Dr. Milton Speer

First, as an operational meteorologist with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Dr Milton Speer developed experience in extremes of weather and climate and followed that on with research that spanned and linked the techniques of numerical weather prediction and traditional synoptic meteorology to provide new insights, for example, into severe storms including flash floods, hailstorms, tornadoes, east coast lows and southerly busters. Over the last 30 years, his research has expanded into the extremes relating to climate change and ecosystem impacts. This research is wide ranging, from meteorological aspects of dust storms to heavy rainfall, floods and attribution of climate drivers including La Nina/El Nino, southern annular mode (SAM), inter-decadal Pacific oscillation (IPO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Journal and conference publications number over 200. The list of most recent peer-reviewed journal articles is available at:- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milton-Speer