Conrad Wasko

Biographic Data

ID6312003
NAMEConrad Wasko
GIVEN NAMESConrad
FAMILY NAMEWasko
SIGNATUREWASKO C
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0002-9166-8289
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Atmospheric rivers increase global flood risk

    Open AccessSucheta Pradhan, Conrad Wasko et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow corridors of concentrated moisture known to distribute moisture globally and influence extreme precipitation events. However, the contribution of ARs to rare flood risk, the resultant hazard from extreme precipitation events, remains unquantified. Here, using 2686 largely regulation-free catchments across the world, we find that in some regions ARs are linked to over 70% of the largest precipitation and streamf…

  • Rethinking urban storm water management through resilience – The case for using green infrastructure in our warming world

    Open AccessSuresh Hettiarachchi, Conrad Wasko et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 1References: 43

  • Decreases in relative humidity across Australia

    Open AccessEleanor Denson, Conrad Wasko et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    How relative humidity is changing is important for our understanding of future changes in precipitation and evaporation. For example, decreases in relative humidity have the potential to increase evaporation and evapotranspiration increasing water scarcity. Since projected precipitation changes are highly uncertain, there is significant research relating precipitation changes to more certain local temperature increases, but such research often as…

  • Impact of atmospheric circulation on the rainfall-temperature relationship in Australia

    Open AccessBhavik Magan, Seokhyeon Kim et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Anthropogenic climate change is leading to the intensification of extreme rainfall due to an increase in atmospheric water holding capacity at higher temperatures as governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron (C-C) relationship. However, the rainfall-temperature sensitivity (termed scaling) often deviates from the C-C relationship. This manuscript uses classifications prescribed by regional-scale atmospheric circulation patterns to investigate whether de…

  • The relationship of atmospheric air temperature and dew point temperature to extreme rainfall

    Open AccessAndrew Bui, Fiona Johnson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    To understand the expected changes of extreme rainfalls due to climate change, the sensitivity of rainfall to surface temperature is often calculated. However, as surface temperatures may not be a good indicator of atmospheric moisture, an alternative is to use atmospheric temperatures, but the use of atmospheric temperatures lacks precedent. Using radiosonde atmospheric temperature data at a range of geopotential heights from 34 weather stations…

  • Relationship of extreme precipitation, dry-bulb temperature, and dew point temperature across Australia

    Open AccessConrad Wasko, William Tang Lu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Precipitation extremes are expected to intensify due to an increased moisture holding capacity in the atmosphere with higher temperatures; according to the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) relation this increase is approximately 7% for every degree increase in temperature. Contrary to expectation, the relationship between precipitation extremes and surface temperature often differs from 7%/ C. Here, we explore this relationship further by estimating the s…