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Jack Katzfey is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia and focuses on research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's research primarily addresses climate variability and models, urban heat island mitigation, hydrology and drought analysis, flood risk assessment and management, remote sensing and land use, climate change impacts on agriculture, and agricultural innovations and practices.

Frequent publication venues for Jack Katzfey include the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, International Journal of Climatology, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Katzfey are:

  • "Effects of urban areas on the diurnal cycle of temperature and precipitation in a global climate simulation," 2024, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "The Worldwide C3S CORDEX Grand Ensemble: A Major Contribution to Assess Regional Climate Change in the IPCC AR6 Atlas," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Global exposure of population and land-use to meteorological droughts under different warming levels and SSPs: A CORDEX-based study," 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • "How an urban parameterization affects a high-resolution global climate simulation," 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "How Feasible Is the Scaling-Out of Livelihood and Food System Adaptation in Asia-Pacific Islands?," 2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Katzfey works collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including Erika Coppola, Jason P. Evans, Daniela Jacob, René Laprise, and M. Levent Kurnaz, with multiple joint publications alongside each.

Best Publications

  • Projections of rapidly rising surface temperatures over Africa under low mitigation.

    Francois Engelbrecht;Francois Engelbrecht;Jimmy Adegoke;Mary-Jane Bopape;Mogesh Naidoo

  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • The Life Cycle of a Cyclone Wave in the Southern Hemisphere. Part I: Eddy Energy Budget

    I. Orlanski;J. Katzfey

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • A Scheme for Calculation of the Liquid Fraction in Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds in Large-Scale Models

    Leon D. Rotstayn;Brian F. Ryan;Jack J. Katzfey

  • Global dynamical projections of surface ocean wave climate for a future high greenhouse gas emission scenario

    Mark A. Hemer;Jack Katzfey;Claire E. Trenham

  • Relevance of sub-grid-scale land-use effects for mesoscale models

    K. Heinke Schlünzen;Jack J. Katzfey

  • Evaluating reanalysis-driven CORDEX regional climate models over Australia: model performance and errors

    Giovanni Di Virgilio;Jason P. Evans;Alejandro Di Luca;Roman Olson;Roman Olson

  • Climate Futures for Tasmania: Climate Modelling Technical Report

    SP Corney;J Katzfey;JL McGregor;Grose

  • Hydrological processes in regional climate model simulations of the central United States flood of June-July 1993.

    Christopher J. Anderson;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan;Eugene S. Takle

  • Performance of an empirical bias‐correction of a high‐resolution climate dataset

    James C. Bennett;James C. Bennett;Michael R. Grose;Michael R. Grose;Stuart P. Corney;Christopher J. White;Christopher J. White

  • The Impact of Climate Change on the Poleward Movement of Tropical Cyclone-Like Vortices in a Regional Climate Model

    Kevin J. E. Walsh;Jack J. Katzfey

  • Precipitation in marine cumulus and stratocumulus.. Part I: Thermodynamic and dynamic observations of closed cell circulations and cumulus bands

    Jørgen B Jensen;Sunhee Lee;Paul B Krummel;Jack Katzfey

  • Bias and variance correction of sea surface temperatures used for dynamical downscaling

    P. Hoffmann;P. Hoffmann;J. J. Katzfey;J. L. McGregor;M. Thatcher

  • Global exposure of population and land-use to meteorological droughts under different Warming Levels and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: A Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment-based study

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • Simulation of Extreme New Zealand Precipitation Events. Part I: Sensitivity to Orography and Resolution

    Jack J. Katzfey

  • GCM Simulations of Eastern Australian Cutoff Lows

    Jack J. Katzfey;Kathleen L. Mcinnes

  • Assessing model performance of daily solar irradiance forecasts over Australia

    Jing Huang;Lawrie J. Rikus;Yi Qin;Jack Katzfey

  • Developing scenarios of climate change for Southeastern Australia: an example using regional climate model output

    P. H. Whetton;J. J. Katzfey;K. J. Hennessy;X. Wu

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

    P Hope;M Grose;B Timbal;A Dowdy

  • Performance of downscaled regional climate simulations using a variable-resolution regional climate model: Tasmania as a test case

    Stuart Corney;Michael Grose;Michael Grose;James C. Bennett;James C. Bennett;Christopher White

  • Historical and future seasonal rainfall variability in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, Indonesia: Implications for the agriculture and water sectors

    Dewi G.C. Kirono;James R.A. Butler;John L. McGregor;Adi Ripaldi

  • An Atmospheric Sciences Workflow and its implementation with Web services

    David Abramson;Jagan Kommineni;John L. McGregor;Jack Katzfey

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. McGregor
John L. McGregor Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Nathaniel L. Bindoff University of Tasmania
Song-You Hong
Song-You Hong National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christopher J. White
Christopher J. White University of Queensland
William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Xuejie Gao
Xuejie Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Dong-Kyou Lee
Dong-Kyou Lee Seoul National University
Yuqing Wang
Yuqing Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University

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