Lisa Alexander
Research Assistant
Education: BSc (Hons) Applied Mathematics 1995 Queens University, Belfast MSc Computational Science 1998 Queens University, Belfast
"My research interests mostly focus on how climate extremes on both regional and global scales are changing and how well climate models are able to simulate these changes. My PhD thesis will aim to understand the mechanisms which drive changes in climate extremes over Australia and what impacts these changes might have on vulnerable regions and ecosystems"
Publications
1. External Reviewed Papers
Alexander, L., 2003 "Status of climate in Europe in 2002". In: The Climate Assessment for 2002 (A.M. Waple, J.H. Lawrimore, eds.). Bulletin. Am. Met. Soc., Vol. 84, No. 6, S43-S45
Alexander, L.V., X. Zhang, T. C. Peterson, J. Caesar, B. Gleason, A.M.G. Klein Tank, M. Haylock, D. Collins, B. Trewin, F. Rahim, A. Tagipour, R. Kumar Kolli, J.V. Revadekar, G. Griffiths, L. Vincent, D. B. Stephenson, J. Burn, E. Aguilar, M. Brunet, M. Taylor, M. New, P. Zhai, M. Rusticucci, J. Luis Vazquez Aguirre (2006), Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res.- Atmospheres, 111, D05109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006290
Alexander, L.V., Tett, S.F.B and Jonsson, T, 2005 "Recent observed changes in severe storms over the United Kingdom and Iceland". Geophys. Res. Lett. Doi:10.1029/2005GL022371
Alexander, L.V. and Jones, P.D., 2001 "Updated precipitation series for the U.K. and discussion of recent extremes". Atmospheric Science Letters, doi:10.1006/asle.2001.0025.
Alexander, L.V. and Parker. D.E., 2004 "Status of climate in Europe in 2003. In: The Climate Assessment for 2003 (D. Levinson, A.M. Waple, eds.). Bulletin. Am. Met. Soc., Vol. 85, No. 6, S1-S72
Arblaster, J and L. Alexander (2005), Extreme change: an analysis of past, present and future changes in global temperature and precipitation indices. Bull. Aust. Met. Ocean. Soc., 18, 125-130
Caesar J., L. Alexander and R. Vose, 2006: Large-scale changes in observed daily maximum and minimum temperatures: Creation and analysis of a new gridded data set. J. Geophys. Res.- Atmospheres, 111, D05101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006280
Easterling, D.R., Alexander, L.V., Mokssit, A. and Detemmerman, V., 2003 "Workshop Summary: CCl/CLIVAR Workshop to develop Priority Climate Indices for Africa", Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc., Oct 2003, 1403-1407.
Frich, P., Alexander, L. V., Della-Marta, P., Gleason, B., Haylock, M., Klein Tank, A. and Peterson, T., 2002 "Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during the second half of the 20th century". Climate Research , 19, 193-212.
Horton, E.B., Parker, D.E. and Alexander, L.V., 2003 "Global and Regional Climate in 2002", Weather, 58, pp. 324 - 336
Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J., Briffa, K.R.,Folland, C. K., Horton, E.B., Alexander, L.V., Parker, D.E. and Rayner, N.A., 2001 "Adjusting for sampling density in grid-box land and ocean surface temperature time series". J. Geophys. Research.106, 3371-3380
Kiktev, D., Sexton D. Alexander L. and Folland C., 2002 "Trends in fields of precipitation and surface temperature annual extremes during the second half of the 20th century". Meteorology and Hydrology (Russia), N11, pp. 7-16
Kiktev, D., Sexton D. Alexander L. and Folland C., 2003 "Comparison of modelled and observed trends in indicators of daily climate extremes". J. Clim., vol 16, no.22, 3560-71.
Klein Tank A.M.G. , J.B. Wijngaard, G.P. Können, R. Böhm, G. Demarée, A. Gocheva, M. Mileta, S. Pashiardis, L. Hejkrlik, C. Kern-Hansen, R. Heino, P. Bessemoulin, G. Müller-Westmeier, M. Tzanakou, S. Szalai, T. Pálsdóttir, D. Fitzgerald, S. Rubin, M. Capaldo, M. Maugeri, A. Leitass, A. Bukantis, R. Aberfeld, A.F.V. van Engelen, E. Forland, M. Mietus, F. Coelho, C. Mares, V. Razuvaev,E. Nieplova, T. Cegnar, J. Antonio López, B. Dahlström, A. Moberg, W. Kirchhofer, A. Ceylan, O. Pachaliuk, L.V. Alexander and P. Petrovic, 2002, "Daily surface air temperature and precipitation dataset 1901-1999 for European Climate Assessment (ECA)". Int. J. Climatol, 22, 1441-1453.
