Professor Hamish McGowan
Professor
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 56651
Chamberlain Building (35), Room 529
Course coordinator and lecturer GEOS2100
Course coordinator and lecturer GEOS2101
Course coordinator and lecturer GEOS3108
Course lecturer GEOS1100
Academic Supervisor GEOS3400
Academic Supervisor SCIE3210
Guest Lecturer GEOS3103
Guest Lecturer GEOS3102
Guest Lecture MARS3012
Academic Supervisor of Honours Degree Students and PhD candidates
Researcher biography
Professor Hamish McGowan is a Geographer and Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences with research interests in: Local and regional scale windfields in complex terrain, Severe weather (thunderstorms, bushfire meteorology), Earth surface – atmosphere energy and trace gas exchanges, Aeolian dust transport (meteorological controls on wind erosion, dust transport and the impacts on regional and global climate dynamics), Palaeoclimate reconstructions, Mountain meteorology and hydroclimate. He leads the Atmospheric Observations Research Group https://sites.google.com/view/uqaorg/home
Hamish received his PhD from the University of Canterbury in 1995. His research interests are in the fields of:
- Meteorological hazards
- Earth surface - atmosphere interactions and energetics
- The Weather and Climates of Alpine and Mountainous Regions
- Long Range Dust Transport and Climate Impacts
- Climate dynamics
- Palaeoclimate reconstruction
Book Chapters
Sturman, Andrew P. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2013). Climate. The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society. Revised Edition. (pp. 1-18) edited by Moshe Rapaport. Honolulu, HI, USA: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Marx, Samuel K. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2010). Long-distance transport of urban and industrial metals and their incorporation into the environment: Sources, transport pathways and historical trends. Urban airborne particulate matter: Origin, chemistry, fate and health impacts. (pp. 103-124) edited by Fathi Zereini and Clare L. S. Wiseman. Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12278-1_6
McGowan, H. A. (2001). Aeolian processes and landforms. The physical environment: a New Zealand perspective. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Andrew Sturman and Rachel Spronken-Smith. New York, USA: Oxford University Press.
Sturman, Andrew P. and McGowan, Hamish A. (1999). Climate. The Pacific islands : environment and society. (pp. 3-18) edited by Moshe Rapaport. Hawaii, Honolulu: Bess Press.
Journal Articles
López-Moreno, J.I., Callow, N., McGowan, H., Webb, R., Schwartz, A., Bilish, S., Revuelto, J., Gascoin, S., Deschamps-Berger, C. and Alonso-González, E. (2024). Marginal snowpacks: The basis for a global definition and existing research needs. Earth-Science Reviews, 252 104751, 104751. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104751
Brook, Jordan P., Soderholm, Joshua S., Protat, Alain, McGowan, Hamish and Warren, Robert A. (2024). A Radar-Based Hail Climatology of Australia. Monthly Weather Review, 152 (2), 607-628. doi: 10.1175/mwr-d-23-0130.1
Guyot, Adrien, Brook, Jordan P., Protat, Alain, Turner, Kathryn, Soderholm, Joshua, McCarthy, Nicholas F. and McGowan, Hamish (2023). Segmentation of polarimetric radar imagery using statistical texture. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16 (19), 4571-4588. doi: 10.5194/amt-16-4571-2023
Brook, Jordan P., Protat, Alain, Potvin, Corey K., Soderholm, Joshua S. and McGowan, Hamish (2023). The effects of spatial interpolation on a novel, dual-doppler 3D wind retrieval technique. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40 (10), 1325-1347. doi: 10.1175/jtech-d-23-0004.1
McGowan, Hamish and Theobald, Alison (2023). Atypical weather patterns cause coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia during the 2021-2022 La Niña. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 6397, 6397. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33613-1
McCarthy, Nicholas F., McGowan, Hamish, Guyot, Adrien, Dowdy, Andrew, Sturgess, Andrew and Twomey, Ben (2023). Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32 (4), 545-560. doi: 10.1071/wf21146
Abir, Shai, McGowan, Hamish A., Shaked, Yonathan and Lensky, Nadav G. (2022). Identifying an evaporative thermal refugium for the preservation of coral reefs in a warming world—The Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (24) e2022JD036845. doi: 10.1029/2022jd036845
Tau, G., Enzel, Y., McGowan, H., Lyakhovsky, V. and Lensky, N. G. (2022). Air-water interactions regulating water temperature of lakes: direct observations (Agamon Hula, Israel) and analytical solutions. Journal of Hydrology, 614 (Part A) 128515, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128515
Brook, Jordan P., Protat, Alain, Soderholm, Joshua S., Warren, Robert A. and McGowan, Hamish (2022). A variational interpolation method for gridding weather radar data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39 (11), 1633-1654. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0015.1
McGowan, Hamish, Lensky, Nadav, Abir, Shai, Shaked, Yonathan and Wurgaft, Eyal (2022). Direct measurement of CO2 air‐sea exchange over a desert fringing coral reef, Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba), Israel. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (10) e2022JC018548, 1-15. doi: 10.1029/2022jc018548
Borthwick, Kara and McGowan, Hamish (2022). A comparison of northwest cloudbands and landfalling atmospheric rivers over Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 42 (10), 5073-5091. doi: 10.1002/joc.7520
McGowan, Hamish, Lensky, Nadav G., Abir, Shai and Saunders, Melissa (2022). Coral reef coupling to the atmospheric boundary layer through exchanges of heat, moisture, and momentum: case studies from tropical and desert fringing coral reefs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9 900679, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.900679
Marx, S.K., May, J-H, Cohen, T., Kamber, B.S., McGowan, H.A. and Petherick, L. (2022). Dust emissions from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre: a review. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 146 (1), 1-39. doi: 10.1080/03721426.2022.2054918
Schwartz, Andrew, McGowan, Hamish and Callow, Nik (2021). Influence of bushfire on accumulation and ablation of a marginal montane snowpack in Snow Gum forests. Journal of Hydrology, 603 126795, 126795. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126795
Schwartz, Andrew, McGowan, Hamish and Callow, Nik (2021). Snowpack thermal patterns in pre- and post-bushfire Snow Gum forests. Journal of Hydrology, 602 126789, 126789. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126789
McGowan, Hamish, Borthwick, Kara, Schwartz, Andrew, Callow, John Nik, Bilish, Shane and Browning, Stuart (2021). Atmospheric rivers: an overlooked threat to the marginal snowpack of the Australian alps. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22 (10), 2521-2532. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0293.1
Lowry, Andrew L., McGowan, Hamish A. and Gray, Michael A. (2021). Multi-year carbon and water exchanges over contrasting ecosystems on a sub-tropical sand island. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 304-305 108404, 108404. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108404
Brook, Jordan P., Protat, Alain, Soderholm, Joshua, Carlin, Jacob T., McGowan, Hamish and Warren, Robert A. (2021). HailTrack — Improving radar-based hailfall estimates by modeling hail trajectories. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 60 (3), 237-254. doi: 10.1175/jamc-d-20-0087.1
Dowdy, Andrew J., Soderholm, Joshua, Brook, Jordan, Brown, Andrew and McGowan, Hamish (2020). Quantifying hail and lightning risk factors using long‐term observations around Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (21) 2020JD033101, 1-14. doi: 10.1029/2020jd033101
Schwartz, Andrew J., McGowan, Hamish and Callow, Nik (2020). Impact of fire on montane snowpack energy balance in Snow Gum forest stands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 294 108164, 108164. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108164
