Expertise

Climate change and climate variability
Atmospheric science
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Stratospheric ozone depletion

Background

Chair of Atmospheric Science, School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of Melbourne
Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Former board member, Federal Government Climate Change Authority
Fellow, American Meteorological Society
Fellow, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
ARC Federation Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne 2007-2012
Lead Author and Review Editor, Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007
Coordinating Lead Author, Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001
Chair, Victorian Premier’s Climate Change Reference Group 2008-09
Member, WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modeling 2005-2010
Williams Chair and Professor of Meteorology, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2003-2007
Recipient, Norbert Gerbier – MUMM Prize, 1998, from the World Meteorological Organization.
Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash University, 1995-2000

Publications and Speeches

David Karoly – Environmental Science at Melbourne

The blame for rain is mainly done in vain, 2013

Hottest 12-month period confirmed – so what role did humans play?, 2013

The human role in our ‘angry’ hot summer, 2013

Uncertainty no excuse for procrastinating on climate change, 2013

Biased newspaper reporting on the carbon pricing mechanism, 2013

The Antarctic ozone hole and climate change: an anniversary worth celebrating, 2012

Talking about geo-engineering may prevent us needing it, 2011

Bushfires and extreme heat in south-east Australia, 2009

The human hand in climate change, 2008

The Climate Series: David Karoly on the latest climate science (p1), 2009

The Climate Series: David Karoly on the latest climate science (p2), 2009