Lawrimore, J.H., Halpert, M.S., Bell, G.D., Menne, M.J., Lyon, B., Schnell, R.C., Gleason, K.L., Easterling, D.R., Thiaw, W., Wright, W.J., Heim Jr.,R.R., Robinson, D.A. and Alexander, L.V., 2001, "Climate Assessment for 2000", Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc.,Vol. 82, No. 6.
Moberg, A., P.D. Jones, D. Lister, A. Walther, M. Brunet, J. Jacobeit, L.V. Alexander, P.M. Della-Marta, J. Luterbacher, P. Yiou, D. Chen, A.M.G. Klein Tank, O. Saladie, J. Sigro, E. Aguilar, H. Alexandersson, C. Almarza, I. Auer, M. Barriendos, M. Bergert, H. Bergstrom, R. Bohm, J. Butler, J. Caesar, A. Drebs, D. Founda, F-W. Gerstengarbe, G. Micela, M. Maugeri, H. Osterle, K. Panzic, M. Petrakis, L. Srnec, R. Tolasz, H. Tuomenvirta, P.C. Werner, H. Linderholm, A. Philipp, H. Wanner and E. Xoplaki, 2006, Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analysed for the period 1901-2000, J. Geophys. Res – Atmospheres (submitted)
Page C.M, Nicholls N., Plummer N., Trewin B., Manton M., Alexander L., Chambers L.E., Choi Y., Collins D., Della-Marta P., Haylock M.R., Inape K., Laurent V., Maitrepierre L., Makmur E.E.P., Nakamigawa H., Ouprasitwong N., McGree S., Pahalad J., Panmao Z., Salinger M.J., Tibig L., Tran D.T. and Vediapan K., 2004: "Data rescue in the Southeast Asia and South Pacific region - challenges and opportunities", Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc., Oct 2004, 1483-1489.
Parker, D.E.and Alexander, L.V., 2001 "Global and Regional Climate in 2000", Weather, 56, pp. 255 -267
Parker, D.E.and Alexander, L.V., 2002 "Global and Regional Climate in 2001", Weather, 57, pp. 328-340
Parker, D.E., Alexander, L.V. and Kennedy, J., 2004 "Global and regional climate in 2003", Weather, 59, 145-152.
Parker, D.E., Horton, E.B. and Alexander, L.V., 2000 "Global and Regional Climate in 1999", Weather, 55, pp. 188 - 198
Peterson, T.C., Taylor, M.A., Demeritte, R. Duncombe, D.L. Burton, S., Thompson, F., Porter, A. Mercedes, M., Villegas, E., Fils, R.S., Klein Tank A., Warner, R., Joyette, A., Mills, W., Alexander, L. and Gleason, B. 2002, "Recent Changes in Climate Extremes in the Caribbean Region". Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 107, No. D21, 4601
Rayner, N.A., Parker, D.E., Horton, E.B., Folland, C.K., Alexander, L.V., Rowell, D.P., Kent, E.C. and Kaplan, A., 2003: Globally complete analyses of SST, sea ice and night marine air temperature, 1871-2000, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 108, No. D14 , 4407 10.1029/2002JD002670
Sensoy, S. Peterson, T.C. and Alexander, L., 2005 "Meeting summary: Workshop on enhancing Middle East climate change monitoring and indices". Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc. (accepted)
Waple, A.M., Lawrimore, J.H., Halpert, M.S, Bell, G., Lyon, B., Menne,
M.J., Gleason, K.L., Schnell, R.C., Thiaw, W., Wright, W.J. Salinger,
M.J. Alexander, L., Stone. R.S. and Camargo S. J., 2002 "Climate
Assessment for 2001", Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc., Vol. 83, No. 6.
Zhang, X., E. Aguilar, S. Sensoy, H. Melkonyan, U. Tagiyeva, N. Ahmed, N. Kutaladze, F. Rahimzadeh, A. Taghipour, T.H. Hantosh, P. Albert, M. Semawi, M. Karam Ali, M. Halal Said Al-Shabibi, Z. Al-Oulan,Taha Zatari, I. Al Dean Khelet, S. Hammoud, M. Demircan, M. Eken, M. Adiguzel, L. Alexander, T. Peterson and Trevor Wallis, 2005: Trends in Middle East Climate Extremes Indices during 1930-2003. J. Geophys. Res.- Atmospheres, in press
Zou, X., L. V. Alexander, D. E. Parker and J. Caesar, 2006: Variations in severe storms over China, submitted to Geophys. Res. Letts.
