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Overview

Andrew D. King is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with particular emphasis on climate variability, atmospheric phenomena, and planetary changes.

The main fields of study for Andrew D. King include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of interest cover Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

Research topics addressed in their work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Andrew D. King are:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Earth's Future
  • Nature Climate Change

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Josephine R. Brown
  • Tilo Ziehn
  • Alexander R Borowiak
  • Luke J. Harrington
  • Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew D. King are:

  • "The role of climate variability in Australian drought" (2020) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution" (2021) published in Climatic Change
  • "Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown" (2020) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Determining the Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Contribution to the Observed Intensification of Extreme Precipitation" (2020) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A multi-hazards earth science perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential for concurrent and cascading crises" (2020) published in Environment Systems & Decisions

Best Publications

  • Changes in extreme temperature and precipitation in the Arab region: long‐term trends and variability related to ENSO and NAO

    M. G. Donat;T. C. Peterson;M. Brunet;A. D. King

  • Australian climate extremes at 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming

    Andrew D. King;David J. Karoly;Benjamin J. Henley

  • Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

    T.C. Peterson;L.V. Alexander;M.R. Allen;J.A. Anel;J.A. Anel

  • A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

    Sjoukje Yvette Philip;Sarah F. Kew;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Friederike E.L. Otto

  • Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Karin van der Wiel;Sarah Kew;Sjoukje Philip

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • The efficacy of using gridded data to examine extreme rainfall characteristics: a case study for Australia

    Andrew D. King;Lisa V. Alexander;Markus G. Donat

  • Observed emergence of the climate change signal: from the familiar to the unknown

    Ed Hawkins;David John Frame;Luke James Harrington;Luke James Harrington;Manoj Joshi

  • The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming

    Andrew D. King;Luke J. Harrington

  • The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes

    Andrew D. King;Andrew D. King;Markus G. Donat;Erich M. Fischer;Ed Hawkins

  • Climate extremes in Europe at 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming

    Andrew D King;David J Karoly;David J Karoly

  • The role of climate variability in Australian drought

    Andrew D. King;Andrew D. King;Andy J. Pitman;Benjamin J. Henley;Benjamin J. Henley;Benjamin J. Henley;Anna M. Ukkola;Anna M. Ukkola

  • Attribution Analysis of the Ethiopian Drought of 2015

    Sjoukje Philip;Sarah F. Kew;Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Friederike Otto

  • Evolution of mean, variance and extremes in 21st century temperatures

    Sophie C. Lewis;Andrew D. King

  • Determining the Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Contribution to the Observed Intensification of Extreme Precipitation

    Seungmok Paik;Seung‐Ki Min;Seung‐Ki Min;Xuebin Zhang;Markus G. Donat

  • On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change

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  • Extreme Rainfall Variability in Australia: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictability

    Andrew D. King;Nicholas P. Klingaman;Lisa V. Alexander;Markus G. Donat

  • Asymmetry in the response of eastern Australia extreme rainfall to low‐frequency Pacific variability

    Andrew D. King;Lisa V. Alexander;Markus G. Donat

  • Observed relationships between Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and European climate extremes

    Andrew D. King;Andrew D. King;Amy H. Butler;Martin Jucker;Nick O. Earl;Nick O. Earl

  • A multi-hazards earth science perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential for concurrent and cascading crises.

    Mark C Quigley;Mark C Quigley;Januka Attanayake;Andrew King;Fabian Prideaux

  • Attributing high-impact extreme events across timescales—a case study of four different types of events

    Friederike E. L. Otto;Sjoukje Philip;Sarah Kew;Sihan Li

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Karoly
David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Markus G. Donat
Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick University of New South Wales
Friederike E. L. Otto
Friederike E. L. Otto University of Oxford
Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Seung-Ki Min
Seung-Ki Min Pohang University of Science and Technology
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Peter A. Stott
Peter A. Stott Met Office

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