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Dr. Peter George Baines
Current positions:
Professorial fellow, Dept.
of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Visiting Scientist, QUEST,
Dept. of Earth Sciences, Bristol, UK.
Past President,
International Commission for Dynamic Meteorology (ICDM) of the International
Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS).
Editorial Board member, Dynamics
of Atmospheres and Oceans
Other
distinctions:
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 Civil and Environmental
fax: 61-3
8344 4616
email: p.baines@unimelb.edu.au
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 focussed on the
late 1960s climate shift that influenced (among many other places) southwest
Western
2. THE DYNAMICS AND
MIXING OF DOWNSLOPE FLOWS
The main
results of this work to date are described in references 110, 114 and 121.
Observations of dense downslope flows into stratified
environments show that mixing with the environment may occur in a variety of
different ways, depending on the Buoyancy number, the bottom slope, and the
bottom drag. Some characteristic phenomena observed in these experiments are: Holmboe waves , turbulent
plumes , and, under certain conditions, a most unusual double outflow double outflow . Some movie examples are
shown in the following short videos. These show dense fluid marked by fluorescine dye, flowing down a slope into a
salt-stratified environment. Some of these results are being incorporated into
a model of the Antarctic Slope Front.
3-degree slope, Holmboe instability: click
here.
30-degree slope, double
outflow: click here.
3. THE DYNAMICS OF ASH
CLOUDS FROM MEGA-VOLCANOES
PAPERS IN PROGRESS:
BAINES,P.G.
Patterns of decadal climate variability and their impact on recent global
rainfall.
BAINES, P.G.: Global
Rainfall and the Classification of ENSO. Submitted.
BAINES, P.G. and SACKS, S.:
Internal waves generated by volcanic eruptions.
SOME RECENT AND
NOT-SO-RECENT PUBLICATIONS - PETER G. BAINES
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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Last update: 25th
November 2009