2. Conference abstracts and papers
Alexander, L., 2004: "Creation of long-running homogeneous, daily gridded global temperature datasets". Workshop on Climate Data Homogenization, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 April 2004.
Alexander, L., 2005 "Mechanisms of change for severe storms over the UK" extended abstract for BMRC modelling workshop, Melbourne, 3rd - 6th October 2005.
Alexander, L. and Caesar, J. 2005 "Global observed changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation" The 9th IAMAS conference in Beijing, August 2005.
Alexander, L. and Caesar, J. 2005 "Global observed changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation" RMetS conference in Exeter, UK, 11th-16th September 2005.
Alexander, L., Ansell, T., Fereday, D., Jonsson, T. and Tett, S., 2005 "Mechanisms of change for severe storms over the UK and Iceland" RMetS conference in Exeter, UK, 11th-16th September 2005.
Alexander, L., Frich, P. and Jones, P.D., 2000 "A revised near real-time England and Wales precipitation series from the Met Office" Abstract for the Royal Meteorological Society 150th Anniversary Conference, "Meteorology at the Millennium", Cambridge, 10-14 July 2000.
Caesar, J., Alexander, L., and Brown S., 2004: "Creation of long-running, homogeneous daily gridded global temperature datasets". The 9th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 May 2004.
Easterling D., Alexander L. and Kolli K., 2003: "Precipitation - Breakout Group 2". In: IPCC Workshop on changes in Extreme weather and climate events, Beijing, China, 11-13 June 2002.
Kiktev D.B., Sexton,D.M., Alexander,L.V., Folland,C.K.: Spatial statistical structure of annual climate extremes and gridding their temporal trends. Abstracts of International Symposium on Climate Change (ISCC), Beijing, China, 31 March-3 April, 2003, pp.28-30.
Kiktev D., Sexton D., Alexander L and Folland C. 2003:"Comparison of modelled and observed trends in indices of daily climate extremes". Abstract of the Royal Meteorological Society Conference, UEA, Norwich, 1-5 Sept. 2003.
3. Internal Reports
Alexander L. 2003: "Recent observed changes in severe storms over the UK and Iceland" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/3/02
Alexander L. 2004: "Report on the digitization of historical UK climate data" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/3/04
Alexander L., Ansell, T. and Fereday, F. 2005: "Mechanisms of change for severe storms over the UK" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/7/04
Alexander L. and Croxall, D. 2005: "Final report on the digitization of sub-daily mean sea-level pressure data for the evaluation of changes in extreme storms over the United Kingdom" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/5/05
Alexander L. and Tett, S. 2003:"Estimating uncertainties in UK precipitation series" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/3/03
Alexander L., Caesar J., Brown S. and Hollis D. 2003: "Analysis of a new Met Office daily 5km United Kingdom dataset" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 15b/2/03
Alexander, L.V., 2002, "Initial observational analysis of storminess over the UK" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/5/02
Alexander, L.V., Frich, P. and Horton, E.B., 1999 "Homogeneous near real-time England and Wales precipitation series", Report to PMS: a similar report was also provided to National Climate Information Centre.
Alexander L.V. Sexton, D. and Horton, B., 2001 "Analysis of daily and multi-day changes in United Kingdom precipitation using gamma distributions". Report to DEFRA contract ref. 3/2/01
Caesar J., and Alexander L. "Observed changes in global temperature extremes and comparison with HadCM3" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 15b/1/03
Caesar J., Alexander L.V. and Brown S.J. 2003a: "Comparison of a new gridded daily temperature dataset with HadAM3" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 15/3/04
Caesar J., Alexander L.V. and Brown S.J. 2003b: "Validation of HadRM3P distributions and extremes over the UK" Report to DEFRA contract ref. 15/1/03
Sensoy S., Peterson T.C. and Alexander L.V., 2005: "Meeting Report: Workshop on enhancing South West Asian Climate Change Monitoring and Indices" Report to WMO, Nov. 2004
Sexton, D.M.H. Kiktev, D., Alexander, L. and Folland, C.K., 2001 "Comparison of observed and modelled climate extremes using HadAM3". Report to DEFRA contract ref. 5/7/01
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Lisa.Alexander@arts.monash.edu.au