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A/PROF KEVIN WALSH



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN ATMOSPHERIC & OCEANIC
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/%7Ekwalsh/
Work: 8344 6523
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 346
Level: 03
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Tropical meteorology, climate change, climate variability Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States National Hurricane Center Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Harvard University 31-Dec-1980
Master of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1983
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society President 01-Jan-1987
Member American Meteorological Society Member 01-Jan-1983
Member American Geophysical Union Member 01-Jan-1999
Member The Planetary Society Victorian Coordinator 01-Jan-1998

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Australian Museum Sherman Eureka Prize With CSIRO Climate Impact Group 01-Jan-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Regional Tropical Cyclone Hazard for Infrastructure Adaptation to Climate Change Chief Investigator CSIRO FLAGSHIP COLLABORATIVE FUND Climate Adaptation Flagship 01/05/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
ASSESSMENT OF THE VULNERABILITY OF AUSTRALIA'S ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE Chief Investigator PB ASSOCIATES 01/03/2005
VALIDATION OF METEOROLOGICAL DATA AT A PROPOSED SOLAR ENERGY FACILITY SITE Chief Investigator ENVIROMISSION LIMITED 01/06/2005
AUSTRALIA'S COASTAL VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE Chief Investigator CUMULUS 12/04/2006
CAUSES OF TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN REGION Chief Investigator CSIRO 01/07/2007
CYCLONE RISK IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Chief Investigator AIR WORLDWIDE CORPORATION 11/06/2008
NACCS PEER REVIEW Chief Investigator WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD 09/12/2008
PACIFIC CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PROGRAM Chief Investigator CSIRO 01/07/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • The ability of climate models to generate tropical cyclones: implications for prediction
    Year: 2008
    Book: Climate Change Research Progress
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A technique to determine the radius of maximum wind of a tropical cyclone
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Weather and Forecasting
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 1007-1015
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  • Climate change effects on snow conditions in mainland Australia and adaptation at ski resorts through snowmaking
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Climate Research
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 255-270
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  • Southeast Australian thunderstorms: are they increasing in frequency?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Meteorological Magazine
    Volume: 57
    Page numbers: 1-11
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  • Tropical cyclone trends in the Australian region.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1-17
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Reports

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Objectively determined resolution-dependent threshold criteria for the detection of tropical cyclones in climate models and reanalyses
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Climate
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 2307-2314
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Reports

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Objective detection of tropical cyclones in climate models
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
    Conference Publication: Objective detection of tropical cyclones in climate models
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society(Boston)
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Reports

  • Vulnerability to climate change of Australia's coastal zone: Analysis of gaps in methods, data and system threshold


    Year: 2006
    Customer: Australian Greenhouse Office
    Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service(Canberra)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • The impact of climate change on hailstorms in southeastern Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Climatology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1933-1952
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  • Water World, Glacier World, Dust World
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
    Volume: 85
    Issue: September 2005
    Page numbers: 36-42
    Publisher: Dell Magazines(Connecticut)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Climate Change, Tropical Cyclones and ENSO
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
    Conference Publication: 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society(Boston)
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  • Simulating the effect of climate change on tropical cyclones: current issues
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM 05International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making
    Conference Publication: Modelling and Simultation Society of Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 170-176
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • Simulating the effect of climate change on tropical cyclones: current issues.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM05
    Conference Publication: MODSIM05
    Page numbers: 170-176
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Fine-resolution regional climate model simulations of the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones near Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Climate Dynamics
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 47-56
    Publisher: Springer Verlag
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  • Tropical cyclones and climate change: unresolved issues
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Climate Research
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 77-83
    Publisher: Inter-Research(Oldendorf Luhe)
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  • Using sea level rise projections in urban planning in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Coastal Research
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 586-598
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Version of TC-LAPS with an Interactive Ocean: Case Studies
    Year: 2004
    Event name: AMOS conference
    Conference Publication: AMOS Conference, Brisbane, 5-9 July 2004
    Page numbers: 100
    Publisher: AMOS(Sydney)
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  • Climate Change and the Coast: Science and Adaptation
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Coast to Coast 2004
    Conference Publication: Coast to Coast 2004
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Coast to Coast 2004(Sydney)
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  • Dynamics of ENSO in the BMRC C6CM (BMC2.1) and in nature
    Year: 2004
    Event name: AMOS 2004
    Conference Publication: AMOS
    Page numbers: 91-92
    Publisher: AMOS(Sydney)
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Reports

  • Climate Change and Coastal Response
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Coastal CRC(Indooroopilly)
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  • Climate change and coastal response
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Coastal CRC(Indooroopilly)
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  • Climate change in the Northern Territory
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: CSIRO Atmosphere Research(Aspendale)
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  • Climate change in the Northern Territory
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: CSIRO Atmosphere Research(Aspendale)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Impact of Sea-level Rise and Storm Surges on a Coastal Community
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Natural Hazards
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 187-207
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • Preface
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Natural Hazards
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 107-108
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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  • Simulations of observed interannual variability of tropical cyclone formation east of Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Atmospheric Science Letters
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 28-40
    Publisher: Academic Press
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Climate change and the Coast
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Climate Impacts on Australia's Natural Resources: Current and Future Challenges
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Conference Climate Impacts on Australia's Natural Resources: Current and Future Challenges
    Page numbers: 15-17
    Publisher: Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council(Canberra)
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  • Decadal Climate Variability in the Pacific Ocean
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    Page numbers: 269-270
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society(Boston)
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  • The Dynamics of ENSO in a CGCM: Preliminary Results
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
    Page numbers: 133-135
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society(Boston)
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  • Tropical cyclone forecasting using an air-sea interaction model
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 6th Tropical Cyclone Coastal Impacts Program Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 6th Tropical Cyclone Coastal Impacts Program
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: Tropical Cyclone Coastal Impacts Program(Canberra)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The influence of air-sea interaction on tropical cyclones
    Year: 2002
    Book: Advances in Fluid Mechanics
    Publisher: WIT Press(Southampton)
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Journal Articles

  • Probability of cyclone strike on specific regions of the Queensland coast, given current cyclone position and movement
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Meteorological Magazine
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 67-75
    Page numbers: 69-75
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Sea level rise projections and planning in Australia
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Coast to Coast 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Coast to Coast 2002
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Coastal CRC(Indooroopilly)
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Reports

Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Australia and New Zealand
    Year: 2001
    Book: Climate change 2001:impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: contribution of Working Group II to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Regional climate information-evaluation and projections
    Year: 2001
    Book: Climate change 2001: the scientific basis : contribution of Working Group I to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Extended seasonal prediction of precipitation in Fiji
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Meteorological Magazine
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 195-203
    Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service(Canberra)
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  • Interannual, decadal and transient greenhouse simulations of tropical cyclone-like vortices in a regional climate model of the South Pacific
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Climate Dynamics
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 3043-3054
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Reports

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