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Nigel J. Tapper

Nigel J. Tapper

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
14358
World Ranking
2903
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Nigel J. Tapper is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Building and Construction, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Recent papers associated with their research include:

  • Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions, 2021, Environment International
  • An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban-PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results, 2023, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Andrew Coutts
  • Sue Grimmond
  • Valéry Masson
  • Mathew Lipson
  • Martin Best

Key publication venues where their work has appeared multiple times are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • Urban Climate
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • 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

  • The weather and climate of Australia and New Zealand

    Andrew P Sturman;Nigel James Tapper

  • Watering our cities The capacity for Water Sensitive Urban Design to support urban cooling and improve human thermal comfort in the Australian context

    Andrew McDonald Coutts;Nigel James Tapper;Jason Beringer;Margaret Elizabeth Loughnan

  • Temperature and human thermal comfort effects of street trees across three contrasting street canyon environments

    Andrew M. Coutts;Emma C. White;Nigel J. Tapper;Jason Beringer

  • Impact of Increasing Urban Density on Local Climate: Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Surface Energy Balance in Melbourne, Australia

    Andrew McDonald Coutts;Jason Beringer;Nigel James Tapper

  • Quantifying the influence of local meteorology on air quality using generalized additive models

    John L. Pearce;Jason Beringer;Neville Nicholls;Rob J. Hyndman

  • The Sensitivity of Australian Fire Danger to Climate Change

    Allyson A J Williams;David J Karoly;Nigel J Tapper

  • Assessing practical measures to reduce urban heat: Green and cool roofs

    Andrew McDonald Coutts;Edoardo Daly;Jason Beringer;Nigel James Tapper

  • Savanna fires and their impact on net ecosystem productivity in North Australia

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B. Hutley;Nigel J. Tapper;Lucas A. Cernusak

  • A comparison of air particulate matter and associated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in some tropical and temperate urban environments

    Barbara Panther;Martin A Hooper;Nigel J Tapper

  • An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B Hutley;Ian McHugh;Stefan K Arndt

  • Characteristics influencing the variability of urban CO2 fluxes in Melbourne, Australia

    Andrew McDonald Coutts;Jason Beringer;Nigel James Tapper

  • Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation

    Robert Webb;Xuemei Bai;Xuemei Bai;Mark Stafford Smith;Robert Costanza

  • Thermal infrared remote sensing of urban heat: Hotspots, vegetation, and an assessment of techniques for use in urban planning

    Andrew M. Coutts;Richard J. Harris;Thu Phan;Stephen J. Livesley

  • A simple heat alert system for Melbourne, Australia

    Neville Nicholls;Carol Skinner;Margaret Elisabeth Loughnan;Nigel James Tapper

  • A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions.

    Ranjeet S. Sokhi;Vikas Singh;Xavier Querol;Sandro Finardi

  • Fire impacts on surface heat, moisture and carbon fluxes from a tropical savanna in northern Australia

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay Beaumont Hutley;Nigel J Tapper;Andrew McDonald Coutts

  • Regional variability in relationships between climate and dengue/DHF in Indonesia

    Paula Jacqueline Arcari;Nigel James Tapper;Sharron Louise Pfueller

  • An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

    Naika Meili;Gabriele Manoli;Gabriele Manoli;Paolo Burlando;Elie Bou-Zeid

  • Savanna fires and their impact on Net ecosystem productivity

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay Beaumont Hutley;N. J. Tapper

Frequent Co-Authors

Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Neville Nicholls
Neville Nicholls Monash University
Matthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere Ruhr University Bochum
Amanda H. Lynch
Amanda H. Lynch Brown University
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Andrew Sturman
Andrew Sturman University of Canterbury
Stephen J. Livesley
Stephen J. Livesley University of Melbourne
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Lucas A. Cernusak
Lucas A. Cernusak James Cook University

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