David Arfon Jones is a senior climatologist and
current Head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian
Bureau of
Meteorology.
He initially studied mathematics and chemistry at university but
changed to atmospheric studies.
Jones obtained his PhD in Earth Science from the University of
Melbourne
, Australia in 1995. He subsequently
completed the
postgraduate
diploma in
weather
forecasting in 1995 at the Bureau of Meteorology. In 1995 Jones
commenced work in the Climate Analysis Section of the Australian
National Climate Centre, focusing on the automation of climate
monitoring using objective analysis techniques. Subsequently he
moved to the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in 1997
undertaking research on the variability and change of Australia's
climate.
Jones became the supervisor of Climate Analysis at the Bureau of
Meteorology in 2002. In this role he has promoted the automation of
analysis, monitoring and forecasting products and the introduction
of a range of innovative climate monitoring activities, with a
focus on encouraging the interpretation of
climate variability in the context of a
rapidly changing climate.
Owing to the continued misrepresentation of climate change in the
Australian media Jones has written a number of public pieces
correcting or explaining climate change including in
The Age, and in articles for the
Australian Science Media
Centre.
In 2006 Jones was awarded the
National Australia Day
Council Achievement Medallion.
References
- Our hot, dry future
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