womersley; Prof AJ Pitman; A/Prof TR Marchant; A/Prof MJ Ford $620,000

 

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