McGowan, Hamish, Campbell, Micheline, Callow, John Nikolaus, Lowry, Andrew and Wong, Henri (2020). Evidence of wet-dry cycles and mega-droughts in the Eemian climate of southeast Australia. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 18000, 18000. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75071-z
Schwartz, Andrew J., McGowan, Hamish A., Theobald, Alison and Callow, Nik (2020). Quantifying the impact of synoptic weather types and patterns on energy fluxes of a marginal snowpack. The Cryosphere, 14 (8), 2755-2774. doi: 10.5194/tc-14-2755-2020
McGowan, Hamish A., Lowry, Andrew L. and Gray, Michael A. (2020). Identification of optimum temperatures for photosynthetic production in subtropical coastal ecosystems – implications for CO2 sequestration in a warming world. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125 (8) e2020JG005678. doi: 10.1029/2020jg005678
McCarthy, N. F., Guyot, A., Protat, A., Dowdy, A. and McGowan, H. (2020). Tracking pyrometeors with meteorological radar using unsupervised machine learning. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (8) 2019GL084305. doi: 10.1029/2019gl084305
Bilish, Shane P., Callow, J. Nikolaus and McGowan, Hamish A. (2020). Streamflow variability and the role of snowmelt in a marginal snow environment. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 52 (1), 161-176. doi: 10.1080/15230430.2020.1746517
Terrasson, Alex, McCarthy, Nicholas, Dowdy, Andrew, Richter, Harald, McGowan, Hamish and Guyot, Adrien (2019). Weather radar insights into the turbulent dynamics of a wildfire‐triggered supercell thunderstorm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (15) 2018JD029986, 8645-8658. doi: 10.1029/2018jd029986
Bilish, Shane P., Callow, J. Nikolaus, McGrath, Gavan S. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2019). Spatial controls on the distribution and dynamics of a marginal snowpack in the Australian Alps. Hydrological Processes, 33 (12) hyp.13435, 1739-1755. doi: 10.1002/hyp.13435
McGowan, Hamish, Sturman, Andrew, Saunders, Melissa, Theobald, Alison and Wiebe, Andrew (2019). Insights from a decade of research on coral reef – atmosphere energetics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (8) 2018JD029830, 4269-4282. doi: 10.1029/2018jd029830
Schwartz, Andrew, McGowan, Hamish, Theobald, Alison and Callow, Nik (2019). Quantifying the impact of synoptic weather types, patterns, and trends on energy fluxes of a marginal snowpack. The Cryosphere Discussions, 1-47. doi: 10.5194/tc-2019-48
McCarthy, Nicholas, Guyot, Adrien, Dowdy, Andrew and McGowan, Hamish (2019). Wildfire and weather radar: a review. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (1) 2018JD029285, 266-286. doi: 10.1029/2018jd029285
Bilish, Shane P., McGowan, Hamish A. and Callow, John Nikolaus (2018). Energy balance and snowmelt drivers of a marginal subalpine snowpack. Hydrological Processes, 32 (26), 3837-3851. doi: 10.1002/hyp.13293
Gray, Michael A., McGowan, Hamish A., Guyot, Adrien and Lockington, David A. (2018). Impacts of fire and flood on land-surface–atmosphere energetics in a sub-tropical barrier island freshwater swamp. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 171 (1), 129-149. doi: 10.1007/s10546-018-0414-y
Field, Emily, Tyler, Jonathan, Gadd, Patricia S., Moss, Patrick, McGowan, Hamish and Marx, Sam (2018). Coherent patterns of environmental change at multiple organic spring sites in northwest Australia: evidence of Indonesian-Australian summer monsoon variability over the last 14,500 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 196, 193-216. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.018
Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S., McGowan, Hamish A., Petherick, Lynda M., McTainsh, Grant H., Stromsoe, Nicola, Hooper, James N. and May, Jan-Hendrik (2018). Palaeo-dust records: a window to understanding past environments. Global and Planetary Change, 165, 13-43. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.03.001
McCarthy, Nicholas, McGowan, Hamish, Guyot, Adrien and Dowdy, Andrew (2018). Mobile X-pol radar: a new tool for investigating pyroconvection and associated wildfire meteorology. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (6), 1177-1195. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0118.1
Theobald, Alison, Mcgowan, Hamish and Speirs, Johanna (2018). Teleconnection influence of precipitation-bearing synoptic types over the Snowy Mountains region of south-east Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 38 (6), 2743-2759. doi: 10.1002/joc.5457
Campbell, Micheline L., Callow, John N., McGrath, Gavan S. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2018). Co-authorship analysis of the speleothem proxy-climate community: working together to tackle the big problems. International Journal of Speleology, 47 (2), 165-172. doi: 10.5038/1827-806X.47.2.2159
McGowan, Hamish, Callow, John Nikolaus, Soderholm, Joshua, McGrath, Gavan, Campbell, Micheline and Zhao, Jian-Xin (2018). Global warming in the context of 2000 years of Australian alpine temperature and snow cover. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 4394, 4394. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22766-z
Field, Emily, Marx, Sam, Haig, Jordahna, May, Jan-Hendrik, Jacobsen, Geraldine, Zawadzki, Atun, Child, David, Heijnis, Henk, Hotchkis, Michael, McGowan, Hamish and Moss, Patrick (2018). Untangling geochronological complexity in organic spring deposits using multiple dating methods. Quaternary Geochronology, 43, 50-71. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.10.002
Campbell, Micheline, Callow, John Nikolaus, McGrath, Gavan and McGowan, Hamish (2017). A multimethod approach to inform epikarst drip discharge modelling: Implications for palaeo-climate reconstruction. Hydrological Processes, 31 (26), 4734-4747. doi: 10.1002/hyp.11392
Gray, Michael A., McGowan, Hamish A., Lowry, Andrew L. and Guyot, Adrien (2017). Surface energy exchanges over contrasting vegetation types on a sub-tropical sand island. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 81-99. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.018
McGowan, Hamish and Theobald, Alison (2017). ENSO weather and coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (20), 10601-10607. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074877
Soderholm, Joshua S., Mcgowan, Hamish A., Richter, Harald, Walsh, Kevin, Wedd, Tony and Weckwerth, Tammy M. (2017). Diurnal Preconditioning of Subtropical Coastal Convective Storm Environments. Monthly Weather Review, 145 (9), 3839-3859. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0330.1
Field, Emily, McGowan, Hamish A., Moss, Patrick T. and Marx, Samuel K. (2017). A late Quaternary record of monsoon variability in the northwest Kimberley, Australia. Quaternary International, 449, 119-135. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.019
Soderholm, J. S., McGowan, H., Richter, H., Walsh, K., Weckwerth, T. M. and Coleman, M. (2017). An 18-year climatology of hailstorm trends and related drivers across southeast Queensland, Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143 (703), 1123-1135. doi: 10.1002/qj.2995
Theobald, Alison and McGowan, Hamish (2016). Evidence of increased tropical moisture in southeast Australian alpine precipitation during ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (20), 10,901-10,908. doi: 10.1002/2016GL070767
Stromsoe, Nicola, Marx, Samuel K., Callow, Nikolaus, McGowan, Hamish A. and Heijnis, Henk (2016). Estimates of late Holocene soil production and erosion in the Snowy Mountains, Australia. Catena, 145, 68-82. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.05.013
Soderholm, Joshua, McGowan, Hamish, Richter, Harald, Walsh, Kevin, Weckwerth, Tammy and Coleman, Matthew (2016). The Coastal Convective Interactions Experiment (CCIE): understanding the role of sea breezes for hailstorm hotspots in Eastern Australia. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97 (9), 1687-1698. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00212.1
Mcgowan, Hamish A., Mackellar, Mellissa C. and Gray, Michael A. (2016). Direct measurements of air-sea CO2 exchange over a coral reef. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (9), 4602-4608. doi: 10.1002/2016GL068772
