Publications

Books

Aplin, G., Mitchell, P., Cleugh, H.A., Pitman, A.J. and Rich, D.C., 1995, Global Environmental Crises, An Australian Perspective, Oxford University Press, 317pp. ISBN 0 19 553600 2.

Aplin, G., Beggs, P., Brierley, G., Cleugh, H.A., Curson, P., Mitchell, P., Pitman, A.J. and Rich, D.C., 1999, Global Environmental Crises, An Australian Perspective, Oxford University Press, 392pp. ISBN 0 19 550827 0. (Second edition).

Vegetation and Climate Interactions in Semi Arid Regions, 1991, edited by A. Henderson-Sellers and A.J. Pitman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 238pp. ISBN 0-7923-1061-6.

Refereed book chapters

Randall, D., R. A. Wood, S. Bony, R. Colman, T. Fichefet, J. Fyfe, V. Kattsov, A. Pitman, J. Shukla, J. Srinivasan, R. J. Stouffer, A. Sumi, and K. Taylor, 2007: Climate models and their evaluation. Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solomon, S., Ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, in press.

Pitman, A.J., 2005, Greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases, in The Encyclopedia of World Climates, J.E. Oliver (Ed), Kluwer, pp 391-397.

Avissar, R., Weaver, C.P., Werth, D., Pielke, R.A., Rabin, R., Pitman, A.J., and Silva Dias, M.A., 2004, The regional climate, in Vegetation, water, Humans and the climate: A new perspective on an interactive system, Kabat, P., Claussen, M., Dirmeyer, PA., Gash,k J.H.C., Bravo de Guenni, L., Meybeck, M., Pielke, R.A., Vorosmarty, C.J., Hutjes, R.W.A. and Lutkemaier, S. (eds). The IGBP Series, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 650 pp, ISBM 3-540-42400-8.

Dirmeyer, P.A., Feddes, R.A., Hall, F.G., Halldin, S., Hoff, H., Houser, P., Hutjes, R.W.A., Jenne, R., Lese, J., Kittel, T., Meeson, B.W., Olson, R.J., Phillips, T., Pitman, A.J., Takahashi, K. And Verdin, K., 2004, Existing degrees of consolidation, in Vegetation, water, Humans and the climate: A new perspective on an interactive system, Kabat, P., Claussen, M., Dirmeyer, PA., Gash,k J.H.C., Bravo de Guenni, L., Meybeck, M., Pielke, R.A., Vorosmarty, C.J., Hutjes, R.W.A. and Lutkemaier, S. (eds). The IGBP Series, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 650 pp, ISBM 3-540-42400-8.

Claussen, M. and Pitman, A.J., 2004, Summary, conclusion and perspective, in Vegetation, water, Humans and the climate: A new perspective on an interactive system, Kabat, P., Claussen, M., Dirmeyer, PA., Gash,k J.H.C., Bravo de Guenni, L., Meybeck, M., Pielke, R.A., Vorosmarty, C.J., Hutjes, R.W.A. and Lutkemaier, S. (eds). The IGBP Series, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 650 pp, ISBM 3-540-42400-8.

Pitman, A.J., Dolman, A.J., Kuijit, B., Valentini, R. and Baldocchi, D., 2004, The Climate near the ground, , in Vegetation, water, Humans and the climate: A new perspective on an interactive system, Kabat, P., Claussen, M., Dirmeyer, PA., Gash,k J.H.C., Bravo de Guenni, L., Meybeck, M., Pielke, R.A., Vorosmarty, C.J., Hutjes, R.W.A. and Lutkemaier, S. (eds). The IGBP Series, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 650 pp, ISBM 3-540-42400-8.

Pitman, A.J., 2003, The role of Australian Geography in Earth System Science and Global Change, in Geography's New Frontiers, Edited by B.J. Garner, Geography Society of New South Wales, Conference papers 17, March 21^st and 22^nd 2003. ISSN 0725-6248.

McAvaney, B.J., Covey, C., Joussaume, S., Kattsov, V., Kitoh, A., Ogana, W., Pitman, A.J., Weaver, A., Wood, R.A., Zhao, Z.-C., 2001, Model Evaluation, In Chapter 8 of Climate Change, 2001, The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (Houghton, J.T., Ding, Y., Griggs, DJ., Noger, M., van der Linden, P.J., Dai, X., Maskell, K., and Johnson, C.A., (eds.)). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Stocker et al., 2001, Physical climate processes and feedbacks, Chapter 7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group 1, Third Assessment Report (as contributing author).

Zhang, H., Henderson-Sellers, A., McAvaney, B.J. and Pitman, A.J., 1997, Uncertainties in GCM evaluation of tropical deforestation: a comparison of two model simulations, in Assessing Climate Change: Results from the Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment, Howe, W. and Henderson-Sellers, A. (eds), Chapter 12, pp. 219-249, Gordon and Breach. 418pp. ISBN 90-5699-067-5.

Gates, W.L. et al., 1996, Climate Models - Evaluation, Chapter 5 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, CUP, pp. 233-276.

Pitman, A.J., 1995, Simulating heterogeneous vegetation in climate models. Identifying at what scale secondary vegetation becomes important, in Scale Issues in Hydrological Modelling (Kalma, J.D. and Sivapalan, M., Eds.), Wiley, 489pp. ISBN 0-471-95847-6.

Pitman, A.J., 1994, The greenhouse effect: Theory, impacts and the way forward, in Australasian geography for the 1990s (Eds. Hirsch, P. and Thoms, M.), Geography teachers of New South Wales, 132pp. ISBN 0 646 19780 0.

