Weather Forecasting Group

• Diplom (M.S. equivalent) Meteorology, University of Munich, Germany, 1993
• Ph.D. Meteorology, Monash University, Australia, 1997

• Improvement of the Land-Surface Scheme within the operational Australian weather forecast models
• VB95 stand-alone model output
• The effects of irrigation in the Goulburn-Murray region
• Goulburn Murray Water (GMW) forecast needs
• Soil moisture and soil temperature initialization within Meso_LAPS
• Deep moist convection in the extratropics, in particular convective initiation

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• Richter, H. and R. J. Atkinson, 1999: The signature of cyclonic PV filaments in the lower stratosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 24,281-24,295.
• Richter, H. and L. F. Bosart, 2002 : The suppression of deep moist convection near the Southern Great Plains dryline. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 1665-1691.
• Richter, H. and M. J. Reeder, 2002: Isentropic upper-level frontogenesis and tropopause folding. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., in preparation.
• Bosart, L.F., W. E. Bracken, and H. Richter, 2002: The 1993 New England `Surprise' snowstorm. Mon. Wea. Rev., in preparation.
• Richter, H., R. K. Smith, and B. R. Morton, 2002: The radial confinement of the meridional flow in laminar vortices. J. Fluid Mech., in preparation.
• Richter, H., A. W. Western and F. H. S. Chiew, 2003: Land surface hydrology comparisons between the Viterbo and Beljaars land surface scheme and observations. MODSIM 2003, 14-17 July 2003, Townsville, Australia (accepted).
• Reeder, M. J., R. K. Smith, R. Goler, J. Beringer, N. J. Tapper, T. Keenan, P. May, H. Richter, G. Jackson, B. Seymour and J. Hacker, 2003: Gulf Lines Experiment 2002. Bulletin of the Aus. Met. And Ocean. Soc. (submitted).

• Siriwardena, L., F. Chiew, H. Richter and A. Western, 2003: Preparation of a Climate Data Set for the Murrumbidgee River Catchment. Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Working Document 03/01.
• Richter, H., and C. E. Hane, 2002: Initiation of severe convection along the dryline of the southern United States. 14th BMRC Modelling Workshop, 12-14 November 2002, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 51-55.
• Richter, H. and G. A. Mills, 2002: Soil moisture in weather forecast models. Catchword No. 102 [Newsletter of the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology], pp. 10-12.
• Western, A. W., H. Richter, F. H. S. Chiew, R. I. Young, G. A. Mills, R. B. Grayson, M. Manton and T. McMahon, 2002: Testing the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's land surface scheme using soil moisture observations from the Murrumbidgee catchment. Proceedings, 27th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.
• Richter, H., G. A. Mills and K. K. Puri, 2002: The Initialisation of Soil Moisture in the Limited Area Prediction System (LAPS). 9th National Aust. Met. and Oceanographic Soc. Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 18-20 February 2002.
• Richter, H. and L. F. Bosart, 2000: The Suppression of Deep Moist Convection near the Southern Plains Dryline. Preprints, 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Orlando, FL, Amer. Met. Soc., 622-625.
• Richter, H. and L. F. Bosart, 1999: A three-dimensional real-data modeling study of the Southern Plains
dryline using MM5. Preprints, 8th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 236-239. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.
• Richter, H., 1996: Article on `tornado chasing' in Met Talk, a newsletter of the Cooperative Reserach Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology (CRC SHM).