Papers in refereed journals

Evans, J.P., (2009) 21st century climate change in the Middle East. Climatic Change, 92, 417-432, doi: 10.1007/s10584-008-9438-5.

Evans, J.P., 2008: Changes in Water Vapor Transport and the Production of Precipitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Result of Global Warming. J. Hydrometeor., 9, 1390–1401.

Evans, J.P. (accepted 2008) Global warming impact on the dominant precipitation processes in the Middle East. Theoretical and Applied Climatology.

Evans, J.P. And B.F. Zaitchik (2008) Modeling the large scale water balance impact of different irrigation systems. Water Resources Research, 44, W08448, doi:10.1029/2007WR006671.

Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans and R.B. Smith, (2007) Regional impact of an elevated heat source: The Zagros plateau of Iran. Journal of Climate, 20: 4133-4146.

Zaitchik, B.F.,J.P. Evans, R.A. Geerken and R.B. Smith, (2007) Climate and vegetation in the Middle East: inter-annual variability and drought feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 20: 3924-3941.

Smith, R. and J.P. Evans, (2007) Orographic precipitation and water vapor fractionation over the southern Andes. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8: 3-19.

Evans, J.P. and R. Geerken, (2006) Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage using a Fourier component based similarity measure. Remote Sensing of Environment, 105: 1-8.

Evans, J.P. and R. Smith, (2006) Water vapor transport and the production of precipitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7(6): 1295-1307.

Geerken, R., B. Zaitchik, and J.P. Evans, (2005) Classifying rangeland vegetation type and coverage from NDVI time-series using Fourier Filtered Cycle Similarity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(24): 5535-5554.

Evans, J.P., R.J. Oglesby, W.M. Lapenta, (2005) Time series analysis of regional climate model performance. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D04104, doi:10.1029/2004JD005046.

Zaitchik, B. F., J. P. Evans, and R. B. Smith, (2005) MODIS-derived boundary conditions for a mesoscale climate model: application to irrigated agriculture in the Euphrates Basin. Monthly Weather Review, 133: 1727-1743.

Evans, J.P., Smith, R.B. and Oglesby, R.J. (2004) Middle East climate simulation and dominant precipitation processes. International Journal of Climatology, 24: 1671-1694.

Bryan SE, Cook A, Evans J, Colls, P, Lawrence M, Wells M, Jell JS, Greig A, Leslie R (2004) Pumice rafting and faunal dispersion during 2001-2002 in the southwest Pacific: record of a dacitic submarine explosive eruption from Tonga. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227(1-2): 135-154.

Evans, J.P and Geerken, R. (2004) Discrimination between climate and human induced dryland degradation. Journal of Arid Environments, 57(4): 535-554.

Evans, J.P. (2003) Improving the characteristics of streamflow modeled by regional climate models. Journal of Hydrology, 284: 211-227.

Evans, J. and Schreider, S. (2002) Hydrological impacts of climate change on inflows to Perth, Australia. Climatic Change, 55: 361-393.

Evans, J.P. and Jakeman, A.J. (1998) Development of a simple, catchment-scale, rainfall-evapotranspiration-runoff model. Environmental Modelling and Software, 13: 385-394.

Chapters in books and papers in conference proceedings

Evans, J.P. (2008) Incorporating irrigation parameterizations into a regional climate model. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, USA, December 15-19.

Evans, J.P. (2008) Using Regional Climate Models and Lagrangian Back Trajectories to Estimate the Source Areas of Water Vapor. AGU Chapman conference on Atmospheric Water Vapor and its Role in Climate, Kailua-Kona, hawaii, USA, October 20-24.

Evans, J.P. (2008) Global warming caused changes in precipitation in the Fertile Crescent and its association with the Zagros Mountain barrier jet. European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18.

Evans, J.P. (2008) Regional climate modelling of the Middle East. Medclivar/GLOWA workshop on climate/hydrological modelling for the Eastern Mediterranean, Reading, UK, Mar 3-4.

Evans, J.P. (2007) Regional water vapor sources for the Euphrates-Tigris watershed. 24th general assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, Italy, July 2-13.

Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans and R.B. Smith (2007) Orographic drivers of precipitation in the Middle East. 24th general assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, Italy, Jul 2-13.

Evans, J.P. (2007) Global warming caused changes in precipitation in the Fertile Crescent and its relationship to changes in the Zagros Mountain generated barrier jet. 29th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, Chambery, France, Jun 4–8.

Evans, J.P. (2006) Impact of Global Warming on the Euphrates-Tigris Watershed. Climate change and the Middle East: Past, present and future, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 20–23.

Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans, R.A. Geerken and R.B. Smith (2006) Climate and vegetation in the Middle East: inter-annual variability and drought feedbacks. Climate change and the Middle East: Past, present and future, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 20–23.

Evans, J.P. and Smith, R.B. (2005) Impact of Global Warming on the Euphrates-Tigris Watershed. AGU fall meeting, San Fransisco, USA, Dec 5-9.

Evans, J.P. and Smith, R.B. (2005) Classifying precipitation events in the Fertile Crescent. American Meteorological Society general meeting, San Diego, USA, Jan 9-13.