Pitman, A.J., 1992, Predicting the effects of increasing greenhouse gases for S.E. Australia, in The Planning implications of greenhouse, (Eds. Bowie, I.J.S. and Goldney, D.C., pp. 42-79, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW. ISBN 0-947156-63-3.

Pitman, A.J., 1991, Determining the sensitivity of the land surface in AGCMS to the parameterization of sub-grid scale processes. Implications for regional scale hydrological and meteorological simulations, in Vegetation and climate interactions in semi arid regions, edited by A. Henderson-Sellers and A.J. Pitman, Kluwer Academic Publ., pp. 121-135. ISBN 0-7923-1061-6.

Pitman, A.J., 1990, Modelling land surface-atmosphere interactions at different spatial scales, Proc. Centre for Mathematical Analysis, 25, 84-113, (Edited by G.A. Latham and J.A. Taylor), Australian National University, Canberra.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1989, Quantification of regional dry and wet canopy evaporation, in Soils and the Greenhouse effect, pp. 343-352, (ed) A.F. Bouwman, J. Wiley & Sons, 375pp.

Contribution to the Australian Encyclopedia

Refereed publications

Abramowitz, G., Pitman, A. J., Gupta, H., Kowalczyk, E. and Wang, Y., On the need for a biophysically based benchmark for land surface models, J. Hydrometeor., accepted.

Perkins, S.E., A.J. Pitman, N.J. Holbrook and J. McAneney, Ability of Global Climate Models At A Regional Scale Over Australia, Int. J. Environmental Technology and Management, Accepted Feburary 2007.

Perkins, S.E., A.J. Pitman, N.J. Holbrook and J. McAneney, Evaluation of the AR4 climate models' simulated daily maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation over Australia using probability density functions, J. Climate, accepted January 27^th, 2007.

Beaumont, L., A.J. Pitman, L. Hughes and M. Poulsen, Within and between climate model variability in the simulation of the impact of climate change on butterfly species in Australia, Global Change Biology, accepted, 19 December, 2006.

Pitman, A. J., Narisma, G.T. and McAneney, J., The impact of climate change on Australian bush fire risk, Climatic Change, accepted November, 2006.

Pitman, A.J, and Hesse, P., 2007, The significance of large scale land cover change on the Australian palaeomonsoon, Quaternary Research Letters, 26, 189-200.

Pitman, A.J. and R.J. Stouffer, 2006, Abrupt change in climate and climate models, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 903-912.

Guo, Z., P.A. Dirmeyer, R.D. Koster, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C.T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, J.L. McGregor, K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K.W. Oleson, A.J. Pitman, Y.C. Sud, C.M. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue and T. Yamada, 2006, GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part  Analysis, J. Hydrometeorol., 7, 611-625.

Koster, R. D., Z. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, C. M. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue, and T. Yamada, 2006, GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. 1. Overview, J. Hydrometeor., 7, 590-610.

Moles, A.T., D.D. Ackerly, J.C. Tweddle, J. B. Dickie, R. Smith, M.R, Leishman, M.M. Mayfield, A.J. Pitman, J.T. Wood and M. Westoby, 2006, Global patterns in seed size, Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi:10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00259.x, published article online 22 Aug 2006.

Gero, A., A.J. Pitman, G.T. Narisma, C. Jacobson, R.A. Pielke, 2006, The impact of land cover change on storms in the Sydney Basin, Australia, Global and Planetary Change, 54, 57-78.

Fox, S., Pitman, A.J., Boone, A., and Habets, F., 2006, The relationship between inter-model differences and surface energy balance complexity in the Rhône Aggregation Intercomparison Project,  J. Hydrometeorology, 7, 81-100.

Gero, A. and A.J. Pitman, 2006, The impact of land cover change on a simulated storm event in the Sydney Basin, J. Applied Meteorology, 45, 283-300.

Abramowitz, G., Gupta, H., Pitman, A.J., Wang, Y., Leuning, R. and Cleugh, H., 2006, Neural Error Regression Diagnosis (NERD): a tool for model bias identification and prognostic data assimilation, J. Hydrometeorology, 7, 160-177.

Narisma, G.T. and Pitman, A.J., 2006, Exploring the sensitivity of the Australian climate to regional land cover change scenarios under increasing CO2 concentrations and warmer temperatures, Earth Interactions, 10, 1-27.

Pitman, A.J. and G. Abramowitz, 2005, What are the limits to statistical error correction in land surface schemes when projecting the future ?, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L14403, doi:10.1029/2005GL023158.

McAneney. J. and Pitman, A.J., 2005, Global Climate Change: Fact or Urban Myth?, Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance Journal, 28(3), 18-21.

Moles, A.T., D.D. Ackerly, J.C. Tweddle, J.B. Dickie, A.J. Pitman and M. Westoby, 2005, Factors that shape seed size evolution, Proc. National Academy of Sciences, 102, 10540-10544.

Pitman, A.J. and Narisma, G.T., 2005, The role of land surface processes in regional climate change: a case study of future land cover change over South Western Australia, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 89, 235-249, DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0131-1.

Bagnoud, N., A.J. Pitman, B.J. McAvaney and N.J. Holbrook, 2005, The contribution of the land surface energy balance complexity to differences in means, variances and extremes using the AMIP-II methodology, Climate Dynamics, 25, 10.1007/s00382-005-0004-9, 171-188.

