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Dr. Peter George Baines
Current/recent positions and distinctions:
Senior Fellow, Dept. of
Infrastructure Engineering,
Secretary, Royal Society of Victoria
2017-2020
Elected Fellow of Royal
Society of Victoria, 2021
Elected Fellow of the
Australian Fluid Mechanics Society, 2020
Other distinctions:
Past President,
International Commission for Dynamic Meteorology (ICDM) of the International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
Merle A.Tuve Senior Fellow, Carnegie Institute of Washington,
USA, Sept.-Oct 2012
Visiting
scientist, QUEST, Dept. of Earth Sciences, U.K., 2006-2009
Leverhulme Visiting
Professor,
Formerly Chief Research
Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research,
Elected Fellow of the
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 2004
AMOS Priestley Medallist, 1997
Fellow of the Royal
Meteorological Society.
Former Councillor
and Research Secretary, Royal Society of Victoria Inc.,
Former member of Committee
for the
Current address:
Department of
email: p.baines@unimelb.edu.au
Personal web site : http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/pbaines/
BOOK - TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN STRATIFIED FLOWS
Copies of
the paperback version are available from Cambridge University Press. For a
description of this book, a list of reviews and how to purchase a copy, click here.
CURRENT AND RECENT ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
1. CLIMATE DYNAMICS ON
THE DECADAL TIME SCALE
This work is
based on the examination of reanalysis and satellite-based rainfall data,
coupled with dynamical interpretations. Efforts have previously been focused on
the late 1960s climate shift that influenced (among many other places)
southwest Western Australia. Present efforts are directed toward the effects on
land-based rainfall of global dynamical factors that represent physical
processes; these include ENSO and the IOD and nine others.
2. TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS
IN STRATIFIED FLOWS
A second
edition of the above-mentioned book is due out in November 2021. Some recent
scientific results are described in references 145 and 146.
3-degree slope, Holmboe instability: click
here.
30-degree slope, double
outflow: click here.
3. VOLCANO DYNAMICS
These
include the dynamics of ash clouds from mega-volcanos including ash deposition,
the generation of atmospheric waves by volcanic eruptions. Recent results are
described in references 140, 142 , 147.
4.
ROSSBY WAVE HYDRAULICS
This
involves the effects of flow through a contraction of eastward flow on a
beta-plane on disturbances upstream (in an analogous manner to that in
density-stratified flows), with application to flow of the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current through the Drake Passage.
PAPERS IN PROGRESS:
BAINES, P.G. and DAY, R.W. 2021: Massed strandings
of whales and dolphins – effects of wind, waves and tides. Submitted.
SOME RECENT AND NOT-SO-RECENT PUBLICATIONS - PETER G.
BAINES
150. BAINES, P.G., 2021 : Topographic Effects in
Stratified Flows. 2nd Edition.
Cambridge University Press, 560 pp.
149. SILVER, Z.,
DIMITROVA, R., ZSEDROVITS, T., BAINES, P.G. and FEDNANDO, H.J.S. 2020.
Simulation of stably stratified flow in complex terrain: flow structures and
dividing streamline.
Environmental Fluid Mech.
20,
1281-1311.
148. BAINES P.G. and
SACKS, S. 2017: The Generation and Propagation of Atmospheric
Internal Waves Caused by VolcaniEruptions. Atmosphere 2017 8,
60; doi: 10.3390/atmos8030060, 24 pp.
147. BAINES, P.G. and HUGHES, R.L. 2016: Comments
on “The Interaction of an Eastward-Flowing Current and an Island: Sub- and
Supercritical Flow”, Journal of Physical Oceanography 46,
2263-2265.
146. BAINES, P.G. and JOHNSON,
E.R. 2016: Nonlinear topographic effects in two-layer
flows. Front. Earth Sci. 4:9. doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00009.
145. BAINES, P.G. 2016 : Internal hydraulic
jumps in two-layer systems. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 787,
1-15.
144. BAINES,
P.G. 2014: Plumes, entrainment and B.R. Morton. Aust.
Met. Oceanog. J., 64, 5-10.
143. BAINES, P.G. and HENLEY, B.
J. 2014: The effect of global dynamical factors on
the interannual variability of land-based
rainfall. In Dynamics and Predictability of large-scale
high-impact Weather and Climate Events, J. Li, R. Swinbank, H. Volkert and
R. Grotjahn editors, Cambridge University
Press.
