Josephine Brown
"My research is focused on using coupled atmosphere-ocean models to investigate changes in climate variability, including ENSO and monsoons, under palaeoclimate conditions. I am also interested in quantitative comparisons of palaeoclimate data such as coral and pollen records with climate model output"
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Education:
- PhD (2003): School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. Thesis: "The response of stable water isotopes in precipitation and the surface ocean to tropical climate variability".
- Honours (1999): Department of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Thesis: "A photometric, morphological and environmental study of the COLA galaxy southern sample".
Refereed Publications:
- Bowman, D., M. Braby, G. Brown, J. Brown, L. Cook, M. Crisp, F. Ford, S. Haberle, J. Hughes, Y. Isagi, L. Joseph, P. Ladiges, J. McBride and G. Nelson (2009), Biogeography of Australia’s last frontier: the monsoon tropics, Journal of Biogeography, in press.
- Brown, J., A.H. Lynch and A.G. Marshall (2009), Variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole in coupled model paleoclimate simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D11105, doi:10.1029/2008JD010346.
- Brown, J., A. Tudhope, M. Collins and H. McGregor (2008), Mid-Holocene ENSO: Issues in quantitative model-proxy data comparisons, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3202, doi: 10.1029/2007PA001512. Abstract
- Brown, J., M. Collins, A. Tudhope and T. Toniazzo (2007), Modelling mid-Holocene tropical climate and ENSO variability: Towards constraining predictions of future change with palaeo-data, Climate Dynamics, 30, 19-36, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0270-9. Abstract
- Toniazzo, T., M. Collins and J. Brown (2007), The variation of ENSO characteristics associated with atmospheric parameter perturbations in a coupled model, Climate Dynamics, published online, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0313-2. Abstract
- Brown, J., M. Collins and A. Tudhope (2006), Coupled model simulations of mid-Holocene ENSO and comparisons with coral oxygen isotope records, Advances in Geosciences, 6, 29-33.
- Brown, J., I. Simmonds, and D. Noone (2006), Modeling delta-18O in tropical precipitation and the surface ocean for present-day climate, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D05105, doi:10.1029/2004JD005611.
- Brown, J. and I. Simmonds (2004), Sensitivity of the delta-18O-temperature relationship to the distribution of continents, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L09208, doi:10.1029/2004GL019870.
In Preparation
Address
- Room No: 215, Building 28
- Telephone Number: +61-3-9902 0110
- Fax Number:+61-3-9905 8282
- josephine.brown at arts.monash.edu.au