Peel, D., Pitman, A.J., Hughes, L. and Narisma, G., 2005, The impact of an explicit representation of Eucalyptus on the simulation of the January climate of Australia, Env. Modelling and Software, 20, 595-612.

Pitman, A.J., 2005, On the role of Geography in Earth System Science, Geoforum, 36, 137-148.

Zhao, M. and Pitman, A.J., 2005, The Relative Impact of Regional Scale Land Cover Change and Increasing CO₂ over China, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 22, 58-68.

Pitman, A.J., Narisma, G.T., Pielke, R. and Holbrook, N.J., 2004, The impact of land cover change on the climate of south west Western Australia, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D18109, doi:10.1029/2003JD004347.

Pitman, A.J., 2004, Geography: a critical discipline in Earth System Science, Geography Bulletin, 36, 4-13.

Koster, R.D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C.T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu C-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell,  D. Mocko, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A.J. Pitman, Y.C. Sud, C.M. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue and T. Yamada, 2004, Regions of coupling between soil moisture and precipitation, Science, 305, 1138-1140.

Narisma, G.T. and Pitman, A.J., 2004, The effect of including biospheric feedbacks on the impact of land cover change over Australia, Earth Interactions, 8, (5), 1-28.

Pitman, A.J., B.J. McAvaney, N. Bagnoud and B. Cheminat, 2004, Are inter-model differences in AMIP-II near surface air temperature means and extremes explained by land surface energy balance complexity ?, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L05205, doi: 10.1029/2003GL019233.

Boone, A., Habets, F., Noilhan, J., Clark, D., Dirmeyer, P., Fox, S., Gusev, Y., Haddeland, I., Koster, R., Lohmann, D., Mahanama, S., Mitchell, K., Nasonova, O.N., Niu, G.-Y., Pitman, A.J.,  Polcher, J., Shmakin, A.B., Tanaka, K., Van Den Hurk, B., Verant, S., Verseghy, D., Viterbo, P. And Yang, Z-L., 2004, The Rhone-Aggregation land surface scheme intercomparison project: An overview, J. Climate, 17, 187-208.

Pitman, A.J. and McAvaney, B.J., 2004, The impact of varying land surface energy balance complexity on the sensitivity of Australian climate to increasing carbon dioxide, Climate Research, 25, 191-203.

Narisma, G.T., Pitman, A.J., Eastman, J., Watterson, I., Pielke, R., Sr., Beltran, A., 2003, The role of biospheric feedbacks in the simulation of the impact of historical land cover change on the Australian January climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 2168, doi:10.1029/2003GL018261.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Irannejad, P., and McGuffie, K., Pitman, A.J., 2003, Predicting Land-surface climates-better skill or moving targets?, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1777, doi:10.1029/2003GL017387.

Pitman, A.J., 2003, The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed for climate models, Int. J. Climatol., 23, 479-510.

Wang, H., Pitman, A.J.,  Zhao, M. and Leeman, R., 2003, The Impact of Historical Land Cover Change on the June meteorology of China since 1700 Simulated Using a Regional Climate Model, International J. Climatology, 23, 511-527.

Luo, L., Robock, A., Vinnikov, K. Ya.,  Schlosser, C.A., Slater, A.G., Speranskaya, N.A., Boone, A., Braden, A., Chen, F., Cox, P., de Rosnay, P., Desborough, C.E., Dickinson, R.E., Dai, Y-J., Duan, Q.,  Entin, J., Etchevers, P., Henderson-Sellers, A., Gedney, N., Gusev, Y.M., Habets, F., Kim, J., Koren, V., Kowalczyk, E., Mitchell, K., Nasonova, O.N., Noilhan, J., Pitman, A.J., Schaake, J.,  Shmakin, A.B., Smirnova, T.G., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P.,  Xue, Y., Yang, Z-L., and Zeng, Q-C., Effects of Frozen Soil on Soil Temperature, Spring Infiltration, and Runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) Experiment at Valdai, Russia, 2003, J. Hydrometeorol.ogy, 4, 334-351.

Narisma, G.T. and Pitman, A.J., 2003, The impact of 200-years land cover change on the Australian near-surface climate. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 424-436.

Pitman, A.J., Y. Xia, M. Leplastrier A. Henderson-Sellers, 2003, The CHAmeleon Surface Model (CHASM): description and use with the PILPS Phase 2e forcing data, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 121-135.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 2002, Comments on "Suppressing impacts of the Amazonian deforestation by the global circulation change", Bull. American Meteorol. Soc., 83, 1657-1661.

Leplastrier, M., Pitman, A.J., Gupta, H., Xia, Y., 2002, Exploring the relationship between complexity and performance in a Land Surface Model using the Multi-Criteria Method, J. Geophysical Research, 107, 4443, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000931.

Pitman, A.J. and McAvaney, B.J., 2002, The role of surface energy balance complexity in land surface models' sensitivity to increasing carbon dioxide, Climate Dynamics, 19, 609-618.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A.J., Irannejad, P. and McGuffie, K., 2002, Land-surface simulations improve atmospheric modeling, EOS, 83, 145 and 152.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 2002, Evaluation of land-surface simulations - highest cited Australian research paper, Bull. Australian Meteorol. Ocean. Soc., 15, 6-12.

Zhao, M. and Pitman, A.J, 2002, The impact of land cover change and increasing carbon dioxide on the extreme and frequency of maximum temperature and convective precipitation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 2-1-2-4.

