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Refereed Papers

Colman, R.A., 2003: On the Seasonal Cycle of Climate Feedbacks. Climate Dynamics , 825-841.

Timbal, B., Power, S., Colman, R.A., Viviand, J. and Lirola, S., 2002: Does soil moisture influence climate variability and predictability over Australia?, J. Climate, 15, 1230-1238.

Colman, R.A., 2002: Geographical Contributions to Global Sensitivity in a General Circulation Model. Global and Planetary Change,32,211-243.

Colman, R.A., Fraser, J.R. and Rotstayn L., 2001: Climate Feedbacks in a General Circulation Model Incorporating Prognostic Clouds. Climate Dynamics, 18, 103-122.

Colman, R.A., 2001: On the Vertical Extent of Atmospheric Feedbacks. Climate Dynamics,17, 391-405.

Contributor to IPCC Climate Change 2001: The Third Assessment Report, Chapter 8: Validation of Climate Models.

Watterson, I.G., Dix, M.R. and Colman, R.A., 1999: A comparison of present and doubled CO₂, climates and feedbacks simulated by three GCMs. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 1943-1956.

Colman, R.A. , Power, S.B. and B.J. McAvaney, 1997: Non-linear climate feedback analysis in an atmospheric GCM. Clim. Dynam. 13, 717-731.

Colman, R.A. and B.J. McAvaney, 1997: A study of GCM climate feedbacks from perturbed SST experiments. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 19383-19402.

Cess, R.D. et al. (Including Colman, R.A.), 1997: Comparison of the seasonal change in cloud-radiative forcing from atmospheric general circulation models and satellite observations. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16593-16603.

Kleeman, R. Colman, R.A., Smith, N.R. and Power, S.B., 1996: A recent change in the mean state of the Pacific basin climate: Observational evidence and atmospheric and ocean responses. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 101, 20483-20499.

McAvaney, B.J. and Colman, R.A., 1996: Dependence of model 'climate sensitivity' on convective parameterisation. In 'Assessing Climate Change', W. Howe and A. Henderson-Sellers, eds, Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, pp 207-216.

McAvaney, B.J. and Colman, R.A., 1996: Water Vapour and Cloud Feedback in the BMRC AGCM. In 'Climate Sensitivity to Radiative Perturbations: Physical Mechanisms and Their Validation', NATO ASI Series 1, Vol. 34, H. Le Treut, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 171-190.

Cess, R.D. et al. (Including Colman, R.A.), 1996: Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 12791-12794.

Contributor to IPCC Climate Change 1995 Chapter 6: Climate models - Projections of future change.

Colman, R.A., Power, S.B., McAvaney, B.J. and Dahni, R.R., 1995: A non-flux corrected transient CO₂ experiment using the BMRC coupled atmosphere/ocean GCM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 3047-3050.

Colman, R.A., and B.J. McAvaney, 1995: The sensitivity of the climate response of an atmospheric general circulation model to changes in convective parametrization and horizontal resolution. J. Geophys. Res. 100, 3155-3172.

Hess, G.D., Colman, R.A., and B.J. McAvaney, 1995: On computing screen temperatures and humidities and anemometer height winds in large-scale models, Aust. Met. Mag., 44, 139-145.

Power, S.B., F. Tseitkin, M. Dix, R. Kleeman, R.A. Colman and D. Holland, 1995: Stochastic variability at the air-sea interface on decadal timescales. Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2593-2596.

Power, S.B., R. Kleeman, R.A. Colman and B.J. McAvaney, 1995: Modelling the surface heat flux response to long-lived SST anomalies in the North Atlantic. J. Climate, 8, 2161-2180.

McAvaney, B.J., Dahni, R.R., Colman, R.A. and Fraser, J.R., 1995: The dependence of the climate sensitivity on convective parametrization: statistical evaluation. Global and Planetary Change, 10, 181-200.

Gleckler, P.J., et al. (Including Colman, R.A.), 1995: Cloud-radiative effects on implied oceanic energy transports as simulated by atmospheric general circulation models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 791-794.

Colman, R.A. , B.J. McAvaney, J.R. Fraser and S.B. Power, 1994: Annual Mean Meridional Energy Transport Modelled by a General Circulation Model for Present and 2xCO₂ Equilibrium Climates, Climate Dynamics. 10, 221-229.

Colman, R.A. , B.J. McAvaney, J.R. Fraser, L.J. Rikus and R.R. Dahni, 1994: Snow and Cloud Feedbacks Modelled by an Atmospheric General Circulation Model, Climate Dynamics, 9, 253-265.

Randall, D.A., et al. (Including Colman, R.A.), 1994: Analysis of snow feedbacks in fourteen general circulation models, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20757-20771

Colman, R.A. , B.J. McAvaney, and R.T. Wetherald, 1994: Sensitivity of the Australian Surface Hydrology and Energy Budgets to a Doubling of CO₂, Aust. Met. Mag. 43, 105-116.

Colman, R.A. and G.J.F. Legge, 1994: An investigation of the optics of a 5-element electrostatic lens for use with a high brightness ion source and a Proton Microprobe, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. B84, 515-520.

Colman, R.A. and G.J.F. Legge, 1994: An Investigation of Low Aberration Electrostatic Lenses for use with a Field Ionization Ion Source and a Proton Microprobe, Optik, 95, 99-108.

Cess, R.D., et al. (Including Colman, R.A.), 1993: Uncertainties in CO₂ radiative forcing in atmospheric general circulation models, Science, 262, 1252-1255.

Colman, R.A. and G.J.F. Legge, 1993: Measurement of the Optical Properties of an Asymmetric Einzel Lens Using the Two Grid Method, J. Appl. Phys., 74, 1484-1491.

Colman, R.A. and G.J.F. Legge, 1993: An Investigation of the Optics of an Accelerating Column for use with a High Brightness Ion Source and a Proton Microprobe, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. B73, 561-569.

Colman, R.A. , G.L. Allan and G.J.F. Legge, 1992: An Analysis of the Optics of a Field Ionization Ion Source for Application with a Scanning Proton Microprobe, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63, 5653-5660.

Cess, R.D.,et al., (Including Colman, R.A.) 1991: Intercomparison and Interpretation of Snow-Climate Feedback Processes in Seventeen Atmospheric General Circulation Models, Science, 253, 888-892.

Legge, G.J.F., et al., (Including Colman, R.A.) 1986: Microbeam Imaging at Micron and Submicron Resolution, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. B15, 669-674 .

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