Lisa Alexander
Research Assistant
"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"
Education:
BSc (Hons) Applied Mathematics 1995 Queens University, Belfast MSc Computational Science 1998 Queens University, Belfast
Publications
1. External Reviewed Papers
- Alexander, L.V. and J.M. Arblaster (2008). Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections. Int. J. Climatol. (accepted).
- Allan, R, Tett, S. and Alexander, L.V. (2008), Fluctuations in autumn-winter severe storms over the British Isles: 1920 to present. submitted to Int. J. Climatol.
- Scaife, A.A., Folland, C.K., Alexander, L.V., Moberg, A. and Knight J.R. (2008). European climate extremes and the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 21, 72-83
- Alexander, L.V., P. Hope, D. Collins, B. Trewin, A. Lynch and N. Nicholls (2007), Trends in Australia's climate means and extremes: a global context. Aust. Met. Mag., 56, 1-18.
- Nicholls, N. and L. Alexander (2007). Has the climate become more variable or extreme? Progress 1992-2006. Progress in Physical Geography, 31, pp 1-11.
- Kiktev, D., Caesar, J., Alexander, L.V., Shiogama, H. and Collier, M. (2007). Comparison of observed and modeled trends in annual extremes of temperature and precipitation using the results of several climate models. GRL, 34, L10702
- Sensoy, S. Peterson, T.C., Alexander, L.V. and Zhang, X. (2007). Meeting summary: Enhancing Middle East climate change monitoring and indexes. Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc., 88, 1249-1254
- 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
- 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
- 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 111, D22106, doi:10.1029/2006JD007103
- Zou, X., L. V. Alexander, D. E. Parker and J. Caesar (2006). Variations in severe storms over China. Geophys. Res. Letts., 33, L17701, doi:10.1029/2006GL026131
- 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., 32, L13704, Doi:10.1029/2005GL022371
- 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
- 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,110, D22104.
- 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
- 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., Alexander, L.V. and Kennedy, J. (2004). Global and regional climate in 2003. Weather, 59, 145-152.
- 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
- 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.
- Horton, E.B., Parker, D.E. and Alexander, L.V. (2003). Global and Regional Climate in 2002. Weather, 58, pp. 324 - 336
- Kiktev, D., Sexton D. Alexander L. and Folland C. (2003). Comparison of modelled and observed trends in indicators of daily climate extremes. J. Clim., 16, 3560-71.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Parker, D.E. and Alexander, L.V. (2002). Global and Regional Climate in 2001. Weather, 57, pp. 328-340
- 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
- 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., 83, No. 6.
- 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
- 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
- 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. (2001). Climate Assessment for 2000. Bulletin of Am. Met. Soc.,Vol. 82, No. 6.
- Parker, D.E. and Alexander, L.V. (2001). Global and Regional Climate in 2000. Weather, 56, pp. 255 -267
- Parker, D.E., Horton, E.B. and Alexander, L.V. (2000). Global and Regional Climate in 1999. Weather, 55, pp. 188 - 198
2. Conference abstracts and papers
- Alexander, L.V. And Arblaster, J.M., 2007 "Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections. " AGU annual Fall meeting, San Francisco, 10th-14th Dec, 2007
- Alexander, L.V. And Arblaster, J.M., 2007 "Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections." Greenhouse 2007, Sydney, 2nd-5th Oct, 2007
- 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., 2004: "Creation of long-running homogeneous, daily gridded global temperature datasets". Workshop on Climate Data Homogenization, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 April 2004.
- 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 andclimate 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.
- 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.
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
Address
- Room No: 216, Building 28
- Telephone Number: +61-3-9905 8415
- fax Number: +61-3-9905 8282
- Lisa.Alexander@arts.monash.edu.au