Xia, Y., J. Pitman, A.J., Gupta, H.V., Leplastrier, M., Henderson-Sellers, A., and Bastidas, L.A., Calibrating a land surface model of varying complexity using Multi-criteria Methods and the Cabauw Data Set, 2002, J. Hydrometeorology, 2, 181-194.

Zhao, M. and Pitman, A.J. 2002,The regional scale impact of land cover change simulated with a climate model, International J. Climatology, 22, 271-290.

Feddes, R.A. Hoff, H., Bruen, M., Dawson, T., de Rosnay, P., Dirmeyer, P., Jackson, R.B., Kabat, P., Kleidon, A., Lilly, A., Pitman, A.J., Modeling root water uptake in hydrological and climate models, 2001, Bull. American Meteorol. Soc., 82, 2797-2809.

Chase, T.N., Pielke, R.A., Kittel, T.G.F., Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J., Running, S.W., and Nemani, R.R., 2001, The relative climatic effects of land cover and elevated carbon dioxide combined with aerosols: A comparison of model results and observations, J. Geophysical Research, 106, 31,685-31,691.

Kirkup, H., Pitman, A.J. and Brierley, G., 2001, Analysing River Discharge And Rainfall in Coastal New South Wales, Australia using Wavelet Transforms, Australian Geographical Studies, 39, 313-334.

Pitman, A.J., 2001, Underlying uncertainty in the simulation of soil moisture and runoff from climate models, Australian Journal of Water Resources, 5, 1-17.

Zhang, H., Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A.J., McGregor, J.L., Desborough, C.E. and Katzfey, K., 2001, Limited-area model sensitivity to the complexity of representation of the land-surface energy balance, J. Climate, 14, 3965-3986.

Leese, J., Jackson, T. and Pitman, A.J., 2001, GEWEX/BAHC International Workshop on Soil Moisture Monitoring, Analysis and Prediction for Hydrometeorological and Hydroclimatological applications, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc.,  82, 1423-1430.

Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J. and Chase, T., 2001, Climatic effects of land cover change at different carbon dioxide levels, Climate Research, 17, 1-18.

Desborough, C.E., Pitman, A.J., McAvaney, B., 2001, Surface energy balance complexity in GCM land surface models, Part II: coupled simulations, Climate Dynamics, 17, 615-626.

Slater, A.G., Schlosser, C.A., Desborough, Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A., C.E., Robock, A., Vinnikov, K. Ya., Mitchell, K., Boone, A., Braden, H., Chen, F., Cox, P., de Rosnay, P., Dickinson, R.E., Dai, Y-J., Duan, Q., Entin, J., Etchevers, P., Gedney, N., Gusev, Y.M., Habets, F., Kim, J., Koren, V., Kowalczyk, E.,  Nasonova, O.N., Noilhan, J., Schaake, J., Shmakin, A.B., Smirnova, T.G., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P., Xue, Y., Yang, Z-L. and Zeng, Q., The representation of snow in land-surface schemes: results from PILPS 2(d), 2001, J. Hydrometeorology, 2, 7-25.

Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J. and Chase, T., 2001, The Impact of Land Cover Change on the Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Dynamics, 17, 467-477.

Pitman, A.J., 2000, Assessing the Uncertainty in the Simulation of Climate Change Resulting From the Representation of The Land Surface in Climate Models, in Biometeorology and Urban Climatology at the turn of the Millennium, de Dear, R.J., Kalma, J.D., Oke, T.R. and Auliciems, A. (eds), pp. 393-398.

Pitman, A.J. and Zhao, M., 2000, The relative Impact of observed change in land cover and carbon dioxide as simulated by a climate model, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 1267-1270.

Rich, D.C., Pitman, A.J., and Gosper. M., 2000, Integrated IT-based Geography Teaching and Learning: a Macquarie University case study, J. Geography in Higher Education, 24(1), 109-115.

Hallgren, W.S. and Pitman, A.J., 2000, The Sensitivity of a Global Biome Model (BIOME3) to Uncertainty in Parameter Values, Global Change Biology, 6, 483-495.

Schlosser, C.A., Slater, A.G., Robock, A., Pitman, A.J., Vinnikov, K. Ya., Henderson-Sellers, A., Speranskaya, N.A., Mitchell, K., Boone, A., Braden, H., Chen, F., Cox, P., de Rosnay, P., Desborough, C.E., Dickinson, R.E., Dai, Y-J., Duan, Q., Entin, J., Etchevers, P., Gedney, N., Gusev, Y.M., Habets, F., Kim, J., Koren, V., Kowalczyk, E.,  Nasonova, O.N., Noilhan, J., Schaake, J., Shmakin, A.B., Smirnova, T.G., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P., Xue, Y. and Yang, Z-L., 2000, Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS Phase 2(d), Monthly Weather Review, 128, 301-321.

Pitman, A.J., Gosper, M. and Rich, D.C., 1999, Internet based teaching in geography: An analysis of student use, Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 15, 167-187.

Pitman, A.J., Slater, A.G., Desborough, C.E. and Zhao, M., 1999, Uncertainty in the simulation of runoff due to the parameterization of frozen soil moisture using the GSWP methodology, J. Geophysical Research, 104, 16879-16888.

Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A., Yang, Z-L., Abramopoulos, F., Boone, A., Desborough, C.E., Dickinson, R.E., Gedney, N., Koster, R., Kowalczyk, E., Lettenmaier, D., Liang, X., Mahfouf, J-F., Noilhan, J., Polcher, J., Qu, W., Robock, A., Rosenzweig, C., Schlosser, C., Shmakin, A.B., Smith, J., Suarez, M., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P., Wood, E., Xue, Y., Key Results and Implications from Phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, 1999, Climate Dynamics, 15, 673-684.

Pitman, A.J., Zhao, M. and Desborough, C.E., 1999, Investigating the sensitivity of a land surface scheme to spatial and temporal leaf area index variability within the Global Soil Wetness Project, J. Meteorological Society of Japan, 77, 281-290.

Pitman, A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1998, Recent progress and results from the project for the intercomparison of land surface parameterization schemes, J. Hydrology, 212-213, 128-135.

Hutjes, R.W.A., Kabat., P., Running, S.W., Shuttleworth, W.J., Field, C., Bass, B., Assunçao da Silva Dias, M., Avissar, R., Becker, A., Claussen,  M., Dolman, A.J., Feddes, R.A., Fosberg, M., Fukushima, Y., Gash, J.H.C. Guenni, L., Hoff, H., Jarvis, P.G., Kayane, I., Krenke, A.N., Liu, C., Meybeck, M., Nobre, C.A., Oyebande, L., Pitman, A.J., Pielke, R.A., Raupach, M., Saugier, B., Schulze, E.D., Sellers, P.J., Tenhunen, J.D., Valentini, R., Victoria, R.L., Vörösmarty, C.J., 1998, Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle, 1998, J. Hydrology, 212-213, 1-21.

Polcher, J., McAvaney, B., Viterbo, P., Gaertner, M.-A., Hahmann, A., Mahfouf, J.-F., Noilhan, J., Phillips, T., Pitman, A.J., Schlosser, C.A., Schulz, J.-P., Timbal, B., Verseghy, D. and Xue, Y., A proposal for a general interface between land-surface schemes and general circulation models, 1998, Global and Planetary Change, 19, 261-276.

Desborough, C.E. and Pitman, A.J., 1998, The BASE land surface model, Global and Planetary Change, 19, 3-18.

Slater, A.G., Pitman, A.J. and Desborough, C.E., 1998, The simulation of freeze-thaw cycles in a GCM Land Surface Scheme, J. Geophysical Research (Atmosphere), 103, 11303-11312.

Kirkup, H. Brierley, G., Brooks, A. and A.J. Pitman, Temporal variability of climate in southeastern Australia - a reassessment of flood- and drought- dominated regimes, 1998, Australian Geographer, 29, 241-255.

Slater, A.G., Pitman, A.J. and Desborough, C.E., 1998, The validation of a snow parameterization designed for use in General Circulation Models, Int. J. Climatology, 18, 595-617.

Qu, W., Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A., Abramopoulos, T. C. F., Boone, A., Chang, S., Chen, F., Dai, Y., Dickinson, R., Duemenil, L., Ek, M., Gedney, N., Kim, Y. G. J., Koster, R., Kowalczyk, E., J. Lean, D. L., Liang, X., Mahfouf, J.-F., Mengelkamp, H.-T., Mitchell, K., Nasonova, O., Noilhan, J., Robock, A., Rosenzweig, C., Schlosser, J. S. C., Schulz, J.-P., Shmakin, A., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P., Wood, E., Yang, Z.-L., and Zeng, Q., 1998, Sensitivity of latent heat flux from PILPS land-surface schemes to perturbations of surface air temperature, 1998, J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1909-1927.

Rich, D.C., Pitman, A.J., Gosper, M. and Jacobson, C., 1997, Restructuring of Australian higher education: information technology in geography teaching and learning, Australian Geographer, 28, 135-157.

Chen, T.H.,  A. Henderson-Sellers, P.C.D. Milly, A.J. Pitman, and 38 authors; 1997, Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, J. Climate, 10, 1194-1215.

Timbal, B., Hahmann, A.N., Pitman, A.J., Qu, W., 1997, Henderson-Sellers, A. and slater, A., 1997, Integrating land-surface and atmospheric models, EOS, 78, 173-181.

Henderson-Sellers, A, McGuffie, K. and A.J. Pitman, 1996, The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS): 1992 to 1995, Climate Dynamics,  12, 849-859.

Chiew, F.H.S., Pitman, A.J. and McMahon, T.A., 1996, Conceptual catchment scale rainfall-runoff models and land-surface parameterisation schemes, J. Hydrology, 179, 137-157.

Desborough, C.E., Pitman, A.J. and Irannejad, P., 1996, Analysis of the Relationship Between Bare Soil Evaporation and Soil Moisture Simulated by 13 Land Surface Schemes for a Simple Non-Vegetated Site, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 47-56.

Pitman, A.J. and Desborough, C.E., 1996, Brief Description of Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer and results from simulations with the HAPEX-MOBILHY data, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 135-143.

Pitman, A.J. and Chiew, F.H.S., 1996,Testing a GCM land surface scheme against catchment scale runoff data, Climate Dynamics, 12, 685-699.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Dickinson, R.E. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, Atmosphere-landsurface modelling, Mathl. Comput. Modelling, 21, 5-10.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A.J., Love, P.K., Irannejad, P. and Chen, T., 1995, The project for Intercomparison of land surface parameterisaton schemes PILPS) Phases 2 and 3, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 76, 489-503.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Henderson-Sellers, B., Verner, J. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, Comprehensibility of PILPS (Project for the Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterisation Schemes) codes, J. Climate, 8, 1043-1059.