Theobald, Alison, McGowan, Hamish and Speirs, Johanna (2016). Trends in synoptic circulation and precipitation in the Snowy Mountains region, Australia, in the period 1958-2012. Atmospheric Research, 169 (Part B), 434-448. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.05.007
Petherick, L. M., Moss, P. T. and McGowan, H. A. (2016). An extended Last Glacial Maximum in subtropical Australia. Quaternary International, 432, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.015
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish and McJannet, Davod (2015). The Potential Effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Evaporation from Water Storage Reservoirs within the Lockyer Catchment, South-East Queensland, Australia. Marine and Feshwater Research, 67 (10), 1512-1521. doi: 10.1071/MF15193
Theobald, Alison., McGowan, Hamish., Speirs, Johanna. and Callow, Nik. (2015). A Synoptic Classification of Inflow-Generating Precipitation in the Snowy Mountains, Australia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54 (8), 1713-1732. doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0278.1
Stromsoe, Nicola, Marx, Samuel K., McGowan, Hamish A., Callow, Nikolaus, Heijnis, Henk and Zawadzki, Atun (2015). A landscape-scale approach to examining the fate of atmospherically derived industrial metals in the surficial environment. Science of the Total Environment, 505, 962-980. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.072
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, McJannet, David and Burn, Stewart (2014). Modelling sub-daily latent heat fluxes from a small reservoir. Journal of Hydrology, 519 (Part B), 2301-2311. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.10.032
De Vleeschouwer, François, Ferrat, M., McGowan, H., Vanneste, H. and Weiss, D. (2014). Extracting paleodust information from peat geochemistry. PAGES Magazine: Past Global Changes Magazine, 22 (2), 88-89.
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish and McJannet, David (2014). Effects of diurnal, intra-seasonal and seasonal climate variability on the energy balance of a small subtropical reservoir. International Journal of Climatology, 35 (9), 2308-2325. doi: 10.1002/joc.4147
Callow, Nik, McGowan, Hamish, Warren, Loredana and Speirs, Johanna (2014). Drivers of precipitation stable oxygen isotope variability in an alpine setting, Snowy Mountains, Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 119 (6), 3016-3031. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020710
McGowan, Hamish A., Neil, David T. and Speirs, Johanna C. (2014). A reinterpretation of geomorphological evidence for Glacial Lake Victoria, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Geomorphology, 208, 200-206. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.12.005
Steinhoff, Daniel A., Bromwich, David H., Speirs, Johanna C., McGowan, Hamish A. and Monaghan, Andrew J. (2014). Austral summer foehn winds over the McMurdo dry valleys of Antarctica from Polar WRF. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140 (683), 1825-1837. doi: 10.1002/qj.2278
Marx, Samuel K., McGowan, Hamish A., Kamber, Balz S., Knight, Jon M., Denholm, John and Zawadzki, Atun (2014). Unprecedented wind erosion and perturbation of surface geochemistry marks the Anthropocene in Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, Early View (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1002/2013JF002948
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, McJannet, David, Cook, Freeman, Sogachev, Andrey and Burn, Stewart (2014). Quantification of surface energy fluxes from a small water body using scintillometry and eddy covariance. Water Resource Research, 50 (1), 494-513. doi: 10.1002/2013WR013899
Hewson, Michael, McGowan, Hamish, Phinn, Stuart, Peckham, Steven and Grell, Georg (2013). Exploring aerosol effects on rainfall for Brisbane, Australia. Climate, 1 (3), 120-147. doi: 10.3390/cli1030120
Stromsoe, Nicola, Callow, J. Nikolaus, McGowan, Hamish A. and Marx, Samuel K. (2013). Attribution of sources to metal accumulation in an alpine tarn, the Snowy Mountains, Australia. Environmental Pollution, 181, 133-143. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.051
Moss, Patrick T., Tibby, John, Petherick, Lynda, McGowan, Hamish and Barr, Cameron (2013). Late Quaternary vegetation history of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, eastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, 257-272. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.019
Cropp, R. A., Gabric, A. J., Levasseur, M., McTainsh, G. H., Bowie, A., Hassler, C. S., Law, C. S., McGowan, H., Tindale, N. and Rossel, R. Viscarra (2013). The likelihood of observing dust-stimulated phytoplankton growth in waters proximal to the Australian continent. Journal of Marine Systems, 117-118, 43-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.02.013
Speirs, Johanna C., McGowan, Hamish A., Steinhoff, Daniel F. and Bromwich, David H. (2013). Regional climate variability driven by foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. International Journal of Climatology, 33 (4), 945-958. doi: 10.1002/joc.3481
MacKellar, Mellissa C., McGowan, Hamish A. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2013). An observational heat budget analysis of a coral reef, Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (6), 2547-2559. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50270
MacKellar, Mellissa C., McGowan, Hamish A., Phinn, Stuart R. and Soderholm, Joshua S. (2013). Observations of surface energy fluxes and boundary-layer structure over Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 146 (2), 319-340. doi: 10.1007/s10546-012-9767-9
McJannet, David, Cook, Freeman, McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, Burn, Stewart and Sherman, Brad (2013). Long-term energy flux measurements over an irrigation water storage using scintillometry. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 168, 93-107. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.08.013
McGowan, Hamish, Marx, Samuel, Moss, Patrick and Hammond, Andrew (2012). Evidence of ENSO mega-drought triggered collapse of prehistory Aboriginal society in northwest Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (22) L22702, L22702.1-L22702.5. doi: 10.1029/2012GL053916
Mackeller, Melissa C., McGowan, Hamish A. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2012). Spatial heterogeneity of air-sea energy fluxes over a coral reef-Heron Reef, Australia. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51 (7), 1353-1370. doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0120.1
McGowan, Hamish A. and Soderholm, Joshua (2012). Laser ceilometer measurements of Australian dust storm highlight need for reassessment of atmospheric dust plume loads. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (2) L02804, L02804.1-L02804.6. doi: 10.1029/2011GL050319
Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S., McGowan, Hamish A. and Denholm, John (2011). Holocene dust deposition rates record the interplay between aridity, position of the mid-latitude westerlies, and a major agriculture induced wind erosion in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (23-24), 3290-3305. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.015
Petherick, L. M., Moss, P. T. and McGowan, H. A. (2011). Climatic and environmental variability during the termination of the Last Glacial Stage in coastal eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58 (6), 563-577. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2011.566281
Wiebe, Andrew, Sturman, Andrew and McGowan, Hamish (2011). Wavelet analysis of atmospheric turbulence over a coral reef flat. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 28 (5), 698-708. doi: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1485.1
McJannet, D. L., Cook, F. J., McGloin, R. P., McGowan, H. A. and Burn, S. (2011). Estimation of evaporation and sensible heat flux from open water using a large-aperture scintillometer. Water Resources Research, 47 (5) W05545, W05545.1-W05545.14. doi: 10.1029/2010WR010155
