Lisa Alexander (earth scientist)

Alexander was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1995 and Master of Science, in 1998 in the field of Applied Mathematics at Queens University in Northern Ireland.{{cn|date=July 2024}} Alexander worked as a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in the Climate Variability Group from 1998 to 2006.{{cn|date=July 2024}} The final year she was seconded to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Alexander was awarded her PhD from Monash University, (2009),{{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=Lisa Victoria |date=2009 |title=Extreme measures : mechanisms driving changes in climate extremes in Australia |url=https://monash.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=monfigsharearticle/4546144&vid=MONUI&search_scope=au_everything&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=Monash University Library}} where she won the Mollie Holman medal for her doctoral thesis. From 2009, she was employed at UNSW, within the Climate Change Research Centre.{{Cite web |title=Professor Lisa Alexander |url=https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-lisa-alexander |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=research.unsw.edu.au |language=en}}

In 2013 she was awarded the Dorothy Hill Medal for her research on how future changes in the intensity and frequency of heat waves will strongly be influenced by the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions.{{Cite web |title=2013 Academy awards for scientific excellence announced {{!}} Australian Academy of Science |url=https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/2013-academy-awards-scientific-excellence-announced |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=www.science.org.au |language=en}} She has also collaborated with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, another Australian scientist studying heat waves.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

Alexander's has worked with the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) on topics including the assessment and production of international datasets of rainfall and temperature and climate extremes. She has also worked with the Expert Team on Climate Information for Decisionmaking (ET-CID).

Alexander led development of Climpact software, which is used to analyse and compute climate extremes.{{Cite web |title=UNSW climate data expert awarded prestigious Copernicus Medal |url=https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/02/unsw-climate-data-expert-awarded-prestigious-copernicus-medal0 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=UNSW Sites |language=en}} The Climpact software is utilised by National Hydrological and Meteorological Services in addition to other climate researchers internationally. Alexander is a member of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program.

She is also a member of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group, and on the executive committee of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS).{{Cite web |title=Lisa Alexander {{!}} AIMES |url=https://aimesproject.org/lisa-alexander/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |language=en-US}}

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{{As of|2022}}, Alexander had over 170 journal articles, on a range of topics including climate extremes, temperature and precipitation.{{Cite web |title=Lisa V. Alexander's research works {{!}} UNSW Sydney, Kensington (UNSW) and other places |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Lisa-V-Alexander-2124173607 |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=ResearchGate |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Loop {{!}} Lisa Alexander |url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/798490/overview |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=loop.frontiersin.org}} She was an author of the IPCC assessments in both 2001 and 2007. She contributed to the 2012 Special Report on Extremes, and Alexander was also a Lead Author of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report. Some of her select publications, including her most highly cited research, include the following:

• {{Cite journal |last1=Alexander |first1=L. V. |last2=Zhang |first2=X. |last3=Peterson |first3=T. C. |last4=Caesar |first4=J. |last5=Gleason |first5=B. |last6=Klein Tank |first6=A. M. G. |last7=Haylock |first7=M. |last8=Collins |first8=D. |last9=Trewin |first9=B. |last10=Rahimzadeh |first10=F. |last11=Tagipour |first11=A. |date=2006 |title=Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |language=en |volume=111 |issue=D5 |pages=D05109 |doi=10.1029/2005JD006290 |bibcode=2006JGRD..111.5109A |s2cid=15806993 |issn=0148-0227|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.12110/paper_01480227_v111_n5_p_Alexander |hdl-access=free |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Perkins |first1=S. E. |last2=Alexander |first2=L. V. |date=2013-07-01 |title=On the Measurement of Heat Waves |journal=Journal of Climate |language=EN |volume=26 |issue=13 |pages=4500–4517 |doi=10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00383.1 |bibcode=2013JCli...26.4500P |s2cid=129438880 |issn=0894-8755|doi-access=free |ref=none}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Alexander |first1=Lisa V. |last2=Arblaster |first2=Julie M. |date=2009-03-15 |title=Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections |journal=International Journal of Climatology |language=en |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=417–435 |doi=10.1002/joc.1730|bibcode=2009IJCli..29..417A |s2cid=140170320 |doi-access=free |ref=none}}

Alexander has published seven articles in The Conversation,{{Cite web |last1=Salinger |first1=Jim |last2=Alexander |first2=Lisa |title=Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there's now more of both, for longer |url=http://theconversation.com/extreme-heat-and-rain-thousands-of-weather-stations-show-theres-now-more-of-both-for-longer-141869 |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=The Conversation |date=6 July 2020 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Conversation |date=5 September 2013 |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/lisa-alexander-103142}} as well as ScienceDaily.{{Cite web |title=As oceans warm, marine cold spells are disappearing: Cold spells can harm ecosystems, but they can also provide critical respite in warming oceans |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220317163403.htm |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=ScienceDaily |language=en}}

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