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Biography
Professor Neville Nicholls moved to the University after 35 years with the Bureau of Meteorology where he researched many aspects of climate. At Monash, he has continued his research into how and why the climate is changing, as well as designing systems to help us adapt to climate change and variability by improving our ability to forecast and cope with droughts, bushfires, heatwaves, and other climate impacts.
For the past forty years Neville has studied the El Niandntilde;o-Southern Oscillation effect (or ENSO), a naturally occurring cyclic weather pattern that causes droughts and flooding in Australia and elsewhere. His research has demonstrated how we can use ENSO to predict climate variations including droughts, heavy rains, and tropical cyclone activity in Australia and elsewhere (as well as predicting the impacts of climate variations associated with ENSO, including bushfire activity and various human health impacts).
Neville has also been instrumental in developing historical climate and weather data bases, to improve the monitoring of climate change and variability, and ensuring these data are freely available to other researchers.
He is also designing early warning systems that help support vulnerable members of the population such as the elderly, so that they may better prepare for, and so survive, heatwaves now and in the future. Improving the way we cope with climate variations now will help us adapt to the changing climate in the future.
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Projects 2006 2014
- 9 Finished
The dynamics of subtropical anticyclones and the connection to drought, heatwaves and bushfires in southern Autralia
Reeder, M., Berry, G., Jakob, C., Lynch, A., Nicholls, N. & Schwendike, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
1/07/10 → 1/09/14
Project: Research
Coordinating Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report , "Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation".
Nicholls, N. & Cake, K.
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency - Australian Government
1/02/10 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
Changing heat: direct impacts of temperature on health and productivity - current risks and climate change projections
Nicholls, N., Barry, S., Dear, K., Hanna, E., McMichael, A. & Tait, P.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/10 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
The establishment of heatwave thresholds for the activation of local government heatwave plans
Tapper, N., Loughnan, M. & Nicholls, N.
19/06/09 → 30/06/09
Project: Research
Reconstructing pre-20th century rainfall, temperature and pressure for south-eastern Australia using palaeoclimate, documentary and early weather station data
Nicholls, N., Garden, D., Gergis, J., Karoly, D. J., Allan, R., Braganza, K., Lomb, N., Lorrey, A. M., Moran, R., Neville, R., Skelly, G., Tan, K. S. & Turney, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/09 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
Research Output 1977 2019
Geographic, Demographic, and Temporal Variations in the Association between Heat Exposure and Hospitalization in Brazil: A Nationwide Study between 2000 and 2015
Zhao, Q., Li, S., Coelho, M. S. Z. S., Saldiva, P. H. N., Hu, K., Arblaster, J. M., Nicholls, N., Huxley, R. R., Abramson, M. J. & Guo, Y., 1 Jan 2019, In : Environmental Health Perspectives. 127, 1, 9 p., 017001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Mechanisms causing east Australian spring rainfall differences between three strong El Niño events
van Rensch, P., Arblaster, J., Gallant, A. J. E., Cai, W., Nicholls, N. & Durack, P. J., Sep 2019, In : Climate Dynamics. 53, 5-6, p. 3641–3659 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Building evidence that effective heat alert systems save lives in southeast Australia
Nicholls, N., Loughnan, M. E. & Tapper, N. J., 2016, 2 p. Geneva Switzerland : World Meteorological Organization.Research output: Other contribution › Other
Exploring the influence of short-term temperature patterns on temperature-related mortality: a case-study of Melbourne, Australia
Pearce, J., Hyer, M., Hyndman, R., Loughnan, M., Dennekamp, M. & Nicholls, N., 10 Nov 2016, In : Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source. 15, 1, p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Recent changes in southern Australian frost occurrence: implications for wheat production risk
Crimp, S., Zheng, B., Khimashia, N., Gobbett, D. L., Chapman, S., Howden, S. M. & Nicholls, N., 2016, In : Crop & Pasture Science. 67, 8, p. 801-811 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review