Kamber, Balz S., Marx, Samuel K. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2010). Comment on "Lead isotopic evidence for an Australian source of aeolian dust to Antarctica at times over the last 170,000 years" by P. De Deckker, M. Norman, I.D. Goodwin, A. Wain and F.X. Gingele. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 298 (3-4), 432-436. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.06.024
McGowan, Hamish A., Sturman, Andrew P., Mackellar, Mellissa C., Wiebe, Andrew H. and Neil, David T. (2010). Measurements of the surface energy balance over a coral reef flat, Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 15 (19) D19124, D19124-1-D19124-12. doi: 10.1029/2010JD014218
Speirs, J. C., Steinhoff, D. F., McGowan, H. A., Bromwich, D. H. and Monaghan, A. J. (2010). Foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctic: The origin of extreme warming events. Journal of Climate, 23 (13), 3577-3598. doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3382.1
McGowan, Hamish A., Marx, Samuel K., Soderholm, Joshua and Denholm, John (2010). Evidence of solar and tropical ocean forcing of hydroclimate variability in south-eastern Australia for the past 6500 years. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (10) L10705, L10705-1-L10705-5. doi: 10.1029/2010GL042918
Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S., McGowan, Hamish A. and Zawadzki, Atun (2010). Atmospheric pollutants in alpine peat bogs record a detailed chronology of industrial and agricultural development on the Australian continent. Environmental Pollution, 158 (5), 1615-1628. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.12.009
MacKellar, Mellissa C. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2010). Air-sea energy exchanges measured by eddy covariance during a localised coral bleaching event, Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (24) L24703, n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1029/2010GL045291
Webb, Nicholas and McGowan, Hamish A. (2009). Approaches to modelling land erodibility by wind. Progress In Physical Geography, 33 (5), 587-613. doi: 10.1177/0309133309341604
Bourke, Mary C., Ewing, Ryan C., Finnegan, David and McGowan, Hamish A. (2009). Sand dune movement in the Victoria Valley, Antarctica. Geomorphology, 109 (3-4), 148-160. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.02.028
Webb, Nicholas Peter, Phinn, SR and McGowan, Hamish A. (2009). Visual assessment of the Australian land erodibility model. Journal of Arid Environments, 73 (6-7), 678-682. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.01.014
Marx, Samuel K., McGowan, Hamish A. and Kamber, Balz S. (2009). Long-range dust transport from eastern Australia: A proxy for Holocene aridity and ENSO-type climate variability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282 (1-4), 167-177. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.013
Deo, Ravinesh C., Syktus, J. I., McAlpine, C. A., Lawrence, P. J., McGowan, H. A. and Phinn, Stuart R. (2009). Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes including droughts in eastern Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (L08705) L08705, x-x. doi: 10.1029/2009GL037666
McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J. I., Ryan, J. G., Deo, R. C., McKeon, G. M., McGowan, H. A. and Phinn, S. R. (2009). A continent under stress: Interactions, feedbacks and risks associated with impact of modified land cover on Australia’s Climate. Global Change Biology, 15 (3), 2206-2223. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01939.x
McGowan, Hamish A., Marx, SK, Denholm, John, Joshua Soderholm and Kamber, Balz S. (2009). Reconstructing annual inflows to the headwater catchments of the Murray River, Australia, using the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (L06707) L06707, x-x. doi: 10.1029/2008GL037049
Webb, Nicholas Peter, McGowan, Hamish A., Phinn, Stuart R., McTainsh, Grant H. and Leys, John F. (2009). Simulation of the spatiotemporal aspects of land erodibility in the northeast Lake Eyre Basin, Australia, 1980-2006. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114 (1) F01013. doi: 10.1029/2008JF001097
Webb, Nicholas Peter, McGowan, Hamish A., Phinn, Stuart R., Leys, John F. and McTainsh, Grant H. (2009). A model to predict land susceptibility to wind erosion in western Queensland, Australia. Environmental Modelling and Software, 24 (2), 214-227. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.06.006
Sturman, A. P. and McGowan, H. A. (2009). Observations of dry season surface energy exchanges over a desert clay pan, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Arid Environments, 73 (1), 74-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.08.008
McGowan, Hamish A. and Clark, Andrew (2008). Identification of dust transport pathways from Lake Eyre, Australia using Hysplit. Atmospheric Environment, 42 (29), 6915-6925. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.05.053
McGowan, Hamish A., Petherick, Lynda M. and Kamber, Balz S. (2008). Aeolian sedimentation and climate variability during the late quaternary in southeast Queensland, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 265 (3-4), 171-181. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.05.011
McGowan, Hamish A. and Clark, Andrew (2008). A vertical profile of PM10 dust concentrations measured during a regional dust event identified by MODIS Terra, western Queensland, Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Science, 113 (F2) F02S03, 1-10. doi: 10.1029/2007JF000765
Lynda Petherick, McGowan, Hamish A. and Moss, Patrick (2008). Climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum in eastern Australia: evidence of two stadials?. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23 (8), 787-802. doi: 10.1002/jqs.1186
Lynda Petherick, McGowan, Hamish A., Moss, Patrick and Balz S. Kamber (2008). Late Quaternary aridity and dust transport pathways in eastern Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 25 (1), 2-11.
Samuel Marx, B.S. Kamber and McGowan, Hamish A. (2008). Scavenging of atmospheric trace metal pollutants by mineral dusts: Inter-regional transport of Australian trace metal pollution to New Zealand.. Atmospheric Environment, 42 (10), 2460-2478. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.014
Johanna Speirs, McGowan, Hamish A. and Neil, David T. (2008). Polar Eolian Sand Transport: Grain Characteristics Determined by an Automated Scanning Electron Microscope (QEMSCAN). Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40 (4), 731-743. doi: 10.1657/1523-0430(07-029)[SPEIRS]2.0.CO;2
McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J., Deo, R. C., Lawrence, P. J., McGowan, H. A., Watterson, I. G. and Phinn, S. R. (2007). Modeling the impact of historical land cover change on Australia's regional climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (22) L22711, Article Number: L22711. doi: 10.1029/2007GL031524
Ayling, Bridget F. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2006). Niveo-eolian Sediment Deposits in Coastal South Victoria Land, Antarctica: Indicators of Regional Variability in Weather and Climate. Arctic Antarctic And Alpine Research, 38 (3), 313-324. doi: 10.1657/1523-0430(2006)38[313:NSDICS]2.0.CO;2
Webb, NP, McGowan, HA, Phinn, SR and McTainsh, GH (2006). AUSLEM (AUStralian Land Erodibility Model): A tool for identifying wind erosion hazard in Australia. Geomorphology, 78 (3-4), 179-200. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.012
Marx, S. K., Kamber, B. S. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Estimates of Australian dust flux into New Zealand: Quantifying the eastern Australian dust plume pathway using trace element calibrated 210Pb as a monitor. Earth And Planetary Science Letters, 239 (3-4), 336-351. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.002
Marx, S. K. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Dust transportation and deposition in a superhumid environment, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand. Catena, 59 (2), 147-171. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2004.06.005
Marx, S. K. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). A re-examination of the 1928 trans-Tasman dust transport event. Weather and Climate, 24, 35-55.
