Prof David Karoly
B.S. Hons, Monash (Australia); PhD, Reading (UK)
Expertise
- Climate change and climate variability
- Atmospheric science
- El Nino-Southern Oscillation
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
Background
- Professor of Meteorology and Federation Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
- Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
- Board member, Federal Government Climate Change Authority
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society
- Lead Author and Review Editor, Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Chair, Victorian Premier's Climate Change Reference Group
- Member, WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modeling
- Member, CCI/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert team on Climate Change Detection and Indices
- Former Williams Chair and Professor of Meteorology, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2003-2007
- Former Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash University, 1995-2000
- Recipient, Norbert Gerbier - MUMM Prize, 1998, from the World Meteorological Organization.
Publications and Speeches
Bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia
Climate Change Science Misinformation
The human hand in climate change
A plea from a climate scientist
The Climate Series: David Karoly on the latest climate science