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Past President
Dr James Renwick
NIWA
Principal Scientist, Climate Variability & Change
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NIWA Wellington, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, WELLINGTON
+64-4-386-0343

I have around 30 years' experience in weather and climate research, starting as a forecaster with the Met. Service. I was involved in writing the IPCC 4th Assessment Report, and will be participating in writing the 5th Assessment Report during 2010-2013.

Large-scale climate variability, climate dynamics, climate change research. I enjoy statistical data analysis and am especially keen on matrix algebra and analysis of large multivariate data sets. I am interested in weather and climate forecasting on all time scales, from days to centuries.

Publications by James Renwick

Kidston, J, Frierson DMW, Renwick JA. 2010. On the dynamical mechanism of mid-latitude jet stream variability and annular modes. Journal of Climate. : in press
McGlone, MS, Turney CSM, Wilmshurst JM, Renwick J, Pahnke K. 2010. Divergent Holocene land and sea temperatures over the southern ocean. Nature Geoscience. : accepted
McKerchar, AI, Renwick JA, Schmidt J. 2010. Diminishing streamflows on the east coast of the South Island New Zealand and linkage to climate variability and change. New Zealand Journal of Hydrology. 49: 1-14
Renwick, JA, Mladenov P, Purdie J, McKerchar A, Jamieson D. 2010. The effects of climate variability and change upon renewable electricity in New Zealand. Climate Change Adaptation in New Zealand: Future scenarios and some sectoral perspectives. : 136
Zheng, X, Renwick J, Clark A. 2010. Simulation of multisite precipitation using an extended chain-dependent process. Water Resources Research. 46: W01504, doi:10.1029/2008WR007526
Ackerley, D, Renwick J A. 2010. The Southern Hemisphere semiannual oscillation and circulation variability during the Mid-Holocene. Climates of the Past. 6: 415-430, doi:10.5194/cp-6-415-2010
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