McGowan, H and Ledgard, N (2005). Enhanced dust deposition by trees recently established on degraded rangeland. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand, 35 (3), 269-277. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2005.9517783
McTainsh, G., Chan, Y. C., McGowan, H., Leys, J. and Tews, K. (2005). The 23rd October 2002 dust storm in eastern Australia: characteristics and meteorological conditions. Atmospheric Environment, 39 (7), 1227-1236. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.10.016
McGowan, HA and Sturman, AR (2005). Atmospheric boundary layer development over a narrow coastal plain during onshore flow. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 14 (1), 3-14. doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0014-0003
McGowan, H. A., Kamber, B., McTainsh, G. H. and Marx, S. K. (2005). High resolution provenancing of long travelled dust deposited on the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geomorphology, 69 (1-4), 208-221. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.01.005
Marx, S. K., Kamber, B. S. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Provenance of long-travelled dust determined with ultra-trace-element composition: A pilot study with samples from New Zealand glaciers. Earth Surface Processes And Landforms, 30 (6), 699-716. doi: 10.1002/esp.1169
Chan, Y. C., McTainsh, G., Leys, J., McGowan, H. and Tews, K. (2005). Influence of the 23 October 2002 dust storm on the air quality of four Australian cities. Water Air And Soil Pollution, 164 (1-4), 329-348. doi: 10.1007/s11270-005-4009-0
Zawar-Reza, P., McGowan, H. A., Sturman, A. P. and Kossmann, M. (2004). Numerical simulations of wind and temperature structure within an Alpine lake basin, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 85 (3-4), 245-260. doi: 10.1007/s00703-003-0045-8
McGowan, Hamish A. (2004). Observations of anti-winds in a deep alpine valley, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 36 (4), 495-501. doi: 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0495:OOAIAD]2.0.CO;2
Sturman, A. P., Bradley, S., Drummond, P.D., Grant, K., Gudiksen, P., Kossmann, M., McGowan, H. A., Oliphant, I.F., Owens, I.F., Powell, S., Spronken-Smith, R. and Zawar-Reza, P. (2003). The Lake Tekapo experiment (LTEX): An investigation of atmospheric boundary layer processes in complex terrain. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84 (3), 371-380. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-84-3-371
McGowan, H. A., Sturman, A. P., Kossmann, M. and Zawar-Reza, P. (2002). Observations of foehn onset in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 79 (3-4), 215-230. doi: 10.1007/s007030200004
Kossmann, M, Sturman, AP, Zawar-Reza, P, McGowan, HA, Oliphant, AJ, Owens, IF and Spronken-Smith, RA (2002). Analysis of the wind field and heat budget in an alpine lake basin during summertime fair weather conditions. Meteorology And Atmospheric Physics, 81 (1-2), 27-52. doi: 10.1007/s007030200029
McGowan, HA, McTainsh, GH, Zawar-Reza, P and Sturman, AP (2000). Identifying regional dust transport pathways: Application of kinematic trajectory modelling to a trans-Tasman case. Earth Surface Processes And Landforms, 25 (6), 633-647. doi: 10.1002/1096-9837(200006)25:6<633::AID-ESP102>3.0.CO;2-J
Sturman, Andrew P., McGowan, Hamish A. and Spronken-Smith, Rachel A. (1999). Mesoscale and local climates in New Zealand. Progress in Physical Geography, 23 (4), 611-635. doi: 10.1191/030913399677305474
McGowan, Hamish A. (1997). Meteorological controls on wind erosion during foehn wind events in the eastern Southern Alps, New Zealand. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34 (11), 1477-1485. doi: 10.1139/e17-120
McGowan , Hamish A. and Sturman, Andrew P. (1997). Characteristics of aeolian grain transport over a fluvio-glacial lacustrine braid delta, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 22 (8), 773-784. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199708)22:8<773::AID-ESP781>3.0.CO;2-O
McGowan , Hamish A. and Sturman, Andrew P. (1997). Particle size characteristics of suspended sediment in hillslope runoff and stream flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 22 (8), 705-719. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199708)22:8
McGowan, Hamish A. and Sturman, Andrew P. (1996). Short and medium term trends in the hydrometeorology of the central Southern Alps, New Zealand. International Journal of Climatology, 16 (11), 1267-1279. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199611)16:11<1267::AID-JOC87>3.3.CO;2-Q
McGowan, H. A. and Sturman, A. P. (1996). Interacting multi-scale wind systems within an Alpine basin, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 58 (1-4), 165-177. doi: 10.1007/BF01027563
McGowan, Hamish A., Sturman, Andrew P. and Owens, Ian F. (1996). Aeolian dust transport and deposition by foehn winds in an alpine environment, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Geomorphology, 15 (2), 135-146. doi: 10.1016/0169-555X(95)00123-M
McGowan, H. A. and Sturman, A. P. (1996). A kite based atmospheric sounding system. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 77 (3-4), 395-399. doi: 10.1007/BF00123534
McGowan, H. A. (1996). The weather of windblown sediment: aeolian processes within the New Zealand landscape. Weather and Climate, 16 (1), 3-16.
McGowan, H. A. and Sturman, A. P. (1996). On the application of hydrometeorological techniques to the forecasting of inflows into alpine hydro-lakes. Physical Geography, 17, 513-533.
McGowan, H. A. and Sturman, A. P. (1996). Regional and local scale characteristics of foehn wind events over the South Island of New Zealand. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 58 (1-4), 151-158. doi: 10.1007/BF01027562
McGowan, Hamish A., Owens, Ian F. and Sturman, Andrew P. (1995). Thermal and dynamic characteristics of alpine lake breezes, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 76 (1), 3-24. doi: 10.1007/BF00710888
Sturman, Andrew P. and McGowan, Hamish A. (1995). An assessment of boundary-layer air mass characteristics associated with topographically-induced local wind systems. Boundary-layer meteorology, 74 (1-2), 181-193. doi: 10.1007/BF00715716
McGowan, H. A. and Sturman, A. P. (1993). Synoptic and local effects on the climate of the Waimate area, South Canterbury. Weather and Climate, 13, 23-33.
Conference Papers
McCarthy, N. F., Guyot, A., McGowan, H. and Dowdy, A. (2017). The use of spectrum width radar data for bushfire model verification. 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2017), Hobart, TAS, Australia, 3-8 December 2017. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ).
McCarthy, Nicholas, McGowan, Hamish and Guyot, Adrien (2016). The bushfire convective plume experiment: mobile radar observations of pyro-convection from the Mt Bolton fire, 2016. AFAC16 (Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2016), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 30 August - 1 September 2016.
Guyot, Adrien, Gray, Michael, Riesenkamp, Michiel, Lockington, David and McGowan, Hamish (2016). Seasonal variability of turbulent fluxes over a vegetated subtropical coastal wetland measured by large aperture scintillometry and eddy covariance. EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016.
Stutsel, B. M., Walton, R. S., Callow, J. N., McGowan, H. A. and McGrath, G. S. (2015). The influence of climate teleconnections on streamflow in the snowy mountains. 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The Art and Science of Water, HWRS 2015, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. Barton, ACT, Australia: Engineers Australia.