McGuffie, K., Henderson-Sellers, A., Zhang, H., Durbidge, T.B. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, Global climate sensitivity to tropical deforestation, Global and Planetary Change, 10, 97-128.

Pitman A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1995, Simulating the diurnal temperature range: Results from Phase 1(a) of the Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterisation Schemes (PILPS), Atmospheric Research, 37, 229-248.

Pitman, A.J., 1995, Simulating heterogeneous vegetation in climate models. Identifying at what scale secondary vegetation becomes important, Hydrological forecasting, 9, 719-728.

Yang, Z.-L., Pitman, A.J., McAvaney, B. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1995, The impact of implementing the Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer (BEST) land surface scheme into the BMRC GCM, Climate Dynamics, 11, 279-297.

Yang, Z-L., Dickinson, R.E., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, Preliminary study of spin-up processes in land surface models with the first stage of Project for Intercomparison of land surface Parameterisation Schemes Phase 1(a), J. Geophys. Res., 100, 16,553-16,578.

Pitman, A.J., 1994, On Assessing the Sensitivity of a Land Surface Scheme to the Parameter values using a Single Column Model, J. Climate, 7, 1856-1869.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Dickinson, R.E., Durbidge, T.B., Kennedy, P.J., McGuffie, K., and Pitman, A.J., 1993, Tropical deforestation: Modelling local to regional-scale climate change, J. Geophysical Research, 98, 7289-7315.

Pitman, A.J., 1993, The sensitivity of the land surface to the parameter values: a reassessment, in Macroscale modelling of the hydrosphere, Ed. W.B. Wilkinson, IAHS Publ. 241, pp. 125-132.

Pitman, A.J., Durbidge, T.B., McGuffie, K. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1993, Assessing climate model sensitivity to prescribed deforested landscapes, Int. J. Climatology, 13, 879-898.

Pitman, A.J., Yang, Z-L. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1993, Sub-grid Scale Precipitation in AGCMS: Re-assessing the Land Surface Sensitivity using a Single Column Model, Climate Dynamics, 9, 33-41.

Yang, Z.-L. and Pitman, A.J., 1993, Land-surface parameterisations for climate models: a new method for composite fluxes, in Exchange processes at the land surface for a range of space and time scales Ed. Bolle, H-J., Feddes, R.A. and Kalma, J.D., IAHS Publ. 212, pp. 551-560.

Yang, Z.-L. and Pitman, A.J., and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1993, Implementing an advanced land surface scheme into an AGCM: methodology and results, in Exchange processes at the land surface for a range of space and time scales Ed. Bolle, H-J., Feddes, R.A. and Kalma, J.D., IAHS Publ. 212, pp. 583-592.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1992, Interactive vegetation schemes for climate models: A glimpse of future problems, J. Geophysical Research, 97, 2687-2696.

Skelly, W.C., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1992, Land surface data: global climate modelling requirements, Geographical Information Systems and Environmental modelling, Edited by M.F. Goodchild, B.O. Parks and L.T. Steyaert, Oxford University Press, New York.

Pitman, A.J., 1991, Sensitivity of the land surface to sub-grid scale processes: implications for climate simulations, Vegetatio, 91, 121-134.

Pitman, A.J., 1991, The parameterization of sub-grid scale processes in climate models, in Hydrological interactions between atmosphere, soil and vegetation (edited by G. Kienitz, P.C.D. Milly, M. Th. Van Genuchten, D. Rosbjerg and W.J. Shuttleworth, IAHS Publ. 204, pp 65-74.

Pitman, A.J., 1991, A simple parameterization of sub-grid scale open water for climate models, Climate Dynamics, 6, 99-112.

Pitman, A.J., Giorgi, F. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1991, South East Australia's wintertime precipitation: sensitivity of climate predictions to model resolution, Australian Meteorological Magazine, 39, 21-35.

Thomas, G., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1991, Regional scale surface hydrologic simulations from global climate models: A case study, Atmosphere-Ocean, 29, 420-436.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A.J. and Dickinson, R.E., 1990, Sensitivity of the surface hydrology to the complexity of the land surface parameterization scheme employed, Atmosfera, 3, 183-201.

Kalma, J.D., Lyons, T.J. Nunez, M. and Pitman, A.J., 1990, Prediction and monitoring variability of mesoscale atmospheric systems, in Climate risk in crop production: models and management for the semi-arid tropics and sub-tropics, pp. 445-466, (eds) R.C. Muchow and J.A. Bellamy.

Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Yang, Y-Z., 1990, Sensitivity of the land surface to sub-grid scale precipitation in AGCMs, Nature, 346, 734-737.

Refereed publications (submitted)

Ashe, B., J. McAneney and A.J. Pitman, The cost of fire in Australia, J. Risk assessment, submitted.

Pitman, A.J. and Gero, A.F., Can land cover change explain observed changes in maximum and minimum January temperature changes over the Sydney Basin ?, Australian Meteorology Magazine, submitted, November, 2005.

Maxino, C.C., B.J. McAvaney, A.J. Pitman and S.E. Perkins, Ranking the AR4 climate models over the Murray-Darling Basin using simulated maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation, International Journal of Climatology, submitted 20^th December, 2006.

Pitman, A.J. and Perkins, S.E., Reducing uncertainty in selecting climate models for hydrological impact assessments, IAHS Press, submitted.

Book reviews

Mending the ozone hole by A. Makhijani and K.R. Gurney (MIT Press, 1995). ISBN 0-262-13308-3 for ISEM Newsletter. (1996), accepted.

