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Jonathan Nott is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with specific engagement in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, geology, soil science, and aspects of environmental management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their research topics include tropical and extratropical cyclones, climate variability and models, flood risk assessment and management, geological and geophysical studies, soil erosion and sediment transport, landslides and related hazards, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Jonathan Nott has contributed to several recent publications. These include:

  • A long-term view of tropical cyclone risk in Australia (2023), published in Natural Hazards
  • Sensitivity of northwest Australian tropical cyclone activity to ITCZ migration since 500 CE (2023), published in Science Advances
  • Comment on "Recasting geomorphology as a landscape science" by (2021), published in Geomorphology

Their frequent co-authors include Thomas Mortlock, Ryan P. Crompton, Valentina Koschatzky, Rhawn F. Denniston, and Caroline C. Ummenhofer.

Publication venues where Jonathan Nott has appeared most frequently are:

  • Natural Hazards
  • Science Advances
  • Geomorphology

Main fields of study are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a greater volume of publications in Environmental Science.

Jonathan Nott's work encompasses multiple subfields reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. These subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Geology, Soil Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, indicating a broad engagement with environmental processes and policy aspects related to natural hazards and earth systems.

Best Publications

  • Waves, coastal boulder deposits and the importance of the pre-transport setting

    Jonathan Nott

  • Extremely high-energy wave deposits inside the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: determining the cause—tsunami or tropical cyclone

    Jonathan Nott

  • Extremely high-energy wave deposits inside the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Determining the cause-tsunami or tropical cyclone

    J. Nott

  • High frequency of ‘super-cyclones’ along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years

    Jonathan Nott;Matthew Hayne

  • Sediments deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami along the Malaysia–Thailand Peninsula

    Andrea D. Hawkes;Michael Bird;Susan Cowie;Carl Grundy-Warr

  • Tsunami in papua New Guinea was as intense as first thought

    Yoshiaka Kawata;Boyd C. Benson;José C. Borrero;José L. Borrero

  • Extreme Events: A Physical Reconstruction and Risk Assessment

    Jonathan Nott

  • Geological Indicators of Large Tsunami in Australia

    E. A. Bryant;J. Nott

  • Sand beach ridges record 6000 year history of extreme tropical cyclone activity in northeastern Australia

    Jonathan Nott;Scott Smithers;Kevin Walsh;Ed Rhodes

  • Palaeotempestology: the study of prehistoric tropical cyclones--a review and implications for hazard assessment.

    Jonathan Nott

  • The tsunami hypothesis—comparisons of the field evidence against the effects, on the Western Australian coast, of some of the most powerful storms on Earth

    Jonathan Nott

  • Tsunami or storm waves? Determining the origin of a spectacular field of wave emplaced boulders using numerical storm surge and wave models and hydrodynamic transport equations

    Jonathan Nott

  • Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 550–1,500 years

    Jordahna Haig;Jonathan Nott;Gert-Jan Reichart

  • Wearing Down, Wearing Back, and Gorge Extension in the Long-Term Denudation of a Highland Mass: Quantitative Evidence from the Shoalhaven Catchment, Southeast Australia

    Jonathan Nott;Robert Young;Ian McDougall

  • Greater frequency variability of landfalling tropical cyclones at centennial compared to seasonal and decadal scales

    Jonathan Nott;Jordahna Haig;Helen Neil;David Gillieson

  • Plunge pools and paleoprecipitation

    Jonathan Nott;David Price

  • A 6000 year tropical cyclone record from Western Australia

    Jonathan Nott

  • Stable Isotope Anatomy of Tropical Cyclone Ita, North-Eastern Australia, April 2014

    Niels Munksgaard;Costijn Zwart;Naoyuki Kurita;Adrian Bass

  • Beach ridge plain evidence of a variable late-Holocene tropical cyclone climate, North Queensland, Australia

    Anthony J. Forsyth;Jonathan Nott;Mark D. Bateman

  • Intensity of prehistoric tropical cyclones

    Jonathan F. Nott

  • Tropical Cyclones and the Evolution of the Sedimentary Coast of Northern Australia

    Jonathan Nott

  • Extreme marine inundations (Tsunamis?) of Coastal Western Australia

    Jonathan Nott;Edward Bryant

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Price
David M. Price University of Wollongong
Catherine Chagué-Goff
Catherine Chagué-Goff University of New South Wales
James Goff
James Goff University of New South Wales
Edward J. Rhodes
Edward J. Rhodes University of Sheffield
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Scott G. Smithers
Scott G. Smithers James Cook University
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Robert J. Wasson
Robert J. Wasson Australian National University
Costas E. Synolakis
Costas E. Synolakis University of Southern California

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