CSIRO Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster, Serrano, Oscar, Alongi, Daniel, Arias, Ariane, Cherukuru, Nagur, Connolly, Rod, Duarte, Carlos, Esteban, Alba, Eyre, Bradley, Ford, Phillip, Garcia-Orellana, Jordi, Grierson, Pauline, Hayes, Matthew, Rozaimi, Mohammad, Kendrick, Gary, Larkum, Anthony, Lavery, Paul, Lee, Shing Yip, Lovelock, Catherine, Macreadie, Peter, Marba, Nuria, Masque, Pere, Mazarrasa, Ines, McGowan, Hamish, Oubelkheir, Kadija, Petrou, Katherina, Ralph, Peter, Robertson, Alistar, Samper-Villarreal, Jimena ... Trott, Lindsay (2013). Carbon sequestration, stoichiometry and storage potential of Australian coastal and marine ecosystems*. AMSA 2013: Australian Marine Science Golden Jubilee Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-11 July 2013. Kilkivan, QLD, Australia: Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA).
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, McJannet, David and Burn, Stewart (2013). Modelling sub-daily evaporation from a small reservoir. EGU2013: 10th European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April, 2013. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus.
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, McJannet, David, Cook, Freeman and Burn, Stewart (2012). Analysis of airflow characteristics above a small agricultural reservoir: an evaluation of the potential for determining energy fluxes using eddy covariance and scintillometry. 20BLT: American Meteorological Society 20th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence and 18th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Boston, MA, USA, 8-13 July, 2012. Boston, MA, USA: American Meteorological Society.
Hewson, Michael, McGowan, Hamish and Phinn, Stuart (2012). Comparing remotely sensed and modelled aerosol properties for a region of low aerosol optical depth. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012. Piscataway, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350341
Stromsoe, Nicola, McGowan, Hamish A., Callow, Nick, Marx, Samuel and Warren, Loredana (2012). Attribution of sources to metal contribution in an alpine tarn, Club Lake, Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia. Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group, Bundanoon, NSW Australia, 2-7 December 2012.
McGloin, Ryan, McGowan, Hamish, McJannet, David, Cook, Freeman and Burn, Stewart (2011). Quantification of evaporation from a small water storage reservoir: an inter-comparison of the scintillometry and eddy covariance methods. EGU2011: 8th European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April, 2011. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus.
McGowan, Hamish A and Speirs, Johanna C (2010). The meteorology and environmental implications of foehn winds in a polar landscape: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. International Polar Year - Oslo Science Conference, Oslo, Norway, 8-12 June 2010.
McGowan, Hamish, Marx, Samuel, Soderholm, Joshua and Denholm, John (2010). Evidence of solar and tropical ocean forcing of hydroclimate variability in south-eastern Australia for the past 6500 years. AQUA2010: Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island, Qld., Australia, 11-16 July 2010. Australasian Quaternary Association.
McGowan, H. A., Marx, S., Soderholm, J., Denholm, J. and Petherick, L. (2010). Insight to forcing of late Quaternary climate change from aeolian dust archives in eastern Australia. AGU 2010 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 13-17 December 2010. Washington, DC, U.S.A.: American Geophysical Union.
Petherick, Lynda, Moss, Patrick and McGowan, Hamish (2010). High resolution record of the Last Glacial Maximum in eastern Australia. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus.
Speirs, Johanna, McGowan, Hamish, Steinhoff, Daniel and Bromwich, David (2010). Climate variability induced by foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Australia - New Zealand Climate Forum 2010 (ANZCF 2010), Hobart , Tasmania, 12-15 October 2010. Bureau of Meteorology.
MacKellar, Melissa C. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2010). Eddy covariance measurements of the surface energy balance associated with a localised coral bleaching event, Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. American Meteorological Society 17th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 26-30 September 2010. Boston, MA, United States: American Meteorological Society.
McGowan, Hamish A. and MacKellar, M. C. (2010). Eddy covariance measurements of CO2 exchange during monsoon and winter conditions over Heron Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. American Meteorological Society 17th Conference on Air Sea Interaction, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 26-30 September 2010. American Meteorological Society.
Petherick, Lynda, McGowan, Hamish and Moss, Patrick (2010). Multi-proxy, high resolution record of the Last Glacial Maximum in eastern Australia. Australian Quaternary Association Biannual Conference, North Stradbroke Island, Qld, Australia, 11-16 July 2010. Australasian Quaternary Association.
McGowan, H., Marx, S. and Clark, A. (2009). Redefining the northern reach of Australia's dust transport system. 7th International Conference on Geomorphology (ANZIAG): Ancient Landscapes-Modern Perspectives, Melbourme, Australia, 6-11 July 2009.
Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S., McGowan, Hamish A. and Denholm, John (2009). Detailed history of Holocene climate variability in Australia from dust records in peat cores. Goldschmidt 2009: "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet". 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June 2009. Oxford, U.K: Pergamon Press. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.011
Moss, Patrick, McGowan, Hamish, Westaway, Michael, Petherick, Lynda and Daus, Tamara (2009). Late Quaternary environments of South East Queensland. 10th INTECOL 2009. Ecology in a Changing Climate: Two Hemispheres - One Globe. The 10th International Congress of Ecology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 16-21 August 2009.
Petherick, Lynda M., McGowan, Hamish A. and Moss, Patrick T. (2009). Quantifying palaeoclimate variables during periods of aridity and drought in eastern Australia: A study using a late quaternary multiproxy record. 9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. Extremes: Climate and Weather in the Southern Hemisphere, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 9-13 February 2009. Melbourne, Australia: Bureau of Meteorology.
Johanna Speirs, McGowan, Hamish A., Steinhoff, Daniel F. and Bromwich, David H. (2009). The polar foehn: A re-examination of downslope winds in the McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica. 9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, 9-13 February 2009. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Bureau of Meteorology.
Petherick, Lynda M., Moss, Patrick T. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2009). High resolution record of the last glacial maximum in eastern Australia. 3rd Open Science Meeting, Corvallis, Orgegon, USA, 8-11 July 2009.
McJannet, D., Burn, S., Cook, F., McGowan, H., Schmidt, E., Lemckert, C. and Matveev, V. (2009). Comparison of techniques for determining evaporation from a large irrigation storage. Urban Water Security Research Alliance Science Forum, Brisbane, Australia, 17-18 August 2009. Brisbane, Australia: Urban Water Security Research Alliance.
Petherick, L., Moss, P. and McGowan, H. (2009). Reconstructing late quaternary climates and environments of subtropical eastern Australia: A high resolution, continuous, multi-proxy record. Past Climates symposium, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-17 May 2009. Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society of New Zealand.
Petherick, Lynda M., McGowan, Hamish A. and Kamber, Balz S. (2009). Reconstructing transport pathways for late Quaternary dust from eastern Australia using the composition of trace elements of long traveled dusts. ICAR VI: International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.015
Webb, N., McGowan, H., Phinn, Stuart, McTainsh, G. and Leys, J. (2008). Predicting wind erosion hazard in Western Queensland, Australia. 13th Biennial Conference of the ANZGG, Queenstown, Australia, 10-15 February 2008.
McGowan, H. A., Marx, S. K. and Denholm, J. (2008). 7000 years of dust deposition: A proxy record of alpine drought and climate variability in the Snowy Mountains, Australia. 13th Conference on Mountain Meteorology and 17th Conference on Applied Climatology, Whistler, Canada, 11-15 August 2008.
Marx, S. K., McGowan, H. A. and Denholm, J. (2008). Identification of palaeo-drought episodes in the catchments of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme and Murray-Darling Basin. Thirteenth Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group, Queenstown, Australia, 10-15 February 2008.
