BAMOS
Sept 2017
Contents
4
3
President’s report
6 News
11 Conference reports
14
Article: Australia’s record-breaking
winter warmth linked to climate
change by Andrew King
16
Article: An atmospheric high-
resolution regional reanalysis
for Australia by Dörte Jakob et al.
24
Article: The North Sydney Tornado of
1906 by Richard Whitaker
28
Article: Climate change and
Christianity is a positive feedback
loop by Justin Oogjes
30
Weather in literature quiz with
Matthias Tomczak
31 Research Corner with Damien Irving
32 Charts of the Past with Blair Trewin
33 Calendar and JSHESS contents
Linden Ashcroft
Editor
Human questions
Welcome to spring, and to the third BAMOS for 2017. It feels like
a lot has happened since our last issue.
Firstly, AMOS has officially turned 30! There was even a cake.
All the details of our birthday celebrations and Anniversary
Symposium will be shared in a future special issue, but I will say
that the recent Symposium was an inspiring and motivating
showcase of our science. Well done to all involved!
We’ve also made it through winter. It might have felt like a chilly
season (particularly in the south), but Australia has just had its
warmest winter days on record. Andrew King has all the details,
including the role of climate change, on page 14.
Finally, since I last spoke to you, several members have
submitted their articles, dare I say even their stories, to share
with you in these pages. While we have some fascinating
science this issue— including the debut of the Bureau’s new
reanalysis — there are also personal tales of tackling the very
human questions that exist in the world of weather and climate.
ISSN 1035-6576
Editor: Linden Ashcroft
Editor-in-Chief: Damien Irving
Assistant Editors: Diana Greenslade, Melissa Lyne and Blair
Trewin
Regional Sub-Editors: Sarah Perry (VIC)
Design: Jeanette Dargaville
Publisher: AMOS, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne VIC 3001,
Australia
Submission deadline for next issue: 20 November 2017
Contact and submit pieces: [email protected] Submission
guidelines available online.
Cover image: Cyclone Debbie captured by the Himawari-8
satellite, March 2017 and features of the new BARRA reanalysis.
Source: Bureau of Meteorology
Image: The AMOS birthday cake. Image: Melissa Lyne.
How do gender quotas affect the confidence of those select to
help “even things up”? Can Christianity and climate science co-
exist? I invite you to have a read, and a think and if you like, write
an article tackling your own question. It’d be great to share your
thoughts.
The last few month have indeed been busy, but there is a lot
more to come. Registrations for AMOS-ICSHMO 2018 are now
open, weather tipping finals are upon us, and the famous AMOS
Arts Competition is open for submissions. If none of those
appeal to you, why not write to me about it!