142. BAINES, P.G. and SACKS,
S. 2014 Atmospheric internal waves generated by explosive
volcanic eruptions. In The Eruption of Soufriere Hills
Volcano, Montserrat from 2000 to 2010, G. Wadge and
B. Voight editors, , Geological Society, London,
Memoirs 2014,
v.39; p153-168.
141. BAINES P.G , 2013 Non-Rotating Gravity Currents, Reference
Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier. 11-Sep-13 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.04243-3.
140. BAINES, P.G. 2013: The dynamics of intrusions
into a density-stratified crossflow. Physics of Fluids 25,
076601, 1-30.
139. BAINES P.G. 2013: Stratified Hydraulics. Handbook
of Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Ed. H.J.S. Fernando), Vol.1, Chapter 22,
Taylor & Francis, pp.273-284.
138. PRENTICE, I.C., BAINES, P.G., SCHOLZE, M. and WOOSTER, M.J. 2012
Fundamentals of climate change science. Chapter 2 of Understanding
the Earth System – Global Change Science for Application. S.E.
Cornell, I.C. Prentice, J.I House and C.J. Downy editors, Cambridge University
Press, 267 pp.
137. BAINES, P.G. 2011: Patterns of decadal climate variability and
their impact on Australian rainfall. Greenhouse 2011 – the
Science of Climate Change, Cairns, April 2011.
136. BAINES, P.G. 2011: Patterns of decadal climate
variability and their impact on global rainfall. Earth System
Science 2010: Global Change, Climate and People, Edinburgh; Procedia Environmental Sciences 6, 70-87, S.
Cornell, C. Downy and M. Rounsevell eds..
135. BAINES, P.G.2009: A Model
for the Structure of the Antarctic Slope Front. Deep-Sea Research II,
56, 859-873.
134. BAINES, P.G.2008:
Mixing in downslope flows in the ocean - plumes versus gravity currents. Atmosphere-Ocean , 46(4),
405-419, doi:10.3137/AO925.2008 pdf
133. BAINES, P.G. JONES,
M.J. and SPARKS S.J. 2008: The variation of large-magnitude volcanic ash cloud
formation with source latitude. J. Geophys. Res..,
113, D21204,
doi:10.1029/2007JD009568.
132. BAINES, P.G. 2008: Classics
in Physical Geography revisited. Lorenz, E.N. 1963: Deterministic Non-periodic
Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 20, 130-141. Prog.
Physical Geog. 32(4), 475-480.
131. PARKER, D., C.
FOLLAND, A. SCAIFE, J. KNIGHT, A. COLMAN, P.G. BAINES and B. DONG, 2007:
Decadal to multidecadal variability and the climate change background. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D18115,
doi:10.1029/2007JD008411.
130. BAINES, P.G. 2007
Internal tide generation by seamounts. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 54 (9),
p.1486-1508, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2007.05.009. pdf
129. BAINES, P.G. and C.K.
FOLLAND, 2007 Evidence for a Rapid Global Climate Shift across the Late 1960s, J.
Climate, 20, 2721-2744, doi:10.1175/JCL14177.1. pdf
The significance of this
paper, with others, is discussed by Richard A. Kerr in Science, 10th
August 2007, 317, 746-7: Humans and Nature Duel Over the Next Decade's
Climate.
126. BAINES, P.G. 2006: The
zonal structure of the Hadley circulation. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 23,
869-883. pdf
125. BAINES, P.G. 2006:
Coastal and Regional Currents of
124. BAINES, P.G. 2006: The
late 1960s climate shift and its influence on the Southern Hemisphere. 8th
International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Foz do Iguacu.
123. BAINES, P. G., and R.
S. J. SPARKS 2005, Dynamics of giant volcanic ash clouds from supervolcanic eruptions, Geophys
Res. Lett., 32, L24808, doi:10.1029/2005GL024597. pdf
121. BAINES, P.G. 2005 :
Mixing regimes for the flow of dense fluid down slopes into stratified
environments. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 538, 245-267. pdf
120. BAINES, P.G. 2005 :
Long-term variations in winter rainfall of southwest
119. BAINES, P.G., BOYER,
D.L. and XIE, B. 2005 : Laboratory simulations of coastally trapped waves with
rotation, topography and stratification. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans,
39, 153-173. pdf
118. SMIRNOV, S.A, BAINES,
P.G., BOYER, D.L., SRDIC-MITROVIC, A.N., and VOROPAYEV, S.I. 2005 : Long-time
evolution of linearly stratified spin-up flows in axi-symmetric
geometries. Physics of Fluids, 17, 016601, 13 pp. pdf
117. BAINES, P.G. and
MURRAY, D.L. 2003 : Airflow over
116. BAINES, P.G. and
WHITEHEAD, J.A. 2003 : On multiple states in single-layer flows. Phys.
