Matthew England is a physical oceanographer and climate scientist who was born in Sydney on 11 June 1966. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2005 he became a Professor at the University of New South Wales, and was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship that same year.

England explores global-scale ocean circulation and the influence it has on regional climate, large-scale physical oceanography, ocean modelling, and climate processes, with a focus on the Southern Hemisphere. Using ocean and coupled climate models in combination with observations, England studies what controls ocean currents and how these currents affect climate and climate variability on time-scales of seasons to centuries.

England is currently Co-Director with Professor Andrew Pitman of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. England is a former Fulbright Scholar and CSIRO Flagship Fellow. He currently serves on the CLIVAR International Working Group for Ocean Model Development, the board of the Australian Research Council's Earth System Science Network and is an Editor for Reviews of Geophysics.

England was an organiser and signatory of the 2007 Bali Declaration by Climate Scientists.

[edit] Selected Publications

England, M.H., 1992: On the formation of Antarctic Intermediate and Bottom Water in ocean general circulation models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 22, 918-926.

England, M.H., 1993: Representing the global-scale water masses in ocean general circulation models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 1523-1552.

England, M.H., J.S. Godfrey, M. Tomczak, and A.C. Hirst, 1993: The mechanism for Antarctic Intermediate Water renewal in a World Ocean model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 1553-1560.

England, M.H., 1995a: Using chlorofluorocarbons to assess ocean climate models. Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 3051-3054.

England, M.H., 1995b: The age of water and ventilation time-scales in a global ocean model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, 2756-2777.

England, M.H. and A.C. Hirst, 1997: Chlorofluorocarbon uptake in a World Ocean model; 2. Sensitivity to surface thermohaline forcing and subsurface mixing parameterisation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 15,709-15,731.

England, M.H. and S. Rahmstorf, 1999: Sensitivity of ventilation rates and radiocarbon uptake to subgrid-scale mixing in ocean models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 2802-2827.

England, M.H. and E. Maier-Reimer, 2001: Using chemical tracers in ocean models. Reviews of Geophysics, 39, 29-70.

Rintoul, S.R., and M.H. England, 2002: Ekman transport dominates air-sea fluxes in driving variability of Subantarctic Mode Water. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 1308-1321.

England, M.H., C.C. Ummenhofer and A. Santoso, 2006: Interannual rainfall extremes over southwest Western Australia linked to Indian Ocean climate variability. Journal of Climate, 19, 1948-1969.

External Links

• Matthew England's homepage
• Climate Change Research Centre homepage