Dr Frank Drost (Postdoc) Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (CEDL) School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
Phone:		(+61) - 2 - 93854628
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Email:		f.drost@unsw.edu.au

Interests
Southern Hemisphere climate:	Large-scale circulation Variability of the large scale circulation Climate change
New Zealand's climate:	Regional climate model for New Zealand Paleoclimate of New Zealand
Australia's climate:	Climate change Variability
Paleoclimate:
Climate Dynamics:
Climate Modelling:	Unified Model New Zealand's Regional Climate Model

Peer reviewed Papers

1 Drost, F., England, M. (accepted January 2008), Twentieth century trends in moisture advection over Australia, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.

2 Drost, F., England, M. (submitted 2007), Trends and variability of the planetary waves at 500hPa in the Southern Hemisphere, Journal of Climate.

3 Drost, F., J. A. Renwick, B. Bhaskaran, H. Oliver, and J. McGregor, 2007: A simulation of New Zealand's climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quatenary Science Reviews, 26, 2505-2525.

4 Drost F., J. Renwick, B. Bhaskaran, H. Oliver, J. McGregor (2007), Features of the zonal mean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Maximum, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D02101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006811.

5 B.V. Alloway, D.J. Lowe, D.J.A. Barrell, R.M. Newnham, P.C. Almond, P.C. Augustinus, N.A.N. Bertler, L. Carter, N.J. Litchfield, M.S. McGlone, J. Shulmeister, M.J. Vandergoes, P.W. Williams & NZ-INTIMATE members, 2007: Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30 000 years (NZ-INTIMATE project)., Journal of Quaternary Science 22(1): 9-35 DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1079

6 Drost F., J. Renwick, B. Bhaskaran, H. Oliver, J. McGregor (2007), Variability of the atmospheric circulation in the southern hemisphere during the last glacial maximum, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006970.

7 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H., McGregor, J., (2006), Simulation of New Zealand's climate using a high-resolution nested regional climate model, International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1461

Reports

8 Drost, F., Mullan, A. B., Bhaskaran, B., Renwick, J. A. (May 2005), Report on the effect of the size of the regional domain in New Zealand's regional climate model on the modelled climatology, Internal Report for NIWA, 32 pages.

9 Drost, F. (September 2002), Counting our climate, New Zealand Science Review.

Conference Papers

10 Drost, F., Mullan, B., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B. (November 2005), Does Size Matter? The effect of the domain size in regional climate modelling on the simulated climatology. Meteorology Society of New Zealand conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

11 Drost, F. (July 2005), An investigation into New Zealands climate during the Last Glacial Maximum: A climate modelling approach. in Alloway BV, Shulmeister J. (editors). Proceedings of the 2005 NZ-INTIMATE meeting, GNS Rafter Laboratory, Wellington: July 4-5 2005. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences science report 2005/18: p.23.

12 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (August 2004), HadAM3H in a pre-industrial setting, AGU Western Pacific Conference, Hawaii.

13 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (August 2004), A Regional Climate Model for New Zealand, AGU Western Pacific Conference, Hawaii.

14 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (November 2003), HadAM3H: A New High Resolution Global Climate Model. Meteorology Society of New Zealand conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

15 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (November 2003), HadRM3H: A Regional Climate Model for New Zealand. Meteorology Society of New Zealand conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

16 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (August 2003), HadAM3H: A New High Resolution Global Climate Model. New Zealand Geophysical Society conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

17 Drost, F., Renwick, J. (March 2003), A Regional Climate Model for New Zealand, Seventh International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Wellington, New Zealand.

18 Drost, F, (November 2002), Towards reconstructing New Zealands climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Meteorology Society of New Zealand conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

19 Drost, F, (November 2002), Features of global climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Meteorology Society of New Zealand conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

20 Drost, F., Renwick, J., Bhaskaran, B., Oliver, H. (July 2002), A Regional Climate Model for New Zealand, AGU Western Pacific Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

21 McConchie, J.A., Hawke, R.M., Drost, F., Hennrich, K., and Crozier, M.J. (2000), Real-Time Monitoring of Soil Moisture Conditions for Slope Instability Investigations, New Zealand Geographical Society 20th Conference Proceedings, 212-218.

Thesis

Drost, F., 2006. An Investigation into New Zealand's Climate during the Last Glacial Maximum: A Climate Modelling Approach (thesis), Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.