Climate change and World Agriculture, by Parry, M.L., in Australian Geographer, 23, pp. 87-88 (1992)

Lecture notes for Earth Scientists, by Wammer, H. and Siegenthaler, U. (eds), in Climate Change, 16, 364-366 (1990).

Energy and Ecology, by Gates, D.M. in ISEM Newsletter 5, (2), 11-12, (1987).

Communicating in geography and the environmental sciences, by Hay, I., in Australian Geographer, 29, 263-264. 1998.

Climate processes and change, by Bryant, E., Australian Geographer, 29, 266-267. 1998.

Climate Change - turning up the heat, by Barrie Pittock, Aust/ Meteorol. Mag., 55, 165-7, 2006.

Non-refereed publications

Conference proceedings and reports

Bindoff, N.L., England, M.E., Pitman, A.J., Roberts, J., 2006, Earth Systems Modelling in the University Sector, Contributions to ACCESS, BMRC Reseach Report, 123, (Eds, A.J. Hollis and A.P. Kariko), pp. 127.

Pitman, A.J., 2006, Overview of Terrestrial Modelling, BMRC Research Report, 123, (Eds, A.J. Hollis and A.P. Kariko), pp. 78.

Perkins, S.E., A.J. Pitman, N.J. Holbrook and J. McAneney, Ability of Global Climate Models At A Regional Scale Over Australia, Environmental Research Event, 10th Australasian Conference, Macquarie University, New South Wales, 10-13th December 2006, submitted.

Pitman, A.J., 2005, Geography: a critical discipline in Earth System Science, Queensland Geographer, 36, 15-26 (reprinted from the Geography Bulletin, 36, 4-13).

Pitman, A.J., 2002, Is land cover change a significant cause of changes in maximum temperature and extreme precipitation?, BMRC Research Report, 90, 137-142.

Pitman, A.J. and McAvaney, B.J., 2001, The sensitivity surface and near-surface quantities: the role of surface energy balance complexity in land surface models, GEWEX News, 11, 4-6.

Pitman, A.J., 2001, PILPS contines, building on success, BAHC/GEWEX News joint issue, 11, 6-7.

Polcher, J., Cox, P., Dirmeyer, P., Dolman, H., Gupta, H., Henderson-Sellers, A., Houser, P., Koster, R.., Oki, T., Pitman, A.J. and Viterbo, P., 2000, GLASS: Global Land-atmosphere system study, WCRP- GEWEX News, 10(2), 3-5.

Hesse, P., Pitman, A.J., Adamson, D. and Kaplan, J.O., 2000, Constraining LGM climate change in southern Australia with proxy evidence of aeolian processes and BIOM4 modelling of vegetation change, in Regional analysis of Australian Quaternary studies: strengths, gaps and future directions, 7-9th February, 2000, Australian National University.

Pitman, A.J., 1999, Assessing the Uncertainty in the Simulation of Climate Change Resulting From the Representation of The Land Surface in Climate Models, in Proceedings of the 15^th International Congress of biometeorology and International Conference on Urban Climatology, Sydney, 8-12th November, 1999. de Dear, R.J. and Potter, J.C. (Eds.). ISBN: 1 86408 543 6. pp. ICB24.1.1-ICB24.1.6.

Chase, T.N., Pielke, R.A., Zhao, M., Pitman, A.J., Kittel, T.G.F., Nemani, R.R. and Running, S.W., 1999, The global effects of tropical heating anomalies resulting from landcover changes, in preprint volume of the Eighth Conference on Climate Variations, 13-17^th September, 1999, American Meteorology Society, Denver, CO, USA, pp 213-217.

Pitman, A.J., Zhao, M., Slater, A.G. and Desborough, C.E., 1999, Simulating the sensitivity of continental and catchment scale runoff to parameterization of frozen soil moisture using the global soil wetness project methodology, in Preprint volume of the 3^rd International science conference on the global energy and water cycle, 16-19 June, Beijing, China, pp. 376.

Slater, A.G., Schlosser, C.A., Desborough, C.E., Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A., Robock, A. and PILPS 2(d) participants, 1999, The representation of snow in land-surface schemes: Results from PILPS 2(d), in Proceedings of the 14^th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, held in Dallas, Texas, 10-15th January, 1999. pp. 312-313.

Hopkins, L.C., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1999, Status of the Project for the Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization schemes (PILPS), in Proceedings of the 14^th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, held in Dallas, Texas, 10-15th January, 1999. pp. 320-323.

Pitman, A.J., Pielke, R., Avissar, R., Claussem, M., Gash, J. and Dolman, H., 1999, The role of the land surface in weather and climate: does the land surface matter ?, International Geosphere Biosphere Program Newsletter, 39, 4-11.

Timbal, B., Hahmann, A., Pitman, A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1997, New developments for the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterisation schemes: Phase 4, Report of the WMO/IAHS Workshop: Continental-scale Hydrological Models: Charting the Future, Wallingford, UK, November 1996, World Climate Research Programme, 91pp.

Schlosser, C.A., Pitman, A.J., Slater, A.G. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1997, Experimental design and preliminary results from PILPS Phase 2(d), WCRP GEWEX News. 7, 9-11.

Qu, W., Henderson-Sellers, A., Pitman, A.J. and Chen, T-H., 1996, Cabauw sensitivity experimental results from PILPS, GEWEX Technical report, IGPO Publication Series, No. 24 (Dec 1996), 50pp.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Polcher, J., Chen, T.H., Nakken, M. and Pitman, A.J., 1996, Predicting Global Change at the Land-surface: the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) (Phase 4), Procs. Seventh Symposium on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 59-66.

