Dr. Paul J. Durack
Postdoctoral Researcher

Tel: +1 (925) 422-5208
Fax: +1 (925) 422-7675
Email: pauldurack at llnl dot gov

Publications:

Durack, Paul J., Susan E. Wijffels and Richard J. Matear (2012) Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000. Science, 336 (6080), pp 455-458. DOI: 10.1126/science.1212222

Durack, Paul J., Susan E. Wijffels and Nathaniel L. Bindoff (2011) [Global Oceans] Ocean Salinity: A Water Cycle Diagnostic? [In "State of the Climate 2010"], Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92 (6), pp S91-S93. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477-92.6.S1

Durack, Paul J., Susan E. Wijffels (2010) Fifty-Year Trends in Global Ocean Salinities and Their Relationship to Broad-Scale Warming, Journal of Climate, 23 (16), pp 4342-4362. DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3377.1

Co-authored publications:

Pierce, David W., Peter J. Gleckler, Tim P. Barnett, Benjamin D. Santer, Paul J. Durack (2012) The fingerprint of human-induced changes in the ocean's salinity and temperature fields, Geophysical Research Letters, GL053389. DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053389

Sen Gupta, Alex, Les C. Muir, Jaclyn N. Brown, Steven J. Phipps, Paul J. Durack, Didier Monselesan, Susan E. Wijffels (2012) Climate Drift in the CMIP3 Models, Journal of Climate, 25 (13), pp 4621-4640. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00312.1

Austin, Jenet, Lu Zhang, Roger N. Jones, Paul J. Durack, Warrick Dawes and Peter Hairsine (2010) Climate change impact on water and salt balances: an assessment of the impact of climate change on catchment salt and water balances in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, Climatic Change, 100 (3-4), pp 607-631. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9714-z

Sheehan, Peter, Roger N. Jones, Ainsley Jolley, Benjamin L. Preston, Matthew Clarke, Paul J. Durack, Sardar M.N. Islam, Penny H. Whetton (2008) Climate change and the new world economy: Implications for the nature and timing of policy responses, Global Environmental Change, 18 (3), pp 380-396. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.04.008

Cai, Wenju, Mark Collier, Paul Durack, Hal Gordon, Anthony Hirst, Siobhan O'Farrell and Penny Whetton (2003) The Response of Climate Variability and Mean State to Climate Change: preliminary results from the CSIRO Mark 3 coupled model, CLIVAR Exchanges, 8 (4), pp 8-11. Accessible online

Reports:

Whetton, P.H., K.L. McInnes, R.N. Jones, K.J. Hennessy, R. Suppiah, C.M. Page, J.M. Bathols and P.J. Durack (2005) Australian climate change projections for impact assessment and policy application: a review. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper; 001 CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Melbourne, 34 pp. Accessible online

Cai, Wenju, Steve Crimp, Roger Jones, Kathy McInnes, Paul Durack, Bob Cechet, Janice Bathols and Scott Wilkinson (2005) Climate change in Queensland under enhanced greenhouse conditions. Report, 2004-2005, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale. 82 pp. Accessible online

Macadam, I., K.L. McInnes, P.J. Durack and R.N Jones (2005) Climate change projections for SEDSIM modelling over North-East Australia. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Melbourne, 10 pp. [restricted access]

Jones, Roger N. and Paul J. Durack (2005) Estimating the Impacts of Climate Change on Victoria's Runoff using a Hydrological Sensitivity Model. CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale. 50 pp. Accessible online

Jones, R.N. and P.J. Durack (2005) Melbourne Water climate change study technical report. CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale. 76 pp. Accessible online

Theses:

Durack, Paul J. (2011) Ocean Salinity: A Climate Change Diagnostic? PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania (Tasmania, Australia), 163 pp. Accessible online

Durack, Paul J. (2002) The Effect of Predicted Climate Change on Western Australian Regional Oceanography. Hons Thesis, Murdoch University (Western Australia), 164 pp. Accessible online