Blair Trewin
Blair Trewin is a senior climatologist with the National Climate Centre, a section of the Bureau of Meteorology, where he has worked since 1998.
His main areas of research are long-term trends in climate extremes, and the development of data sets suitable for studying them. He was responsible for developing the long-term data set used for monitoring daily temperatures in Australia, and more recently has been working on improving Australia’s long-term records of tropical cyclones.
He is a member of the international Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices, which is co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization. He is also editor of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal.
Articles by Blair Trewin
Record heat and climate change: what’s going on?
August 2009 was Australia’s warmest on record. Temperatures averaged over the country were 2.47C above the long-term average, nearly a…... Read more
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