Chen, T.H. Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, The Linkage of Surface Energy Budget and Water Budget in Current Landsurface Process Simulations, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Proceedings, Newcastle, Australia, 27 - 30 Nov 1995.

Henderson-Sellers, A., McGuffie, K. and Pitman, A.J., 1995, The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS): 1992 to 1995, submitted for Proceedings of the Third International Conference  on Modelling of Climate Change and Variability, Max Plank Institute für Meteorologie, September 4-8, 1995.

Chiew, F., Pitman, A.J. and McMahon, T., 1994, Land surface parameterisation schemes and conceptual rainfall-runoff models, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Research Report, 46, 47-52.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1994, The GCIP/WGNE Project of the intercomparison of land surface parameterisation schemes (PILPS), American Meteorological Society Preprint Volume, Nashville, 1994.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1994, The Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterisation Schemes (PILPS): Current status. Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Research report, 46, 33-38.

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1994, The Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS): Improving Models of Energy and Water Fluxes, in Proceedings of the European Conference on The Global Energy and Water Cycle, 18-22 July, 1994, Royal Society, London.

Kalma, J.D. and Calder, I.R. with contributions from Lyons, T.J., Nunez, N., Pitman, A.J. and Vörösmarty, C.J., 1994, Land surface processes in large-scale hydrology, World Meteorological Organisation, Operational Hydrology report, 40, 60pp.

Pitman, A.J. and Schlosser, C.A., 1994, Results from Phase 1b of the Project for the Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterisation Schemes (PILPS), Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre research report, 46, 39-46.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Yang, Z.-L., Pitman, A.J. and Dickinson, R.E., 1993, PILPS (The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes) Phase One, Preprint Volume  of the Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 137-138

Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1993, Simulating the diurnal temperature range: results from Phase 1(a) of the Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS), in Asymmetric Change of Daily Temperature Range (eds. G. Kukla, T.R. Karl and M.R. es), US Department of Energy, DE-FG02-85ER60372, 353-368.

Henderson-Sellers, A., Dickinson, R.E. and Pitman, A.J., 1993, Atmosphere-landsurface modelling, Procs. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, (ed. M. McAleer and A. Jakeman), MSSA/IMACS, 31-36.

Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A., Abramopoulos, F., Avissar, R., Bonan, G., Boone, A., Cogley, J.G., Dickinson, R.E., Ek, M., Entekhabi, D., Famiglietti, J., Garratt, J.R., Frech, M.,  Hahmann, A., Koster, R., Kowalczyk, E., Laval, K., Lean, L., Lee, T.J., Lettenmaier, D., Liang, X., Mahfouf, J-F., Mahrt, L., Milly, C., Mitchell, K., de Noblet, N., Noilhan, J., Pan, H., Pielke, R., Robock, A., Rosenzweig, C., Running, S.W., Schlosser, A., Scott, R., Suarez, M., Thompson, S., Verseghy, D., Wetzel, P., Wood, E., Xue, Y., Yang, Z-L., Zhang, L., 1993, Results from the off-line Control Simulation Phase of the Project for Intercomparison of Land surface Parameterisation Schemes (PILPS), GEWEX technical note, IGPO Publication Series, 7, 47pp.

A. Henderson-Sellers and Pitman, 1993, Project for the intercomparison of land surface parameterisation schemes (PILPS). First results from Phase 2, GEWEX News, 3, 4-5.

Pitman A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1993, Simulating the diurnal temperature range: Results from Phase 1(a) of the Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterisation Schemes (PILPS), DOE conference proceedings series, December, 1993.

Cogley, J.G., Pitman, A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1993, Simplified forcing for a model of large scale land-surface climate, Trent Technical Note, 93-1, Trent University, Canada.

Pitman, A.J. and Yang, Z.-L., 1992, Preliminary results of incorporating an advanced land surface scheme into the BMRC GCM, BMRC Research Report, 33, 241-265.

Skelly, W.C., Henderson-Sellers, A. and Pitman, A.J., 1991, Land surface data: climate modelling requirements, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on the Integration of GIS and Env. Modelling, Boulder, CO. September, 1991.

Pitman, A.J., Yang, Z.-L., Cogley, J.G. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1991, Description of Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer for the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre AGCM, BMRC Research Report, 32, 117pp. 

Giorgi, F., Pitman, A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1990, Impact of an imposed sea surface anomaly on storm precipitation simulated using a regional model embedding in an AGCM, BMRC Research Report, 21, 101-103, (edited by J.D. Jasper, April, 1990).

Cogley, J.G., Pitman, A.J. and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1990, A model of land surface climatology for General Circulation Models, Trent Technical Note, 90-1, Trent University, Canada.

Pitman, A.J., Cogley, J.G., and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1990, Calibration of a model of large scale land-surface climate, Trent Technical Note, 90-2, Trent University, Canada.

Pitman, A.J., Cogley, J.G., and Henderson-Sellers, A., 1990, Calibration of a model of large scale land-surface climate, Trent Technical Note, 90-2, Trent University, Canada.

Pitman, A.J., Henderson-Sellers, A., and Cogley, J.G., 1989, Data sets for land surface schemes and experience in incorporating vegetation parameterizations in GCMs, Proc. ECMWF workshop on parameterization of fluxes over land surface, October, 1988, 345-370.