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Personal profile
Biography
Professor Christian Jakob was awarded his PhD in Meteorology by the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, in 2001. As a research, then senior research, scientist for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from 1993 to 2001, he worked on the development and evaluation of the model representation of clouds, convection and precipitation. From 2002 to 2007 he was senior and principal research scientist of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and since 2007 he has been a professor at Monash University. He currently is the Professor for Climate Modelling at Monash’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. Christian has been the Deputy Director, and later Director, of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climtae System Science as well as Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, for which he is still a Chief Investigator.
Christian's experience and current interests are in the development and evaluation of the processes crucial to the energy and water cycles in global atmospheric models. Internationally, he is engaged in many scientific and collaborative activities. He is the current Co-chair of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity. Before that, he co-chaired the WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (2012-2017) and led the prestigious Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (20082012). He was Chair of the WCRP’s Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Modelling and Prediction Panel from 2007 to 2010. .
In recognition of his prominent position in the climate science field, Christian was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment Report, Working Group 1. In 2016 he won the Ascent Award of the American Geophysical Union’s Atmospheric Sciences Section, and in 2018 he was elected a fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS). He was awarded the AMOS Morton Medal in 2019.
Research interests
Tropical Convection
Weather and Climate Interactions
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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National Environmental Science Program Phase 2 Climate Systems Hub
Marsland, S., Gallant, A., McGregor, S., Jakob, C., Holmes, D., Goldie, J., Boulter, S., Bullio, R., Hopkins, M. & Murphy, B. F.
1/10/20 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Pitman, A. J., Jakob, C., Alexander, L., Reeder, M., Roderick, M., England, M. H., Abramowitz, G., Abram, N., Arblaster, J., Bindoff, N. L., Dommenget, D., Evans, J. P., Hogg, A. M., Holbrook, N. J., Karoly, D. J., Lane, T. P., Sherwood, S. C., Strutton, P., Ebert, E., Hendon, H., Hirst, A. C., Marsland, S., Matear, R., Protat, A., Wang, Y., Wheeler, M. C., Best, M. J., Brody, S., Grabowski, W., Griffies, S., Gruber, N., Gupta, H., Hallberg, R., Hohenegger, C., Knutti, R., Meehl, G. A., Milton, S., de Noblet-Ducoudre, N., Or, D., Petch, J., Peters-Lidard, C., Overpeck, J., Russell, J., Santanello, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Stephens, G., Stevens, B. & Stott, P. A.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution, Monash University – Internal School Contribution, Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australian National University (ANU), University of Melbourne, University of Tasmania, Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) (Australia), Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) (New South Wales)
1/01/17 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Cloud Climatology for Numerical Model Validation
Lynch, M. J. & Jakob, C.
Monash University – Internal School Contribution
1/10/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Fast Disk Storage to Enable Big Data Science in Weather, Oceans and Climate
Reeder, M., Arblaster, J., Bown, J., Evans, B., Hogg, A., Holbrook, N., Jakob, C., Johnson, F., Kay, M., Lane, T. P., Shakespeare, C., Sherwood, S., Vincent, C., Zika, J. & Strutton, P.
24/04/20 → 1/07/21
Project: Research
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The weather-climate connection in Australian climate change
Jakob, C., Singh, M. & Reeder, M.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Acute climate risks in the financial system: examining the utility of climate model projections
Pitman, A. J., Fiedler, T., Ranger, N., Jakob, C., Ridder, N. N., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. E., Wood, N. & Abramowitz, G., 18 Aug 2022, In: Environmental Research: Climate. 1, 2, 14 p., 025002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Fundamental Ingredients of Australian Rainfall Extremes
White, B. A., Jakob, C. & Reeder, M. J., 16 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 17, 20 p., e2021JD036076.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Identifying Relations Between Deep Convection and the Large-Scale Atmosphere Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Retsch, M. H., Jakob, C. & Singh, M. S., 16 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 3, 25 p., e2021JD035388.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Investigating Tropical Versus Extratropical Influences on the Southern Hemisphere Tropical Edge in the Unified Model
Freisen, P. F., Arblaster, J. M., Jakob, C. & Rodríguez, J. M., 16 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 7, 12 p., e2021JD036106.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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An adaptive tracking algorithm for convection in simulated and remote sensing data
Raut, B. A., Jackson, R., Picel, M., Collis, S. M., Bergemann, M. & Jakob, C., 1 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 60, 4, p. 513-526 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Prizes
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Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Jakob, Christian (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
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Morton Medal of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Jakob, Christian (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)