About me
I am a climate scientist and meteorologist and my expertise can be broadly classified in two key areas: land-atmosphere interactions and regional climate modelling. I have significant expertise in dynamical down-scaling of global climate models, which typically have spatial resolutions of 100 to 250 km, to regional scales of 1 to 10 km. This is important for decision making at the local/regional level. I also do a lot of research on Land-Atmosphere interactions, for example, how does large-scale land clearing for agriculture affect local meteorology and climatology. I am also interested in the dynamics of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall events etc. Some of my research also focuses on fire weather and air pollution more broadly. I was also a lead author for the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5 degrees Global Warming for Chapter 1 of the report on "Framing and Context". I am currently a coordinating lead author for the upcoming 7th Assessment Report of the IPCC for Chapter 1 of the report, and the science lead for the Climate Change Initiative (CSI) of Western Australia. The CSI aims to provide high resolution regional projections for WA by dynamical downscaling of the latest global climate models used by the IPCC from their relatively coarse resolutions of 100-250 km down to 4 km for the southwest and northwest of WA.