Fluids, 15, 298-307. pdf
114. BAINES, P.G. 2002 :
Two-dimensional plumes in stratified environments. J. Fluid Mech., 471,
315-337. pdf
110. BAINES, P.G. 2001 :
Mixing in flows down gentle slopes into stratified environments. J. Fluid
Mech., 443, 237-270. pdf
109. CAI, W. and BAINES,
P.G. 2001 : Forcing of the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave by El Niño – Southern
Oscillation teleconnections. J. Geophys. Res.,
106, 9019-9038. pdf
108. PRATA, A.J., BAINES,
P.G. and TILDESLEY, P.C. 2001 : Satellite observations of concentric ring
clouds west of
106. BAINES, P.G. 2001 :
Downslope flows into rotating and stratified environments. In: Particulate
gravity currents, B. C. Kneller, W. D. McCaffrey, and J. Peakall (editors), Special Publication of the International
Association of Sedimentologists 31, Oxford: Blackwell
Science, 113-120.
103. BAINES, P.G. and
MILES, J.W. 2000 : On topographic coupling of surface and internal tides. Deep-Sea
Res., 47, 2395-2403.
101. LANE-SERFF, G.F. and
BAINES, P.G. 2000 : Eddy formation by overflows in stratified water. J.
Phys. Oceanog., 30, 327-337.
98. CAI, W., BAINES, P.G.
and GORDON, H.B. 1999 : Southern mid-to-high latitude variability, a zonal
wave-number three pattern, and the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave in the CSIRO
coupled model. J. Climate, 12, 3087-3104.
92. BAINES, P.G. 1998 :
Stratified flow past complex terrain, and the parametrisation
of sub-grid-scale orographic effects. In Proceedings of ECMWF Workshop on
Orography, 10-12 Nov. 1997, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts, Reading, U.K., 51-66.
91. LANE-SERFF, G.F. &
BAINES, P.G. 1998 : Eddy formation by dense flows on slopes in a rotating
fluid. J.Fluid Mech., 363,
229-252. pdf
89. BAINES, P.G. and
CONDIE, S. 1998 : Observations and modelling of Antarctic downslope flows: a
review. Ocean, Ice and Atmosphere: Interactions at the Antarctic Continental
Margin, AGU Antarctic Research Series Vol. 75, S.S. Jacobs & R.
Weiss editors, 29-49. pdf
87. BAINES, P.G., 1998 : Topographic
Effects in Stratified Flows. Cambridge University Press, 482 pp (updated
paperback edition).
86. BAINES, P.G. and McINNES, K. 1997 : The Southerly Buster. In Windows on
Meteorology – An Australian Perspective, E.K. Webb, ed., CSIRO
85. BAINES, P.G. 1997 :
Some oceanographic inferences from coarse-resolution ocean and climate models. International
WOCE Newsletter No. 26, 3-5.
83. BAINES, P.G. 1997: A
fractal world of cloistered waves. Nature 388, 518-9. pdf
82. CAI, W. and BAINES,
P.G. 1996 : Interactions between thermohaline and wind-driven circulations and
their relevance to the dynamics of the Antarctic circumpolar current in a
coarse resolution global OGCM. J. Geophys. Res.
101, 14,073-14,093. pdf
81. BAINES, P.G. and
HUGHES, R.L. 1996 : Western boundary current separation — inferences from a
laboratory experiment. J. Phys. Oceanog. 26,
2576-2588
80. BAINES, P.G., MAJUMDAR,
S. and MITSUDERA, H., 1996 : The mechanics of the Tollmien-Schlichting
wave. J. Fluid Mech. 312, 107-124. pdf
78. BAINES, P.G. and
MURRAY, D. 1995 : Topographic influence on the pattern of flow through
77. BAINES, P.G., 1995 : Topographic
Effects in Stratified Flows.
76. BAINES, P.G. and
MITSUDERA, H., 1994 : On the mechanism of shear-flow instabilities. J. Fluid
Mech. 276, 327-342. pdf
75. BAINES, P.G. and
MURRAY, D., 1994 : Modelling of the air flow over
71. BAINES, P.G. and SMITH,
R.B., 1993 : Upstream stagnation points in stratified flow past obstacles. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 18, 105-113. pdf
68. BAINES, P.G., HUBBERT, G.D.,
and POWER, S., 1991 : Fluid transport through
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