Current Students (May 2025)

  • Gabrielle Ching-Johnson: Where do we need high resolution in the ocean?
  • Ankit Bhandekar (with Laura Wilcox): Accelerating the computation of air quality projections over India using novel computing.
  • Sambit Panda (co-supervisor, lead supervisor is Todd Jones): Developing Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Enhance Representations of Turbulence in Atmospheric Models.

Previous Doctoral Students

  • D. Galea, 2022: Meteorological data reduction for tropical cyclones using deep learning techniques. (2025)
  • M. Jones, 2017: Parallel Data Analysis for Atmospheric Science (2020)
  • A. Osprey, 2015: Benchmark-driven performance modelling for high utilisation of multicore HPC systems. (2020)
  • J. Flowerdew, 2009: Evaluating cloud parameterisations in GCMS. (2020)
  • J. Ajtic 2004: Signatures of the Antarctic Vortex in Ozone Observations over New Zealand. (2020)
  • J. Grant 2003: Measuring mesospheric ionisation (deceased)
  • M. Chattopadhyay, 2003: Gravity Waves in Climate Models. (2020)
  • S. Dean 2003: Parameterising Orographic Clouds in GCMs. (2020)
  • S. Osprey 2001: Gravity Wave Processes in the Atmosphere. (2020)
  • M. Plagmann 1999: Atmospheric Temperatures and Winds observed using a Fabry PerotSpectrometer. (2020)
  • A.J. Dunford 1998: The Canterbury University ST Atmospheric Radar Development: Design and Feasibility. (2020)
  • D. Frame, 1998: Gravity Wave Breaking in the Southern Mesosphere. (2020)
  • A. Reisinger, 1998: Spectroscopic Analysis of Trace Gas Concentrations in the Urban Atmosphere. (2018)
  • S. Rosier, 1996: Dynamical Evolution of the Northern Stratosphere in Early Winter, 1991/1992: Observational and Modelling Studies. (2020)

Previous Masters Thesis students

  • D.Ferrier, 1998; Semi-Lagrangian Transport.
  • C. Noble, 1998: Forecasting Vortex Filaments