Marx, Samuel K., Kamber, Balz S. and McGowan, Hamish A. (2008). Identification of palaeo-drought episodes in eastern Australia: High resolution dust flux records, as an indicator of teleconnections and associated drought in the Australian region. 18th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 13-18 July 2008. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.05.016
Johanna Speirs, McGowan, Hamish A. and Neil, David T. (2008). Meteorological controls on sand transport and dune morphology in a polar-desert: Victoria Valley, Antarctica. United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. doi: 10.1002/esp.1739
McGowan, Hamish A. and Speirs, Johanna C. (2008). The polar foehn of the Victoria Valley, Antarctica. 13th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Whistler, BC, Canada, 11–15 August 2008.
Marx, S. K., McGowan, H. A., Kamber, B. S. and Denholm, J. (2008). Contemporary and palaeo-drought episodes in the Snowy Mountains and Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: A multi-scaled approach to understanding drought. 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 29 July - 1 August 2008. USA: American Geophysical Union.
Petherick, L. P., Moss, P. T. and McGowan, H. A. (2008). Late Quaternary environments of North Stradbroke Island, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. 4th AINSE Quaternary Dating Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 26-27 March, 2008.
Marx, S. K., Webb, N. P., McGowan, H. A. and Neil, D. T. (2008). Geomorphic controls on regional scale dust emissions: investigating aeolian and fluvial interactions in arid landscapes. 13th Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG), Queenstown, Australia, 10-15 February 2008.
Petherick, Lynda Margaret, Moss, Patrick and McGowan, Hamish A. (2007). The termination of the last glacial phase in eastern Australia from North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July-3 August 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Petherick, Lynda, McGowan, Hamish A. and Moss, Patrick (2007). Late quarternary millennial-scale climate variability in eastern Australia from lake sediment, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, July 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Deo, R. C., McAlpine, C. A., Syktus, J., McGowan, H. A. and Phinn, S. (2007). On Australian heat waves: Time series analysis of extreme temperature events in Australia, 1950-2005. MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 -13 December 2007. Canberra, Australia: The Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia and NZ Inc (MSSANZ).
Petherick, L., Moss, P. and McGowan, H. (2007). Late Quaternary environments from North Stradbroke Island, southeast Queensland. 5th Internation Southern Connection Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 21–25 January 2007.
McGowan, Hamish A., Petherick, Lynda Margaret and Moss, Patrick (2007). Mid-holocene aridity in southeastern Queensland, Australia: Evidence from an ENSO driven super drought?. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July to 3 August 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Marx, Samuel, McGowan, Hamish A. and Kamber, B. S. (2007). A holocene record of long-range Australian dust deposition in New Zealand: Dust as a proxy for inter-regional climate variability. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, July 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Dickinson, Warren W., Rieser, Uwe, Mackintosh, Andrew and McGowan, Hamish A. (2007). OSL age constraints on sediments in lower Victoria Valley, Antarctica. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July-3 August 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Bourke, Mary C., McGowan, Hamish A. and Finnegan, David C. (2007). A study of dune change in Victoria Valley, Antarctica between 1959 and 2002. International Union for Quaternary Research XVII Congress, Cairns, Australia, July 2007. The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.04.001
Syktus, J. I., McAlpine, C. A., McGowan, H. A., Phinn, S. and Deo, R. C. (2007). Modeling the climate impact of Australian vegetation cover change. MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007. Christchurch, New Zealand: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Marx, S. K., McGowan, H. A. and Kamber, B. S. (2007). Evidence of enhanced El Nino activity in the mid Holocene inferred from records of Australian dust deposition in New Zealand. 15th AINSE Conference on Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis & 10th Vacuum Society of Australia Congress, The University of Melbourne, 21-23 November 2007.
Syktus, J., Deo, R. C., McAlpine, C. A., McGowan, H. A. and Phinn, S. (2007). Impact of land cover change on regional climate and El Nino in Australia. MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10 -13 December 2007. Canberra, ACT Australia: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.
Kamber, B. S., McGowan, Hamish A., Samuel Marx and Lynda Margaret Petherick (2007). Establishing high precision trace element maps of the main dust source areas of eastern and south-central Australia. Goldschmidt Conference 2007, Cologne, Germany, July 2007. Oxford, England: Pergamon.
Webb, N. P., McGowan, H. A., Phinn, S. R., McTainsh, G. H. and Leys, J. F. (2006). AUSLEM: Australian Land Erodibility Model; Modelling wind erosion processes in arid and semi-arid land systems of Western Queensland. Desert Knowledge CRC-Wide Conference, Alice Springs, 13-17 February 2006. Alice Springs: CRC.
McGowan, H. A., Neil, D. T. and Speirs, J. C. (2006). Meteorological controls on aeolian processes and dune morphology in a polar desert: Victoria Valley, Antarctica. Antarctica in the Earth System, Hobart, Australia, 12-14 July, 2006. Hobart, Australia: Australian Antarctic Division.
Webb, Nicholas, Marx, Samuel, Gill, Tony and McGowan, Hamish (2006). Continental scale climatic controls on land erodibility and aeolian dust production: Linking source area processes to rates of long-range dust transport out of south-east Australia. ICAR VI: International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Guelph, Canada: University of Guelph.
Petherick, L. M., McGowan, H A and Kamber, B. S. (2006). A 25,000 year record of the position and strength of Australian southeast dust transport pathways. Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
Webb, N P, McGowan, H A, Phinn, S R, Leys, J. F. and McTainsh, G. H. (2006). Monitoring land erodibility controls in arid and semi-arid land types to develop an Australian land erodibility model (AUSLEM). Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
McGowan, H. A., Neil, D. T., Dowideit, G. R. and Dickinson, W. (2006). Frozen in time: Geomorphic evidence of palaeo wind regimes preserved in polar dunes, Victoria Valley, Antarctica. Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July, 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
McGowan, H A and Wills, (2006). Aeolian sediment transport variation from 2000-2006 undersemi-arid montane grassland conditions in the South Island, New Zealand. Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
McGowan, Hamish and Clark, Andrew (2006). Vertical PM10 dust concentrations measured in a regional dust event identified by MODIS Terra: Western Queensland, Australia. Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
McGowan, H A and Speirs, J. (2006). A thermal shocker: The polar foehn of the Victoria Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Antarctica in the Earth System, Hobart, Tasmania, 12-14 July 2006. Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Antarctic Division.
Moss, Patrick Tobias, McGowan, Hamish, Petherick, Lynda and Moore, Shelley (2006). Late Quaternary environments of North Stradbroke Island, South-Eastern Queensland, Australia. International Geographical Union IGU 2006 Brisbane Conference and joint meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers and the New Zealand Geographical Society. Regional Responses to Global Changes: A view from the Antipodes, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3-7 July 2006. Australia: International Geographical Union.
Neil, D. T., McGowan, H. A., Dowideit, G. R. and Speirs, J. (2006). Glacial Lake Victoria: Reevaluation of Palaeoshoreline evidence of Antarctic megalakes. Antarctica in the Earth System, Hobart, Tasmania, 12-14 July, 2006. Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Antarctic Division.
McGowan, H A, Petherick, L. M. and Kamber, B. S. (2006). Climatic variability and aeolian sedimentation in eastern Australia during the late quaternary. Sixth International Conference on Aeolian Research, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 24-28 July, 2006. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph.
