Peer-reviewed publications

A list of peer-reviewed publications under Climate Present and Past, organised by financial year.

2015-2016

Fauchereau, N.C., Pohl, B., Lorrey, A.M. 2016. Extra-tropical impacts of the Madden-Julian Oscillation over New Zealand from an atmospheric circulation regime perspective. Journal of Climate, 29, 2161-2175. 

Lorrey, A.M., Brookman, T., Evans, M.N., Fauchereau, N.C., Barbour, M.M, Macinnis-Ng, C., Criscitiello, A.S., Eischeid, G., Horton, T.W., Fowler, A.M., Schrag, D.P. 2016. Stable oxygen isotope signatures of early season wood in New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) tree rings: Prospects for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Dendrochronologia, 40, 50-63. 

Lorrey, A.M. and Chappell, P.R. 2016. The "Dirty Weather" diaries of Reverend Richard Davis: insights about early Colonial-era meteorology and climate variability for Northern New Zealand, 1839–1851. Climate of the Past, 12, 553-573, doi:10.5194/cpd-12-553-2016 

Mullan, A.B. 2016. Intertropical convergence zones – the Pacific. In ‘The Tropics” State of the Climate in 2015, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press

Pearce, P.R., Lorrey, A.M. and Diamond, H.J. 2016. Southwest Pacific Basin [in “State of the Climate in 2015”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press 

Purdie, H., Rack, W., Anderson, B., Kerr, T., Chinn, T., Owens, I. and Linton, M. 2015. The impact of extreme summer melt on net accumulation of an avalanche fed glacier, as determined by ground-penetrating radar. Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography, 97, 779-791. DOI: 1111/geoa. 2117.

2014-2015

Chinn, T. and Mason, P. 2015. The first 25 years of the hydrology of the Onyx River, Wright Valley, Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Polar Record, 52 (1): 16-65. doi:10.1017/S0032247415000212

Chinn, T., Kargel, J.S., Leonard, G.J., Haritashya, U.K. and Pleasants, M. 2014. New Zealand’s glaciers, in: Kargel, J.S., Leonard, G.J., Bishop, M.P., Kaab, A. and Raup, B.H. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space. Springer 2014, 876 pp

Conway, J., Cullen, N.J., Spronken-Smith, R.A., and Fitzsimons, S.J. 2015: All-sky radiation over a glacier surface in the Southern Alps of New Zealand: characterising cloud effects on incoming shortwave, longwave and net radiation. International Journal of Climatology., 35: 699-713, doi: 10.1002/joc.4014.

Conway, J.P., and Cullen, N.J. 2015. Cloud effects on the surface energy and mass balance of Brewster Glacier, New Zealand. The Cryosphere Discussion, 9: 975-1019, doi:10.5194/tcd-9-975-2015.

Lorrey, A.M. Fauchereau, N.C. and Diamond, H.D. 2015. Tropical Cyclones – The Southwest Pacific basin. In: State of the Climate in 2014, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96 (7): S119-S120.

Lorrey, A.M., and Chappell, P.R. 2015. The “Dirty Weather” diaries of Reverend Richard Davis: Insights about early Colonial-era meteorology and climate variability for Northern New Zealand, 1839-1851. Climates of the Past Discussion, 11: 3799-3851. doi:10.5194/cpd-11-3799-2015

Mullan, A.B. 2015. Intertropical Convergence Zones. In: State of the Climate in 2014, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 96 (7): S97-S99.

Palmer, J.G., Turney, C.S.M., Hogg, A., Lorrey, A.M. and Jones, R. 2015. Refining the global radiocarbon calibration curve using New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis): New radiocarbon-dated tree ring series from Oxygen Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Geochronology, 27, 158-163.

