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Overview

Nerilie J. Abram is a researcher affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their work spans multiple aspects of Earth and environmental sciences, with a focus on understanding climate variability and its impacts.

Their recent research includes notable publications such as:

  • Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium, 2020, Nature
  • Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change, 2022, Nature
  • Palaeoclimate perspectives on the Indian Ocean Dipole, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo- δ 18 O and δ 2 H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate, 2020, Earth system science data

Their work is published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Nature
  • Climate of the Past
  • Earth system science data
  • Weather and Climate Extremes

Coauthor collaborations highlight ongoing partnerships with several frequent collaborators:

  • Nicky M. Wright
  • Georgina Falster
  • Matthew H. England
  • Tessa R. Vance
  • Caroline C. Ummenhofer

Their main fields of study are:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

More specifically, their subfields of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

The core topics addressed in their research focus on:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

This research portfolio reflects an integration of paleoclimate data, climate variability studies, and their effects on ecosystems and ice dynamics, providing a comprehensive view into ongoing environmental changes at both regional and global scales.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Evolution of the Southern Annular Mode during the past millennium

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Robert Mulvaney;Françoise Vimeux;Steven J. Phipps

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

    Nerilie J. Abram;Helen V. McGregor;Jessica E. Tierney;Jessica E. Tierney;Michael N. Evans

  • Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history

    Robert Mulvaney;Nerilie Abram;Nerilie Abram;Richard C.A. Hindmarsh;Carol Arrowsmith

  • Recent intensification of tropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Michael K. Gagan;Julia E. Cole;Wahyoe S. Hantoro

  • Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

    Julie M. Jones;Sarah T. Gille;Hugues Goosse;Nerilie J. Abram

  • Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires

    Nerilie J. Abram;Michael K. Gagan;Malcolm T. McCulloch;John Chappell

  • Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives

    Jessica E. Tierney;Nerilie J. Abram;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Michael N. Evans

  • Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades relative to past centuries

    Mandy B. Freund;Benjamin J. Henley;David J. Karoly;David J. Karoly;Helen V. McGregor

  • Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Katrin J Meissner;Alan C Mix;Nerilie J Abram

  • Seasonal characteristics of the Indian Ocean Dipole during the Holocene epoch

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Michael K. Gagan;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Wahyoe S. Hantoro

  • Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years

    Barbara Stenni;Mark A. J. Curran;Mark A. J. Curran;Nerilie J. Abram;Anais Orsi

  • A review of past and projected changes in Australia's rainfall

    Raktima Dey;Sophie C. Lewis;Julie M. Arblaster;Julie M. Arblaster;Nerilie J. Abram

  • Acceleration of snow melt in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core during the twentieth century

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Robert Mulvaney;Eric W. Wolff;Jack Triest;Jack Triest

  • Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nicky M. Wright;Bethany Ellis;Bronwyn C. Dixon;Bronwyn C. Dixon

  • A review of sea ice proxy information from polar ice cores

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Eric W. Wolff;Mark A.J. Curran

  • Oscillations in the southern extent of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the mid-Holocene

    Nerilie J. Abram;Nerilie J. Abram;Helen V. McGregor;Helen V. McGregor;Michael K. Gagan;Wahyoe S. Hantoro

  • Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

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  • Ice core evidence for a 20th century decline of sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

    Nerilie J. Abram;Elizabeth R. Thomas;Joseph R. McConnell;Robert Mulvaney

  • Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene.

    Simon Schüpbach;Hubertus Fischer;M. Bigler;Tobias Erhardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen McGregor
Helen McGregor University of Wollongong
Steven J. Phipps
Steven J. Phipps University of Tasmania
Raphael Neukom
Raphael Neukom University of Bern
Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Belen Martrat
Belen Martrat Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research
Hans W. Linderholm
Hans W. Linderholm University of Gothenburg
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Michael N. Evans
Michael N. Evans University of Maryland, College Park

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