Journal Publications

  1. Penelope Maher, Edwin Gerber, Brian Medeiros, Timothy Merlis, Steven C. Sherwood, Aditi Sheshadri, Adam Sobel, Geoffrey K. Vallis, Aiko Voigt and Pablo Zurita-Gotor The value of hierarchies and simple models in atmospheric research. Manuscript submitted to Reviews of Geophysics in May 2018.
  2. Penelope Maher, Geoffrey K. Vallis, Mark J. Webb, Steven C. Sherwood and Philip G. Sansom (2018): The Impact of Parameterized Convection on Precipitation Climatology in Atmospheric Global Climate Models Published in GRL. Click here for the abstract and link to the paper.
  3. Geoffrey K. Vallis, Greg Colyer, Ruth Geen Edwin Gerber, Martin Jucker, Penelope Maher, Alexander Paterson, Marianne Pietschnig, James Penn, and Stephen Thomson (2018): Isca, v1.0: a framework for the global modelling of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets at varying levels of complexity. Geoscientific Model Development, 11, 843-859. Click here for the abstract and link to the paper.
  4. Penelope Maher and Steven C. Sherwood (2016): Skill in simulating Australian precipitation at the tropical edge. Journal of Climate, 29, 1477-1496. Click here for the abstract and link to the paper.
  5. Penelope Maher and Steven C. Sherwood (2014): Disentangling the multiple sources of large-scale variability in Australian wintertime precipitation. Journal of Climate, 27, 6377-6392. Click here for the abstract and link to the paper.
  6. King, Andrew D., Nicholas P. Klingaman, Lisa V. Alexander, Markus G. Donat, Nicolas C. Jourdain and Penelope Maher (2014): Extreme Rainfall Variability in Australia: Patterns, Drivers, and Predictability. Journal of Climate, 27, 6035-6050. Click here for abstract and link to the paper.

Research Thesis

  1. Penelope Maher PhD thesis 2014: An investigation into the interaction between large-scale variability and precipitation. Supervised primarily by Steven Sherwood.
  2. Penelope Kent Honours (masters equivalent) thesis 2008: Nitrogen from the Australian desert: A globally significant intermittent source of soil NOx? Supervised primarily by Guergana Guerova. Download my honours thesis here.

Conference Publications and Presentations

    2017

  1. Maher P. et al., A tale of convection, jets and model development.
    Oral presentation for the University of Exeter seminar series. 17 November, Exeter, UK.
  2. Maher P. et al., A tale of convection, jets and model development.
    Invited oral presentation for the University of Melbourne seminar series. 26 October, Melbourne, Australia.
  3. Maher P. et al., A tale of convection, jets and model development.
    Oral presentation for the Monash University seminar series. 25 October, Melbourne, Australia.
  4. Maher P. et al., A tale of convection, jets and model development.
    Oral presentation for the CCRC seminar series. 17 October, Sydney, Australia.
  5. Maher P., G. Vallis., M. Webb, S. Sherwood and P. Sansom How does parameterised convection affect model climatology?
    3rd National Climate Dynamics Workshop, 17-18 July 2017, Exeter, UK. Oral presentation.
  6. Maher P., G. Vallis., M. Webb, S. Sherwood and P. Sansom How does parameterised convection affect model climatology?
    The Future of Cumulus Parametrization, 10-14 July 2017, Delft, The Netherlands. Oral presentation.
  7. Maher P., G. Vallis., M. Webb, S. Sherwood and P. Sansom Do We Need Parameterised Convection to Get the Model Climatology Right?
    21st Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics 19th Conference on Middle Atmosphere, 26-30 June 2017, Portland, USA. Oral presentation.

    8. 2016

  8. Maher P. WCRP Model Hierarchies Workshop, 2-4 November 2016, Princeston University, USA. Session chair.
  9. Maher P. and G. Vallis. Convection, jets and atmospheric circulation in an idealized aquaplanet model.
    Atmosphere Ocean Siences Colloquium seminar, 31 October 2016, New York University, USA.
  10. Maher P. and G. Vallis. Does parameterised convection contribute to the eddy driven jet mean-state bias?
    Oral presentation at DynVar, 6-10 June 2016 in Helsinki, Finland.

    11. 2015

  11. Maher P., S. Sherwood and G. Vallis. A mixed bag of model development, convection and atmospheric variability.
    Oral presentation for the CCRC seminar series. 9 December, Sydney, Australia.
  12. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Covariability of Southern Hemisphere tropical edge metrics with the SAM.
    Oral presentation for the Exeter Climate seminar series. 30 October, Exeter, United Kingdom.
  13. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Covariability of Southern Hemisphere tropical edge metrics and the SAM.
    SPARC workshop on storm tracks, 24-28 August 2015 in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Oral presentation and session chair.
  14. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Covariability of Southern Hemisphere tropical edge metrics with the SAM.
    20th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 15-19 June 2015 in Minneapolis, USA.
    Poster presentation. Read more or download the poster.

    15. 2014

  15. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Disentangling the multiple sources of large-scale variability in Australian wintertime precipitation.
    CoECSS Annual Workshop, Hunter Valley, Australia, November 24-27, 2014. Poster presentation.
  16. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. Interactions between large-scale variability and precipitation in Australia.
    PhD exit seminar, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, November 19, 2014. Oral presentation.
  17. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Disentangling the multiple sources of large-scale variability in Australian wintertime precipitation.
    The 7th GEWEX Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands July 14-17 2014. Poster presentation. Download the poster.
  18. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. Sensitivity of intraseasonal variability in an aquaplanet to convective moisture and cloud radiative effects.
    The Latsis Symposium in Zürich, Switzerland June 18-21 2014. Oral presentation.
  19. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. The impact of convective parameterisation on atmospheric variability in an aquaplant model.
    21st AMOS Conference, Hobart, Victoria, February 12-14 2014. Oral Presentation.

    20. 2013

  20. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. The impact of convective parameterisation on atmospheric variability in an aquaplanet model.
    CoECSS Annual Workshop in Lorne, Victoria, November 10-13 2013. Oral Presentation.
  21. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. Can an adapted Betts-Miller scheme Improve the Representation of Atmospheric variability in an Aqua-Planet?
    MPI-M Hot Seminar Hamburg, Germany, 06 August 2013. Oral Presentation.
  22. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. Can an Adapted Betts-Miller Scheme Improve the Representation of Atmospheric Variability?
    19th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and the 17th Conference on Middle Atmosphere, Newport, RI, USA, June 16 - 21, 2013. Poster presentation. Read more or download the poster.
  23. Maher P., S. Sherwood, J. Kidston, and C. Jakob. Can an Adapted Betts-Miller Scheme Improve the Representation of Atmospheric Variability?
    20th AMOS Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 February 2013. Oral presentation.

    24. 2012

  24. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. Can an Adapted Betts-Miller Scheme Improve the Representation of Atmospheric Variability? CoECSS Annual Workshop, Hobart, 25 - 27 September 2012. Poster presentation.
  25. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. A new look at the interconnections between precipitation drivers over Australia. 19th National Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) Conference, Sydney Australia, 31 January - 3 February 2012. Oral presentation.

    26. 2011

  26. Maher P. and S. Sherwood. A new look at interconnections between regional rainfall drivers.
    AMOS NSW Centre Postgraduate Student Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 17 June 2011. Oral Presentation.

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