Professor Andy Pitman - Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
About a third of my time is spent teaching. I have a significant contribution to two undergraduate units:
- GEOS 114 (Global Environmental Crises)
- GEOS 301 (Global Climates)
I also teach in two other units:
- GEOS216 (The Atmospheric Environment)
- PHYS220 (Scientific Modelling)
I have a CUTSD grant to implement some major simulation packages into my teaching (all with WWW interfaces) and to use the most appropriate forms of Information Technology (IT) into my teaching program.
I also teach at the graduate level - mainly though the supervision of Honours and Ph.D students. If you think you might be interested in doing a research project in the types of areas (click here for those areas) I'm interested in, please give me a call.
Honors and Postgraduate Supervision
Present and recent students:
| Name | Thesis type & year |
Title |
| C. E. Desborough | BSc (Hons), 1993 | Which climate parameters control of response of transpiration to CO2 induced climate change |
| A.G. Slater | BSc (Hons), 1996 | An Investigation of Snow and
Frozen Soil Moisture in a Land Surface Scheme
[Abstract] |
| Publications: Pitman, A.J., Slater, A.G., Desborough, C.E. and Zhao, M., 1999, Uncertainty in the simulation of runoff due to the parameterization of frozen soil moisture using the GSWP methodology, J. Geophysical Research, 104, 16879-16888. Slater, A.G., Pitman, A.J. and Desborough, C.E., 1998, The simulation of freeze-thaw cycles in a GCM Land Surface Scheme, J. Geophysical Research (Atmosphere), 103, 11303-11312. Slater, A.G., Pitman, A.J. and Desborough, C.E., 1998, The validation of a snow parameterization designed for use in General Circulation Models, Int. J. Climatology, 18, 595-617. | ||
| H. Kirkup | BSc (Hons), 1996 | A preliminary investigation of streamflow variability in coastal NSW utilizing Wavelet analysis techniques |
| Publications: Kirkup, H. Brierley, G., Brooks, A. and A.J. Pitman, Temporal variability of climate in southeastern Australia - a reassessment of flood- and drought- dominated regimes, 1998, Australian Geographer, 29, 241-255. Kirkup, H., Pitman, A.J. and Brierley, G., Analysing River Discharge And Rainfall in Coastal New South Wales, Australia using Wavelet Transforms, Australian Geographical Studies, accepted. | ||
| K. McDonnell | BSc (Hons), 1996 | Development of a methodology for simulating air pollution in the Sydney Basin under 2 x CO2 conditions |
| W. Hallgren | BSc (Hons), 1998 | The sensitivity of a global biome model to uncertainty in parameter values [Abstract] |
| Publications: Hallgren, W.S. and Pitman, A.J., 2000, The Sensitivity of a Global Biome Model (BIOME3) to Uncertainty in Parameter Values, Global Change Biology, 6, 483-495. |
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| M. Leplastrier | BSc (Hons), 2000 | A thesis on the use of the multicriteria calibration procedure using CHASM [Abstract] |
| C. E. Desborough | PhD, 1999 | Evaporative surface stress in land surface models: impact of inter-model parameterisation differences |
| Publications: Desborough, C.E., Pitman, A.J., McAvaney, B., Surface energy balance complexity in GCM land surface models, Part II: coupled simulations, Climate Dynamics, 17, 615-626. C.E. Desborough, 1997. The impact of root?weighting on the response of transpiration to moisture stress in land surface schemes, Monthly Weather Review, 125, 1920-1930. Desborough, C.E, 1999, Surface energy balance complexity in GCM land surface models, Climate Dynamics, 15, 389-403. Desborough, C.E. and Pitman, A.J., 1998, The BASE land surface model, Global and Planetary Change, 19, 3-18. Desborough, C.E., Pitman, A.J. and Irannejad, P., 1996, Analysis of the Relationship Between Bare Soil Evaporation and Soil Moisture Simulated by 13 Land Surface Schemes for a Simple Non-Vegetated Site, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 47-56. | ||
| Z. Zhao | PhD, 2001 | A thesis focussing on the impact of land cover change on the climate at global and regional scales, submitted. [Abstract] |
| Publications: Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J. and Chase, T., 2001, The Impact of Land Cover Change on the Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Dynamics, 17, 467-477. Pitman, A.J. and Zhao, M., 2000, The relative Impact of observed change in land cover and carbon dioxide as simulated by a climate model, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 1267-1270. Pitman, A.J., Zhao, M. and Desborough, C.E., Investigating the sensitivity of a land surface scheme to spatial and temporal leaf area index variability within the Global Soil Wetness Project, 1999, J. Meteorological Society of Japan, 77, 281-290. Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J. and Chase, T., Climatic effects of land cover change at different carbon dioxide levels, Climate Research, submitted. Zhao, M. and Pitman, A.J. The regional scale impact of land cover change simulated with a climate model, International J. Climatology, submitted. | ||