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Email

simmonds@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
Flinders University of South Australia
Bachelors Degree
Monash University
ORCID

0000-0002-4479-3255

Prof Ian Simmonds

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

301 Scholarly works
24 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    A new metric for net extratropical cyclone activity and its insights into surface climate trends
    DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/ae4cc4
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Predicting the unprecedented: assessing contributions from large-scale modes of variability and climate change to Southeast Australia’s record spring rainfall in 2022
    DOI: 10.1007/s00382-026-08122-2
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Interannual and Intraseasonal Variability in the Southern Hemisphere
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009352680.013
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Recent Accelerated Decadal Shift in Winter North American Temperature Patterns Under Pacific-Atlantic Decadal Variability
    DOI: 10.1029/2025EF006006
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Causality in the Winter Interaction Between Extratropical Storm Tracks, Atmospheric Circulation, and Arctic Sea Ice Loss
    DOI: 10.1029/2024JD042128
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Impacts of Background Conditions on the Evolutionary Disparities between Greenland and Euro-Atlantic Blocking
    DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-24-0016.1
  • 2016

    Research Contracts

    Victorian Government (DELWP) to Fund One UoM Master’s Degree Student and One Workshop Related to Climate Change.
Ian Simmonds

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2009
The International Journal of Climatology Award for 2008 Royal Meteorological Society
2004
Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2000
(Inaugural) Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Medal 2000. Leadership in meteorology, oceanography, and climate. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Origins of Barents-Kara sea-ice interannual variability modulated by the Atlantic pathway of ENSO
    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1703
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Rapid summer Russian Arctic sea-ice loss enhances the risk of recent Eastern Siberian wildfires
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49677-0
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The role played by the Indian Ocean High in affecting winter precipitation over Victoria, Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2024.101484
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Arctic amplification-induced intensification of planetary wave modulational instability: A simplified theory of enhanced large-scale waviness
    DOI: 10.1002/qj.4740

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2016

    Research Grant

    Trends in Polar Sea Ice and Associated Global Atmospheric Circulations
  • 2014

    Research Grant

    Tropical Climate Change, the Hadley and Walker Circulations, and Australian Climate
  • 2013

    Research Grant

    The Analysis of Antarctic Upper Air and Surface Temperature Trends Since IGY and the Identification of Their Causes Using Climate Model Analyses
  • 2013

    Research Grant

    Weekly Cycles of Atmospheric Parameters Over Australia and the Quantification of Human Influences on Climate

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