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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
90
Citations
36690
World Ranking
582
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Andrew J. Pitman is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study they engage with are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Environmental Engineering

Central topics in their research cover:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Andrew J. Pitman has published multiple papers in frequently appearing venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Biogeosciences

Some recent publications include:

  • "Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Global hotspots for the occurrence of compound events," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change," 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Martin G. De Kauwe
  • Anna Ukkola
  • Gab Abramowitz
  • Sanaa Hobeichi
  • Jason P. Evans

Best Publications

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • Future climate risk from compound events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed for climate models

    A. J. Pitman

  • Global patterns in plant height

    Angela T. Moles;David I. Warton;Laura Warman;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

    Roger A. Pielke Sr.;Andy Pitman;Dev Niyogi;Rezaul Mahmood

  • Evaluation of the AR4 Climate Models’ Simulated Daily Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation over Australia Using Probability Density Functions

    SE Perkins;AJ Pitman;NJ Holbrook;J McAneney

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Markus G. Donat;Andy J. Pitman;Reto Knutti

  • 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

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Tropical deforestation: Modeling local- to regional-scale climate change

    A. Henderson-Sellers;Robert Earl Dickinson;T. B. Durbidge;P. J. Kennedy

  • Global patterns in seed size

    Angela T Moles;Angela T Moles;David D Ackerly;John C Tweddle;John C Tweddle;John B Dickie

  • Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

    R.A. Feddes;H. Hoff;M. Bruen;T.E. Dawson

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation

    Anna M. Ukkola;Martin G. De Kauwe;Michael L. Roderick;Gab Abramowitz

  • Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

    Alexis Berg;Kirsten Findell;Benjamin Lintner;Alessandra Giannini

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

  • The Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS): Phases 2 and 3

    A. Henderson-Sellers;A. J. Pitman;P. K. Love;P. Irannejad

  • Why is the choice of future climate scenarios for species distribution modelling important

    Linda J. Beaumont;Lesley Hughes;A. J. Pitman

  • Impacts of climate change on the world's most exceptional ecoregions

    Linda J. Beaumont;Andrew Pitman;Sarah Perkins;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

    N de Noblet-Ducoudre;J.P. Boisier;A. Pitman;G.B. Bonan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason P. Evans
Jason P. Evans University of New South Wales
Ann Henderson-Sellers
Ann Henderson-Sellers Macquarie University
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Martin G. De Kauwe
Martin G. De Kauwe University of Bristol
Markus G. Donat
Markus G. Donat Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick University of New South Wales

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