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Hamish A. McGowan is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Subfields in which they have published include Oceanography, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in McGowan's research involve Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate variability and models, Fire effects on ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by McGowan include:

  • Atypical weather patterns cause coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia during the 2021-2022 La Niña, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • HailTrack-Improving Radar-Based Hailfall Estimates by Modeling Hail Trajectories, 2021, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Quantifying Hail and Lightning Risk Factors Using Long-Term Observations Around Australia, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • A Variational Interpolation Method for Gridding Weather Radar Data, 2022, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • A Radar-Based Hail Climatology of Australia, 2024, Monthly Weather Review

Frequent co-authors in McGowan's research include:

  • Joshua Soderholm
  • Jordan Brook
  • Nik Callow
  • Nadav G. Lensky
  • Alain Protat

The scientist's work has been published in several journals, with multiple contributions in:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

  • Identification of dust transport pathways from Lake Eyre, Australia using Hysplit

    Hamish A. McGowan;Andrew Clark

  • The 23rd October, 2002 dust storm in eastern Australia: characteristics and meteorological conditions.

    Grant McTainsh;Yiu-chung Chan;Hamish McGowan;John Leys

  • A continent under stress: interactions, feedbacks and risks associated with impact of modified land cover on Australia's climate

    C. A. McAlpine;J. I. Syktus;J. G. Ryan;R. C. Deo

  • Long-range dust transport from eastern Australia: A proxy for Holocene aridity and ENSO-type climate variability

    Samuel K. Marx;Hamish A. McGowan;Balz S. Kamber

  • Foehn Winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: The Origin of Extreme Warming Events*

    Johanna C. Speirs;Daniel F. Steinhoff;Hamish A. McGowan;David H. Bromwich

  • Modeling the impact of historical land cover change on Australia's regional climate

    C. A. McAlpine;J. Syktus;R. C. Deo;P. J. Lawrence

  • AUSLEM (AUStralian Land Erodibility Model): A tool for identifying wind erosion hazard in Australia

    Nicholas P. Webb;Nicholas P. Webb;Hamish A. McGowan;Hamish A. McGowan;Stuart R. Phinn;Grant Harvey McTainsh;Grant Harvey McTainsh

  • Provenance of long travelled dust determined with ultra-trace-element composition: A pilot study with samples from New Zealand glaciers

    Samuel K. Marx;Balz S. Kamber;Hamish A. McGowan

  • Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes including droughts in eastern Australia.

    Ravinesh C. Deo;J. I. Syktus;C. A. McAlpine;P. J. Lawrence

  • Scavenging of atmospheric trace metal pollutants by mineral dusts: Inter-regional transport of Australian trace metal pollution to New Zealand

    Samuel K Marx;Balz S Kamber;Hamish A McGowan

  • Late Quaternary vegetation history of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, eastern Australia

    Patrick T. Moss;John Tibby;Lynda Petherick;Hamish McGowan

  • Evidence of ENSO mega‐drought triggered collapse of prehistory Aboriginal society in northwest Australia

    Hamish McGowan;Samuel Marx;Patrick Moss;Andrew Hammond

  • Climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum in eastern Australia: evidence of two stadials?

    Lynda Petherick;Hamish A. McGowan;Patrick Moss

  • Sand dune movement in the Victoria Valley, Antarctica

    Mary C. Bourke;Mary C. Bourke;Ryan C. Ewing;David Finnegan;Hamish A. McGowan

  • Reconstructing transport pathways for late Quaternary dust from eastern Australia using the composition of trace elements of long traveled dusts

    Lynda M. Petherick;Hamish A. McGowan;Balz S. Kamber

  • Atmospheric pollutants in alpine peat bogs record a detailed chronology of industrial and agricultural development on the Australian continent.

    Samuel K. Marx;Balz S. Kamber;Hamish A. McGowan;Atun Zawadzki

  • 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

  • Regional climate variability driven by foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Johanna C. Speirs;Hamish A. McGowan;Daniel F. Steinhoff;David H. Bromwich

  • Reconstructing annual inflows to the headwater catchments of the Murray River, Australia, using the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

    Hamish A. McGowan;Samuel K. Marx;John Denholm;Joshua Soderholm

  • Influence of the 23 October 2002 dust storm on the air quality of four Australian cities

    Yiu-Chung Chan;Grant Mctainsh;John Leys;Hamish Mcgowan

  • Estimates of Australian dust flux into New Zealand: Quantifying the eastern Australian dust plume pathway using trace element calibrated 210Pb as a monitor

    Samuel K. Marx;Balz S. Kamber;Hamish A. McGowan

Frequent Co-Authors

Balz S. Kamber
Balz S. Kamber Queensland University of Technology
Andrew Sturman
Andrew Sturman University of Canterbury
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Stuart R. Phinn
Stuart R. Phinn University of Queensland
Grant Harvey McTainsh
Grant Harvey McTainsh Griffith University
Nicholas P. Webb
Nicholas P. Webb New Mexico State University
Clive McAlpine
Clive McAlpine University of Queensland
Ravinesh C. Deo
Ravinesh C. Deo University of Southern Queensland
Andrew J. Dowdy
Andrew J. Dowdy University of Melbourne
David H. Bromwich
David H. Bromwich The Ohio State University

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