Ocean and Marine Forecasting Group

Contact Details: Email : H.Beggs@bom.gov.au Phone: +61-(0)3-9669-4394 Fax : +61-(0)3-9669-4660 Postal Address: Bureau of Meteorology. BMRC. GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 Australia

Personal Data: Education Interests & Research Publications

Education:

• PhD (1996)
  Thesis title:Air-Sea Exchange of CO₂ over the Antarctic Seasonal Ice Zone
  Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
  University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
• MSc (1989)
  Thesis title: A Study of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances over Macquarie Island using an Oblique cw HF Sounder
  Department of Theoretical and Space Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• BSc (Hons) in Physics (1984)
  University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Interests & Research:

A wide-ranging background in experimental physics and observational oceanography, working in fluid dynamics, upper atmospheric physics, atmosphere/ocean gas fluxes, ocean currents and sea surface temperatures.
Currently working as part of the BLUElink Project on developing a real-time high resolution sea surface temperature analysis system for the Australian region, blending SST data from infra-red and microwave instruments on polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites (AVHRR, AATSR, GOES-9 Imager, MTSAT-1R and AMSR-E), with in situ data from buoys, ships, XBTs and ARGO floats.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed publications

• Beggs H.M., E.A. Essex and D. Rasch (1994) Antarctic polar cap total Jelectron content observations from Casey Station, J. Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 56, 656-666.
• Burns G.B. and H.M. Beggs (1992) Magnetic time for Australia's Antarctic stations, ANARE Research Notes, 88, ed. G. Burns and M. Duldig, pub. Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania Australia, p. 99-111.
• Beggs H.M., E.A. Essex and D. Rasch (1992) Antarctic polar cap electron content observations using a differential phase technique at Casey Station, ANARE Research Notes, 88, ed. G. Burns and M. Duldig, pub. Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania Australia, p. 143-154.
• Beggs H.M. (1991) Correlation between variations in the amplitude and change in phase path of a radio signal reflected from a travelling ionospheric disturbance, J. Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 53, 577-580.
• Beggs H.M. and E.C. Butcher (1989) A study of travelling ionospheric disturbances over Macquarie Island using an oblique cw sounder, Planetary and Space Science, 37, 967-977.

Published Conference Proceedings

• Beggs Helen (2000) Acquisition of vessel-mounted narrowband and broadband ADCP data using a Sun logging system, Proceedings from INMARTECH98, International Marine Technician Symposium, October 20-22, 1998, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA, edited by Woody Sutherland, 269-275.
• Francey, R.J., Enting, I., Beggs, H.M., Tilbrook, B., Allison, C.E., Law, R.M., Rayner, P. and Zhong, A. (1997) The spatial variation in delta13C of CO₂ in the Southern Hemisphere, Fifth International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Queensland, 8-12 September 1997, Fifth International Carbon Dioxide Conference Committee, Australia, R. Baum et al., 194195.
• Beggs, H. M. and B. Tilbrook (1996). Uptake of CO₂ in the Antarctic seasonal ice zone. AMSA '96 National Conference, 10- 13 July 1996. Hobart, Australia, Australian Marine Sciences Association, 21.
• Beggs, H., B. Tilbrook, R. Francey and S. Wright (1994). Observations of a seasonal sink for CO₂ in the vicinity of Prydz Bay, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, 21-25 February 1994. San Diego, USA, American Geophysical Union - EOS Transactions. 75(3), 219.
• Francey R.J., C.E. Allison, I.G. Enting, H.M. Beggs and B. Tilbrook (1993) The observed distribution of ¹³CO₂ in the atmosphere, 4th International CO₂ Conference Extended Abstracts, Carqueiranne, France, 13-17 September 1993, 189-192.
• Tilbrook Bronte, Helen Beggs, Mark Pretty and Denis Mackey (1993) Variability in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide for Southern Ocean surface waters, 4th International CO₂ Conference Extended Abstracts, Carqueiranne, France, 13-17 September 1993, 233.