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Overview

Andrew Sturman is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extensively covers areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, and Food Science.

Their research focuses on several main topics, including Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Fermentation and Sensory Analysis, Wine Industry and Tourism, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Recent publications by Andrew Sturman include:

  • Adaptation to climate change by determining grapevine cultivar differences using temperature-based phenology models, 2020, OENO One
  • Impacts of terrain on convective surface layer turbulence over central Himalaya based on Monin-Obukhov similarity theory, 2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Precipitation and temperature anomalies over Aotearoa New Zealand analysed by weather types and descriptors of atmospheric centres of action, 2022, International Journal of Climatology
  • "Beyond Weather Regimes": Descriptors Monitoring Atmospheric Centers of Action. A case study for Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021, Journal of Climate
  • Investigating multiscale meteorological controls and impact of soil moisture heterogeneity on radiation fog in complex terrain using semi-idealised simulations, 2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sturman include:

  • Hervé Quénol
  • Michael C. T. Trought
  • Benjamin Pohl
  • James Renwick
  • Nicolas Fauchereau

Andrew Sturman has published in various peer-reviewed venues with repeated contributions to:

  • OENO One
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Research

In addition to journal articles, Sturman has contributed to book publications, including a 2023 publication with Oxford University Press titled Climate Change.

Best Publications

  • The weather and climate of Australia and New Zealand

    Andrew P Sturman;Nigel James Tapper

  • The global distribution of mineral dust and its impacts on the climate system: A review

    O. Alizadeh Choobari;P. Zawar-Reza;A. Sturman

  • A review of intraurban variations in particulate air pollution: Implications for epidemiological research

    J. Gaines Wilson;Simon Kingham;Jamie Pearce;Andrew P. Sturman

  • El Niño Southern Oscillation and Climatic Variability

    Andrew Sturman

  • THE ATMOSPHERE AND WEATHER OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Andrew Sturman

  • The "wind of 120 days" and dust storm activity over the Sistan Basin

    O. Alizadeh-Choobari;P. Zawar-Reza;A. Sturman

  • Spatial Variability of Surface Radiation Fluxes in Mountainous Terrain

    A. J. Oliphant;R. A. Spronken-Smith;A. P. Sturman;I. F. Owens

  • Health effects due to motor vehicle air pollution in New Zealand

    K. A. Rolfe;T. Kjellstrom;A. Woodward;S. Hales

  • The New Zealand Southern Alps Experiment

    D. S. Wratt;R. N. Ridley;M. R. Sinclair;H. Larsen

  • Comparison of statistical and dynamical downscaling results from the WRF model

    Renan Le Roux;Marwan Katurji;Peyman Zawar-Reza;Hervé Quénol

  • Identifying regional dust transport pathways: ­application of kinematic trajectory modelling to a trans-Tasman case

    Hamish A. McGowan;Grant H. McTainsh;Peyman Zawar-Reza;Andrew P. Sturman

  • Aeolian dust transport and deposition by foehn winds in an alpine environment, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

    Hamish A. McGowan;Andrew P. Sturman;Ian F. Owens

  • The surface wind field during winter smog nights in Christchurch and coastal Canterbury, New Zealand

    Meinolf Kossmann;Andrew Sturman

  • Low level jet intensification by mineral dust aerosols

    O. Alizadeh Choobari;P. Zawar-Reza;A. Sturman

  • Heat balance characteristics during fine periods on the lower parts of the Franz Josef Glacier, South Westland, New Zealand

    N. Ishikawa;I. F. Owens;A. P. Sturman

  • Intraurban variations of PM10 air pollution in Christchurch, New Zealand: implications for epidemiological studies.

    J. Gaines Wilson;Simon Kingham;Andrew P. Sturman

  • Health and air pollution in New Zealand: main report

    G Fisher;T Kjellstrom;S Kingham;S Hales

  • A Comparative Review of the Weather and Climate of the Southern Alps of New Zealand and the European Alps

    Andrew Sturman;Heinz Wanner

  • A study of interacting multi-scale wind systems, Canterbury plains, New Zealand

    I. G. McKendry;A. P. Sturman;I. F. Owens

  • CIRCULATION CHANGES AND TELECONNECTIONS BETWEEN GLACIAL ADVANCES ON THE WEST COAST OF NEW ZEALAND AND EXTENDED SPELLS OF DROUGHT YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA

    P. D. Tyson;A. P. Sturman;B. B. Fitzharris;S. J. Mason

  • A global satellite view of the seasonal distribution of mineral dust and its correlation with atmospheric circulation

    O. Alizadeh-Choobari;A. Sturman;P. Zawar-Reza

Frequent Co-Authors

Hamish A. McGowan
Hamish A. McGowan University of Queensland
Nigel J. Tapper
Nigel J. Tapper Monash University
Simon Kingham
Simon Kingham University of Canterbury
Ian G. McKendry
Ian G. McKendry University of British Columbia
Roger K. Smith
Roger K. Smith Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Grant Harvey McTainsh
Grant Harvey McTainsh Griffith University
Laurence Armi
Laurence Armi University of California, San Diego
Ulrich Corsmeier
Ulrich Corsmeier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Norbert Kalthoff
Norbert Kalthoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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