McGowan, H. A. and Neil, D. T. (2006). Denivation features of the Victoria Valley Dunes: An earth analogue for morphological indicators of solid water on Mars. Antarctica in the Earth System, Hobart, Australia, 12-14 July 2006. Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Antarctic Division.
Neil, D., McGowan, H., Dowideit, G., Speirs, J. and Orwin, J. (2005). Palaeoshoreline evidence for glacial megalakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Glacial Lake Victoria reappraised. 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 5–9 December 2005.
McGowan, H. A. and Neil, D. (2005). Denivation features of polar dunes: An earth analogue for morphological indicators of solid water on Mars. 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 5-9 December 2005. Washington, DC., U.S.A.: American Geophysical Union.
Sturman, A. P. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Field measurement of surface energy exchange and atmospheric boundary layer development over different surface types in Queensland, Australia. Meteorological Society of New Zealand 26th Annual Conference, Wellington, NZ, 23-25 November 2005.
Neil, D., McGowan, H., Dowideit, G., Speirs, J. and Orwin J. (2005). Glacial Lake Victoria: A reappraisal of geomorphic evidence. Antarctica New Zealand Annual Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 July, 2005.
Marx, S. K., Kamber, B. S. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Atmospheric Trace Element Calibrated 210-Pb as a Monitor of Australian Dust Flux. 14th AINSE Conference on Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis & 9th Vacuum Society of Australia Congress, Wellington, New Zealand, 20-22 November 2005.
Petherick, L. M. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Geochemical "fingerprinting" of a 25 000-year record of aeolian dust deposition: An indicator of continental response to global climate variability. Reconstructing Past Climates For Future Prediction: Integrating High-Resolution Palaeo Data For Meaningful Prediction In The Australasian Region, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 27-28 June 2005. Canberra, Australia: Australian Academy of Science.
Orwin, J. F., McGowan, H. A. and Neil, D. T. (2005). Controls on proglacial suspended sediment transfer patterns in a polar environment, Victoria Valley, Antarctica. 2005 Antarctica New Zealand Conference: Antarctica - Facing the Future, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4-6 July 2005. Christchurch, NZ:
Dickinson, W. W., Rieser, U. and McGowan, H. (2005). OSL age constraints on the Victoria Valley Dunes, Antarctica. LED 2005: 11th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, Cologne, Germany, 24- 29 July, 2005.
Marx, S. K. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Geochemical characterisation of east Australian dusts: A tool for provenance of aeolian sediments from geological archives. Joint BGRG/BSRG Conference: Drylands - Linking Landscape Processes To Sedimentary Environments, London, 2-4 February, 2005.
Marx, S. K., McGowan, H. A. and Kamber, B. S. (2005). Dust as a proxy for climate change: A record of Australian dust deposition in New Zealand during the Holocene. Geological Society of New Zealand 50th Anniversary Conference, Kaikoura, New Zealand., 28th November - 1st December 2005.
Marx, S. K., Kamber, B. S. and McGowan, H. A. (2005). Long Term Estimates of Australian Dust Flux into New Zealand: The Use of Modern Analogues to Assess the Sensitivity of Dust to Environmental Change Using Trace-Element Calibrated 210Pb as a Monitor. 2nd EGU General Assembly, Vienna Austria, 24-29 April 2005. Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany: European Geophysical Society.
Petherick, Lynda, McGowan, Hamish and Kamber, Balz (2004). A 25 000 year record of climatic variability for southeast Queensland reconstructed from water content and aeolian dust deposition in “dry” lake sediments. Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Conference, Cradle Mountain, Australia, 6-10 December 2004.
McGowan, H. A. (2004). Nocturnal cool air pools and billabong effects in the Channel Country: Observations from Hunters Gorge, Diamantina National Park, Queensland. International Conference on Storms: Storm Science to Disaster, Brisbane, 5-9 July, 2004. Melbourne: AMOS.
Marx, S., McGowan, H. A. and Kamber, B.S. (2004). Determination of the provenance of long-travelled dust in geologic archives: A study using the ultra trace element chemistries of eastern Australian dusts. Biennial Conference of the Australasian Quaternary Association, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, 2004.
McGowan, Hamish A. (2003). Observations of foehn interaction with lake breeze and valley wind circulations, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. International Conference on Alpine Meteorology and MAP Meeting, Brig, Switzerland, 19-23 May 2003. Zurich: Meteo Swiss.
Wills, B. J., McGowan, H. A. and Trainor, K.D. (2002). Aeolian sediment transport and direct drilling under semi-arid conditions in the South Island, New Zealand. The 12th International Soil Conservation Organization Conf., Beijing, China; Friendship Hotel, No. 3, Beijing, 26-31 May, 2002. Tsinghua University, China: Tsinghua University Press.
McGowan, H. A., McTainsh, G. H., Sturman, A. P. and Zawar-Reza, P. (2001). Inter-regional atmospheric transport of Australian dust. Proceedings of the International Symposium on soil erosion research for the 21st Century, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-5 January 2001. American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
Kossmann, M., Sturman, A. P., Zawar-Reza, P., McGowan, H. A., Oliphant, A. J., Owens, I. F. and Spronken-Smith, R. A. (2000). Analysis of the wind and temperature field in an alpine lake basin. Proceedings Ninth Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Aspen, Colorado, 7-11 August 2000. American Meteorological Society.
Kossmann, M., Sturman, A. P., Zawar-Reza, P., McGowan, H. A., Bradley, S. G., Oliphant, A. J. and Hipkin, V. J. (2000). Boundary layer development and local winds in an alpine lake basin. 10th International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmospheres and Oceans and Associated Techniques, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 November - 1 December, 2000.
Kingsland, S. J., Kuschel, G. I., Ayrey, B., Foster, E. and McGowan, H. A. (1998). Inventory of home heating, motor vehicle and industrial emissions, Christchurch, New Zealand. 10th Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., 11-16 January 1998. Boston, MA, U.S.A.: American Meteorological Society.
Data Collections
McGowan, Hamish (2022). Eilat Reef CO2. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/7e3c81a
McGowan, Hamish, Lensky, Nadav, Abir, Shai, Shaked, Yonathan and Wurgaft , Eyal (2021). Eddy covariance and environmental data collected Eilat, Israel & Heron Reef, Australia . The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/87537d3
Borthwick, Kara and McGowan, Hamish (2021). A Climatology of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Over Australia: Complete Event Catalogue. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/b092bac
Lowry, Andrew, McGowan, Hamish and Gray, Michael (2019). Bribie Island CO2_Topt Data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.687
McGowan, Hamish, Callow, Nik, Soderholm, Joshua and Campbell, Micheline (2019). Alpine temperature and snowcover reconstructions for the Snowy Mountains, Australia. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.154
McGowan, Hamish, Marx, SK, Denholm, J, Soderholm, J and Kamber, B.K (2019). Reconstructed inflows to the headwater catchments of the Murray River, Australia from 1474 - 2005.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.157
McGowan, Hamish, Schwartz, Andrew and Callow, Nik (2019). Synoptic Weather Energy Balance in the Australia's Snowy Mountains. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.691
McGowan, Hamish (2019). Micrometeorological Data Collected at Heron Island. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.14
McGowan, Hamish (2015). Weather Model Output. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/0b789f8
McGowan, Hamish A (2014). Weather Model Output. The University of Queensland. (Collection) doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.601