Atmospheric Scientist
Dr Andrew Klekociuk
Unlike greenhouse gases, which are well mixed in the atmosphere, ozone exhibits marked regional patterns, particularly at high southern latitudes. Adequate account of these patterns has tangible benefits for the accuracy of climate simulation over seasonal to decadal time scales. The sensitivity of regional surface climate to the representation of ozone in climate models, and how this sensitivity depends on greenhouse gas changes, are focal points for research Dr Klekociuk leads under the Australian Antarctic Program.
In conducting his research, Dr Klekociuk collaborates on the development and analysis of climate model simulations, particularly through the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI). He also leads an Australian-Chinese collaboration that is investigating long-term ozone variability in East Antarctica.
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Current Research
Dr Klekociuk contributes to the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre as leader of the Future Climate and Sea Level group within the Australian Antarctic Division’s ‘Antarctica and the Global System’ program.
Selected Publications
Meteoritic dust from the atmospheric disintegration of a large meteoroid. AR Klekociuk, PG Brown, DW Pack, DO ReVelle, WN Edwards, RE Spalding, E . Nature 436 (7054), 1132-1135, 2005.
First Southern Hemisphere common-volume measurements of PMC and PMSE. AR Klekociuk, RJ Morris, JL Innis, Geophysical Research Letters 35 (24), L24804, 2008.
Future Antarctic ozone recovery rates in September–December predicted by CCMVal-2 model simulations. JM Siddaway, SV Petelina, D Karoly, AR Klekociuk, RJ Dargaville, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 12 (8), 18959-18991, 2013.
The effect of orographic gravity waves on Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud occurrence and composition. SP Alexander, AR Klekociuk, MC Pitts, AJ McDonald, A Arevalo‐Torres, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1984–2012) 116 (D6), 2011.
Structure and long-term change in the zonal asymmetry in Antarctic total ozone during spring. AV Grytsai, OM Evtushevsky, OV Agapitov, AR Klekociuk, GP Milinevsky, Annales Geophysicae 25 (2), 361-374, 2005.
Authorised by the CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre October 2019.
The ACE CRC was established and supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program.
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