Person

Callaghan, Jeff (1943? - )

Born
1943?
Occupation
Climate scientist and Meteorologist

Summary

Jeff Callaghan is a meteorologist whose expertise in in extreme weather forecasting. He joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology in Queensland in 1965, retiring in 2008 as Head of the Severe Weather Section. For the next eight years he was a consultant conducting research on tropical cyclones and other severe weather, including thunderstorms, coastal damage and extreme flooding events. In 2016 Callaghan was awarded the Gibbs medal from the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for his significant long-term contributions to operational forecasting services. He is associated with the Centre for Coastal Management at Griffith University.

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Chronology

1965 - 1995
Career position - Meteorologist, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland
1981
Education - BAppSc, University of Central Queensland
1982
Education - Diploma of Meteorology, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
1995 - 2008
Career position - Head, Severe Weather Section, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland
1997
Award - Regional Director's Outstanding Service Award for severe weather forecasting, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland
2007
Award - Regional Director's Outstanding Service Award for tropical cyclone forecasting and research, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland
2008
Award - Christopher Taylor Award, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2008
Life event - Retired
2008 - 2015
Career position - Consultant on weather events
2017
Award - Gibbs Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

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Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'AMOS award winners 2016: Gibbs Medal Jeff Callaghan', Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 30 (1) (2017), 8. Details
  • Callaghan, J., 'A climatology of heavy rain and major flood events in Victoria 1876 - 2019 and the effect of the 1976 climate shift', Journal of geographical research, 4 (3) (2021), 12-33. https://doi.org/10.30564/jgr.v4i3.3204. Details
  • Callaghan, J., 'Extraordinary sequences of severe weather events in the late nineteenth century', Journal of southern hemisphere earth systems science, 70 (1) (2022), 252-79. https://doi.org/10.1071/ES19041. Details
  • Callaghan, J.; and Power, S. B., 'Variability and decline in the number of severe tropical cyclones making landfall over eastern Australia since the late nineteenth century', Climate dynamics, 37 (3/4) (2011), 647-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00382-010-0883-2. Details
  • Callaghan, J.; and Power, S. B., 'Major coastal flooding in southeastern Australia 1860 - 2012, associated deaths and weather systems', Australian meteorological and oceanographic journal, 64 (3) (2014), 183-213. https://doi.org/10.22944/2.6403.002. Details
  • Callaghan, Jeff, 'A comparison of weather systems in 1870 and 1956 leading to extreme floods in the Murray Darling Basin', Journal of southern hemisphere earth system science, 69 (1) (2020), 84-115. https://doi.org/10.1071/ES19003. Details
  • Power, S. B.; and Callaghan, J., 'Variability in severe coastal flooding in south-eastern Australia since the mid-nineteenth century, associated storms and death tolls', Journal of applied meteorology and climatology, 55 (2015), 1139-49. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0146.1. Details
  • Power, S. B.; and Callaghan, J., 'The frequency of major flooding in coastal southeast Australia has significantly increased since the late 19th century', Journal of southern hemisphere earth systems science, 66 (1) (2016), 2-11. https://doi.org/10.22499/3.6601.002. Details

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