Purdie, H., Anderson, B., Chinn, T., Owens, I., Mackintosh, A., and Lawson, W. 2014. Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, New Zealand: Historic length records. Global and Planetary Change, 121: 41-52

Zemp, M., Frey, H., Gärtner-Roer, I., Nussbaumer, S.U., Hoelzle, M., Paul, F., Haeberli, W., Denzinger, F., Ahlstrøm, A.P., Anderson, B., Bajracharya, S., Baroni, C., Braun, L.N., Cáceres, B.E.,Casassa, G., Cobos, G., Dávila, L.R., Granados, H.D. Demuth, M.N., Espizua, L., Fischer, A., Fujita, K., Gadek, B., Ghazanfar, A., Hagen, J.O., Holmlund, P., Karimi, N., Li, Z., Pelto, M., Pitte, P., Popovnin, V.V., Portocarrero, C.A., Prinz, R., Sangewar, C.V., Severskiy, I., Sigurðsson, O., Soruco, A., Usubaliev, R. and Vincent. C. 2015. Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century.Journal of Glaciology, 61 (228): 745-762

2013-2014

Ahmed, M., Anchuckaitis, K.J., Kaufmann, D., Lorrey, A.M. and 74 others. 2013. Continental-scale temperature variability over the Common Era, Nature – Geoscience, 6: 339-346.

Boswijk, G., Fowler, A.M., Palmer, J.G., Fenwick, P., Hogg, A., Lorrey, A.M., and Wunder, J. 2014. The late Holocene kauri chronology: assessing the potential of a 4500-year record for palaeoclimate reconstruction, Quaternary Science Reviews, 90: 128-142.

Chappell, P.R. and Lorrey, A.M. 2013. Identifying New Zealand, Southeast Australia, and Southwest Pacific historical weather data sources using Ian Nicholson’s Log of Logs, Geoscience Data Journal,1 (1): 49-60.

Cohen, L. and Dean, S. 2013. Snow on the Ross Ice Shelf: comparison of reanalyses and observations from automatic weather stations, The Cryosphere, 7: 1399-1410.

Conway, J.P. and Cullen, N.J. 2013. Constraining turbulent heat flux parameterization over a temperate maritime glacier in New Zealand, Annals of Glaciology, 54 (63) 41-51.

Diamond, H.J, Lorrey, A.M. and Renwick, J.A. 2013. A Southwest Pacific tropical cyclone climatology and linkages to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Journal of Climate, 26: 3-25.

Gallant, A., Phipps, S.J., Karoly, D.J., Mullan, A.B. and Lorrey, A.M. 2013. Non-stationary Australasian teleconnections and implications for paleoclimate reconstructions, Journal of Climate, 26, 8827–8849.

Gergis, J., Hope, P., Abram, N., Brown, J., Drysdale, R., Henley, B.J., Lorrey, A.M., Phipps, S.J., Roop, H., Tyler, J. (2014) AUS2K meeting: Australasia's past climate variability. Quaternary Australasia, 31(2): 20-23.

Griffiths G.M. 2013. New Zealand six main centre extreme rainfall trends 1962-2011. Weather and Climate, 33: 76-88

Griffiths, G.M. 2013. Updated trends in New Zealand station rainfall 1962-2011, Weather and Climate

Kruk, M., Lorrey, A., Griffiths, G., Lander, M., Gibney, E., Diamond, H. and Marra, J. 2014. On the state of the knowledge of rainfall extremes in the Pacific basin, International Journal of Climatology, 35 (3): 321-336.

Lorrey A.M., Bostock H.C. 2014. Australasia – An overview of modern climate and palaeoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum, in Beattie, J., O’Gorman, E. and Henry, M. Climate, Science, and Colonisation: Histories from Australia and New Zealand, Palgrave MacMillan, pp 19-42.

Lorrey, A., Fauchereau, N., Stanton, C., Chappell, P., Phipps, S., Mackintosh, A., Renwick, J., Goodwin, I. and Fowler, A. 2014. The Little Ice Age climate of New Zealand reconstructed from Southern Alps cirque glaciers: a synoptic type approach.Climate Dynamics, 42, 3039-3060.

Lorrey, A.M., Fauchereau, N., Chappell, P., Ready, S. and Diamond, H.J. 2014. Tropical Cyclones – The Southwest Pacific basin. In: State of the Climate in 2013, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (7): S98-S99.

Lorrey, A.M., Griffiths, G.M., Fauchereau, N., Chappell, P., Diamond, H.J. and Renwick, J.A. 2013. An ex-tropical cyclone climatology for Auckland, New Zealand, International Journal of Climatology, 34 (4) 1157-1168.

