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6412
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Andrew J. Dowdy publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew J. Dowdy sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 163 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Andrew J. Dowdy D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew J. Dowdy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1946 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Andrew J. Dowdy is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific attention to global and planetary change and atmospheric science. Their work spans additional subfields including oceanography, environmental engineering, and water science and technology.

Dowdy's main research topics include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tropical and extratropical cyclones research
  • Ocean waves and remote sensing
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Wind and air flow studies

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications with frequent appearances in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Climate Dynamics, Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Research Square.

Examples of notable recent papers by Dowdy include:

  • Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia (2021), Communications Earth & Environment
  • Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change (2021), Nature Communications
  • Insights From CMIP6 for Australia's Future Climate (2020), Earth's Future
  • Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming (2022), Nature Climate Change
  • The 2019 Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex Weakening and Its Impacts (2021), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Dowdy has collaborated extensively with other researchers in their field. Frequent coauthors include Acacia Pepler, Andrew Brown, Savin S. Chand, Chun-Hsu Su, and Pandora Hope.

Among professional recognitions, Andrew J. Dowdy is noted as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor awarded in 1946.

Best Publications

  • Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

    Nerilie J. Abram;Benjamin J. Henley;Benjamin J. Henley;Alex Sen Gupta;Tanya J. R. Lippmann

  • Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

    Josep G Canadell;C P Mick Meyer;Garry D Cook;Andrew Dowdy

  • Insights from CMIP6 for Australia's future climate

    Michael Richard Grose;Sugata Narsey;Francois Delage;Andrew J. Dowdy

  • Climate Change Increases the Potential for Extreme Wildfires

    Giovanni Di Virgilio;Jason P. Evans;Stephanie A. P. Blake;Matthew Armstrong

  • Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming

    Unknown

  • Climatological Variability of Fire Weather in Australia

    Andrew J. Dowdy

  • Australian hot and dry extremes induced by weakenings of the stratospheric polar vortex

    Eun Pa Lim;Harry H. Hendon;Ghyslaine Boschat;Debra Hudson

  • Future changes in extreme weather and pyroconvection risk factors for Australian wildfires

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Hua Ye;Acacia Pepler;Marcus Thatcher

  • Extreme weather caused by concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences.

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Jennifer L. Catto

  • Development of a Global Fire Weather Database

    R. D. Field;R. D. Field;A. C. Spessa;A. C. Spessa;N. A. Aziz;A. Camia

  • The 2019 Southern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex weakening and its impacts

    Eun-Pa Lim;Harry H. Hendon;Amy H. Butler;David W. J. Thompson

  • Index sensitivity analysis applied to the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index and the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Andrew J. Dowdy;Graham A. Mills;Graham A. Mills;Klara Finkele;Klara Finkele;William de Groot

  • Pyrocumulonimbus lightning and fire ignition on Black Saturday in southeast Australia

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Michael D. Fromm;Nicholas McCarthy

  • The large‐scale dynamics of the mesosphere–lower thermosphere during the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric warming of 2002

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Robert A. Vincent;Damian J. Murphy;Masaki Tsutsumi

  • Understanding compound hazards from a weather system perspective

    Jennifer L. Catto;Andrew Dowdy

  • A CMIP6-based multi-model downscaling ensemble to underpin climate change services in Australia

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  • An evaluation framework for downscaling and bias correction in climate change impact studies

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  • Climatology of thunderstorms, convective rainfall and dry lightning environments in Australia

    Andrew J. Dowdy

  • Tropical Cyclone Climatology of the South Pacific Ocean and Its Relationship to El Nino-Southern Oscillation

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Lixin Qi;David Jones;Hamish Ramsay

  • Wildfire and Weather Radar: A Review

    Nicholas McCarthy;Adrien Guyot;Adrien Guyot;Andrew Dowdy;Hamish McGowan

  • Polar mesosphere and lower thermosphere dynamics: 1. Mean wind and gravity wave climatologies

    Andrew J. Dowdy;Robert A. Vincent;Masaki Tsutsumi;Kiyoshi Igarashi

  • A comparison of mean winds and gravity wave activity in the northern and southern polar MLT

    Andrew Dowdy;Robert A. Vincent;Kiyoshi Igarashi;Yasuhiro Murayama

  • Seasonal and regional signature of the projected southern Australian rainfall reduction

    P Hope;M Grose;B Timbal;A Dowdy

  • Climate change in Australia. Projections for Australia's NRM regions

    Penny Whetton;Paul Holper;John Clarke;Leanne Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertrand Timbal
Bertrand Timbal Bureau of Meteorology
Kevin Walsh
Kevin Walsh University of Melbourne
Robert A. Vincent
Robert A. Vincent University of Adelaide
Hamish A. McGowan
Hamish A. McGowan University of Queensland
Jason P. Evans
Jason P. Evans University of New South Wales
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Harry H. Hendon
Harry H. Hendon Bureau of Meteorology
Eun-Pa Lim
Eun-Pa Lim Bureau of Meteorology
Julie M. Arblaster
Julie M. Arblaster National Center for Atmospheric Research
Matthias M. Boer
Matthias M. Boer Western Sydney University

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