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Oscar Alves is affiliated with the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. Their research focuses broadly on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science. They have also contributed to areas including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered by their work include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, geophysics and gravity measurements, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, as well as hydrology and drought analysis.

Oscar Alves has published multiple papers, with recent research articles including:

  • ACCESS-S2: the upgraded Bureau of Meteorology multi-week to seasonal prediction system (2022), Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science
  • Sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction of rainfall extremes in Australia (2020), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Variability of ENSO Forecast Skill in 2-Year Global Reforecasts Over the 20th Century (2022), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Contrasting El Niño-La Niña Predictability and Prediction Skill in 2-Year Reforecasts of the Twentieth Century (2022), Journal of Climate
  • Developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean (2022), ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequently publishing venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth System Science
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

Oscar Alves collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors who contribute across various projects. Frequent collaborators include Harry H. Hendon, Debra Hudson, Andrew G. Marshall, Eun-Pa Lim, and Xiaobing Zhou.

Best Publications

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

    M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

  • Prediction of the Madden–Julian oscillation with the POAMA dynamical prediction system

    Harun A. Rashid;Harun A. Rashid;Harry H. Hendon;Matthew C. Wheeler;Oscar Alves

  • Seasonal forecasting of tuna habitat for dynamic spatial management

    Alistair J. Hobday;Jason R. Hartog;Claire M. Spillman;Oscar Alves

  • An Ensemble Ocean Data Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction

    Yonghong Yin;Oscar Alves;Peter R. Oke

  • Prospects for predicting two flavors of El Niño

    Harry H. Hendon;Eunpa Lim;Guomin Wang;Oscar Alves

  • How are seasonal prediction skills related to models’ performance on mean state and annual cycle?

    June-Yi Lee;Bin Wang;I.-S. Kang;J. Shukla

  • Improving Intraseasonal Prediction with a New Ensemble Generation Strategy

    Debra Hudson;Andrew G. Marshall;Yonghong Yin;Oscar Alves

  • How Predictable is the Indian Ocean Dipole

    Li Shi;Harry H. Hendon;Oscar Alves;Jing-Jia Luo

  • ACCESS-S1 The new Bureau of Meteorology multi-week to seasonal prediction system

    Debra Hudson;Oscar Alves;Harry H. Hendon;Eun-Pa Lim

  • Intra-seasonal drivers of extreme heat over Australia in observations and POAMA-2

    A. G. Marshall;D. Hudson;M. C. Wheeler;O. Alves

  • The impact of atmospheric initialisation on seasonal prediction of tropical Pacific SST

    Debra Hudson;Oscar Alves;Harry H. Hendon;Guomin Wang

  • Sensitivity of dynamical seasonal forecasts to ocean initial conditions

    Oscar Alves;Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda;David Anderson;Tim Stockdale

  • Inter-basin sources for two-year predictability of the multi-year La Niña event in 2010-2012.

    Jing-Jia Luo;Guoqiang Liu;Harry Hendon;Oscar Alves

  • How predictable is the northern hemisphere summer upper-tropospheric circulation?

    June-Yi Lee;Bin Wang;Q. Ding;K.-J. Ha

  • Ocean Initialization for Seasonal Forecasts

    Magdalena A. Balmaseda;Oscar J. Alves;Alberto Arribas;Toshiyuki Awaji

  • Bridging the gap between weather and seasonal forecasting: intraseasonal forecasting for Australia

    Debra Hudson;Oscar Alves;Harry H. Hendon;Andrew G. Marshall

  • The Experimental MJO Prediction Project

    Duane Waliser;Klaus Weickmann;Randall Dole;Siegfried Schubert

  • Steric sea level variability (1993–2010) in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses and objective analyses

    Andrea Storto;Simona Masina;Magdalena Balmaseda;Stéphanie Guinehut

  • Indian Ocean Variability and Its Association with ENSO in a Global Coupled Model

    Aihong Zhong;Harry H. Hendon;Oscar Alves

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry H. Hendon
Harry H. Hendon Bureau of Meteorology
Andrew G. Marshall
Andrew G. Marshall Bureau of Meteorology
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Jing-Jia Luo
Jing-Jia Luo Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Matthew C. Wheeler
Matthew C. Wheeler Bureau of Meteorology
Eun-Pa Lim
Eun-Pa Lim Bureau of Meteorology
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin Met Office
Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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