Macara, G. and Chappell, P. 2014. New Zealand, In: State of the Climate in 2013, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95 (7): S212-S213

Mullan, A.B. 2014. Intertropical Convergence Zones. In: State of the Climate in 2013, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 95 (7): S103-S104.

Provision of End of Summer Snowline survey data and mass balance data to the IPCC AR5 for Chapter 4 “Observations: Cryosphere”.

2012-2013

Chappell, P.R. and Griffiths, G.M. 2013. Oceania - New Zealand. In State of the Climate in 2012, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (8): S198-S200.

Chinn, T., Fitzharris, B. B., Willsman, A. & Salinger, M. J. 2012. Annual ice volume changes 1976-2008 for the New Zealand Southern Alps. Global and Planetary Change., 92-93: 105-118.

Cohen, L., Dean, S., Renwick, J.A. 2013. Synoptic weather types for the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica. Journal of Climate, 26: 636-649.

Fowler, A. M., Boswijk, G., Lorrey, A. M., Gergis, J., Pirie, M., McCloskey, S. P. J., Palmer, J. G. & Wunder, J. 2012. Multi-centennial tree-ring record of ENSO-related activity in New Zealand. Nature Climate Change., Vol. 2, no. 3, 172-176.

Gallant, A., Phipps, S.J., Karoly, D.J., Mullan, A.B., and Lorrey, A.M. 2013. Non-stationary Australasian teleconnections and implications for paleoclimate reconstructions, Journal of Climate, 26 (22): 8827-8849.

Hart, N., Reason, C.J.C. and Fauchereau, N. 2013. Cloud bands over southern Africa: seasonality, contribution to rainfall variability, and modulation by the MJO, Climate Dynamics, 41: 1199-1212.

Lorrey, A.M., Fauchereau, N., Chappell, P. and Diamond, H.J. 2013. Tropical Cyclones – The Southwest Pacific basin. In: State of the Climate in 2012, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (8): S96-S98.

Mullan, A.B. 2013. Intertropical Convergence Zones. In: State of the Climate in 2012, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 94 (8): S101-S103.

Provision of EOSS and mass balance data to the IPCC AR5 for Chapter 4 "Observations: Cryosphere"

2011-2012

Diamond, H.J., Lorrey, A.M., Knapp, K.R. and Levinson, D.H. 2011. Development of an enhanced tropical cyclone tracks database for the southwest Pacific from 1840 to 2010, International Journal of Climatology, 32 (14): 2240-2250.

Griffiths, G.M. 2012. New Zealand. In: State of the Climate in 2011, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93 (7): S221–S224.

Hart, N., Reason, C.J.R, and Fauchereau, N. 2012. Building a Tropical-Extratropical cloud band metbot, Monthly Weather Review, 140: 4005-4016.

Horrell, G.A., McKerchar, A.M., Griffiths, G.M. and Griffiths, G.A. 2012. Note: South Island storm and floods of December 2010, New Zealand Journal of Hydrology, 51 (1): 63-81.

Jiang, N., Griffiths, G. and Lorrey, A. 2012. Influence of large-scale climate modes on daily synoptic weather types over New Zealand, International Journal of Climatology, 33 (2): 499-519.

Lorrey, A.M., Dalu, G., Renwick, J., Diamond, H. and Gaetani, M. 2012. Reconstructing the South Pacific Convergence Zone during the pre-satellite era: a La Niña case study, Monthly Weather Review, 140: 3653-3668.

Lorrey, A.M., McGree, S., Renwick, J.A. and Hugony, S. 2011. Tropical Cyclones – The Southwest Pacific basin. In: State of the Climate in 2010, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92 (6): S129-S130.

Mullan, A.B. 2012. Intertropical Convergence Zones. In: State of the Climate in 2011, Bulletin American Meteorological Society, 93 (6): S132-S134.

Mullan, B. 2012. Applying the Rhoades and Salinger method to New Zealand’s “Seven-station” temperature series, Weather and Climate, 32 (1): 23-37.

Renwick, J. A. 2011. Kidson’s synoptic weather types and surface climate variability over New Zealand. Weather and Climate, 31, 3-23.

Renwick, J. A., Kohout, A. and Dean, S. 2012. Atmospheric forcing of Antarctic sea ice on intraseasonal time scales, Journal of Climate, 25: 5962-5975.