Zaitchik, B.F., J.P. Evans, and R.B. Smith, (2005) Regional drivers of aridity in Southwest Asia and sensitivity to surface change. American Meteorological Society general meeting, San Diego, USA, Jan 9-13.

Evans, J.P., R.B. Smith, R. Oglesby (2003) Precipitation processes in the Middle East. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM03, D. Post(ed.) Jupiters Hotel and Casino, Townsville, Australia, July 14-17.

Smith, R.B., J.P. Evans, R. Oglesby (2003) Mountain Precipitation and hydrology in the Middle East. Interntional Conference Alpine Meteorology, Brig, Switzerland, May 19-23.

Evans, J.P., R.B. Smith, R. Oglesby (2002) Simulation of the Climate of South-West Asia with a Regional Model. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 6-10.

Evans, J.P., R. Oglesby, W. Lapenta (2002) Regional climate model performance analysis and comparison for the FIFE region. Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference GCIP/GAP, New Orleans, USA, May 13-17.

Evans, J.P., R. Oglesby, K. Maasch, R. Smith (2002) Investigation of Middle Eastern climate using a regional climate model. 13th Symposium on global change and climate variations. AMS general meeting, Orlando, USA, January 13-17.

Evans, J.P. (2001) Prediction of streamflow by regional climate models. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM01, F. Ghassemi et al. (eds.) Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 10-13

Evans, J.P., R.B. Smith (2001) Modelling the climate of South West Asia. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM01, F. Ghassemi et al. (eds.) Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 10-13

Geerken, R., J.P. Evans, D. Celis, N. Batikha, Z. Masri, E. de Pauw, and M. Ilaiwi (2001) Identification of Degrading Dry-Lands in the Near East and Description of its Vegetation Cover from Multi-Sensoral Remote Sensing Data. Proceedings 2001 conference on Arid Regions Monitored by Satellites - from Observing to Modeling for Sustainable Management, Marrakech, Morocco, November 12-15, 2001.

Evans, J.P., Oglesby, R.J. and Jakeman, A.J. (1999) A new method improving the simulation of streamflow in climate models. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM99, L. Oxley et al. (eds.) Vol. 3. University of Waikato, New Zealand, December 6-9, 1999, pp. 611-616.

Zhang, L., Jakeman, A.J., and Evans, J.P. (1999) Rainfall-runoff Models for Upland Catchments in the Namoi Basin, Australia. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM99, L. Oxley et al. (eds.) University of Waikato, New Zealand, December 6-9, 1999.

Oglesby, R.J., Jakeman, A.J. and Evans, J.P. (1999) Assessing the role of climate in environmental modeling. Proceedings 1999 Conference on Mission Earth: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, A. Sydow and J.-Y. Yu (eds.) San Francisco, USA, January 17-20, 1999, Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 27-32.

Evans, J.P. and Jakeman, A.J. (1998) Development of a Simple, Catchment-Scale, Rainfall-Evapotranspiration-Runoff Model. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting. Boston, USA, May 26-29, 1998.

Jakeman, A.J., Green, T.R., Zhang, L., Beavis, S.G., Evans, J.P., Dietrich, C.R. and Barnes, B. (1998) Modelling catchment erosion, sediment and nutrient transport in large basins. In: Soil Erosion at Multiple Scales, F.W.T. Penning de Vries et al. (eds.), CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, pp. 343-355.

Jakeman, A.J., Evans, J.P. and Oglesby, R.J. (1998) Hydrology for climate and earth system models. Proceedings 1998 Conference on Mission Earth: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, A. Sydow and J.-Y. Yu (eds.) San Diego, January 11-14, 1998, Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. (viii)-(xiii).

Evans, J.P., and Jakeman, A.J. (1997) Development of a simple, catchment-scale, rainfall-evapotranspiration-runoff model. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM97, A.D. McDonald and M. McAleer (eds.), Vol. 1. University of Tasmania, December 8-11, 1997, pp. 222-227.

Beavis, S.G., Zhang, L., Evans, J.P., Jakeman, A.J. and Smith, D.I. (1997) Impacts and implications of farm dams on catchment hydrology: Methods and Application to Chaffey Catchment. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM97, A.D. McDonald and M. McAleer(eds.), Vol. 1. University of Tasmania, December 8-11, 1997, pp. 282-287 .

Jakeman, A.J., Saowapon, C., Jintrawet, A., Trisophon, K., Evans, J.P. and Wong, F. (1997) Biophysical component of an integrated water resources assessment project in the Upper Chao Phraya Headwater, Northern Thailand. Proceedings International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM97, A.D. McDonald and M. McAleer (eds.), Vol. 2. University of Tasmania, December 8-11, 1997, pp. 687-691.

Other reports

Evans, J.P. and Schrieder, S.Yu. (1999) Report on provision of services for rainfall/runoff modelling in Western Australia. Prepared for CSIRO Land and Water, August, 14 pp.

Evans, J.P., Jakeman, A.J., Zhang, L. and Schreider, S.Yu (1998) A dynamic water balance methodology for Australia. Report to Australian Academy of Science, June, 15 pp.

Evans, J.P., Jakeman, A.J. and Feehan, P. (1998) Identification of relationships between catchment characteristics and in-stream phosphorus. Report to Goulburn-Murray Water, May, 24 pp.