Marcus Thatcher

Biographic Data

ID6378993
NAMEMarcus Thatcher
GIVEN NAMESMarcus
FAMILY NAMEThatcher
SIGNATURETHATCHER M
AFFILIATIONSCSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
ORCID0000-0003-4139-5515
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Machine learning based parameter sensitivity of regional climate models—a case study of the WRF model for heat extremes over Southeast Australia

    Open AccessP Jyoteeshkumar Reddy, Sandeep Chinta et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Heatwaves and bushfires cause substantial impacts on society and ecosystems across the globe. Accurate information of heat extremes is needed to support the development of actionable mitigation and adaptation strategies. Regional climate models are commonly used to better understand the dynamics of these events. These models have very large input parameter sets, and the parameters within the physics schemes substantially influence the model’s per…

  • Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold

    Open AccessRalph Trancoso, Jozef Syktus et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Deforestation exacerbates climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, but other climatic alterations linked to the local biophysical changes from deforestation remain poorly understood. Here, we assess the impact of tropical deforestation on fire weather risk—defined as the climate conditions conducive to wildfires—using high-resolution convection-permitting climate simulations. We consider two land cover scenarios for the island of Borneo: …

  • Effectiveness of urban surface characteristics as mitigation strategies for the excessive summer heat in cities

    Open AccessPrabhasri Herath, Marcus Thatcher et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2021

  • Compounding impact of deforestation on Borneo’s climate during El Niño events

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, Jozef Syktus et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Both deforestation and El Niño events influence Borneo's climate, but their interaction is not well understood. Borneo's native forest cover decreased by 37.1% between 1980 and 2015 with large areas being replaced by oil palm and a mosaic of plantations and regrowth vegetation. The island is also affected by El Niño events, resulting in severe droughts and fires. Here, we used a high-resolution climate model to simulate and evaluate how deforesta…

  • Climate change impact on energy demand in building-urban-atmosphere simulations through the 21st century

    Open AccessMathew Lipson, Marcus Thatcher et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Social, technological and climatic changes will transform the way energy is consumed over the 21st century, with important implications for energy networks and greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we develop a method to efficiently explore climate-energy interactions under various scenarios of climate, urban infrastructure and technological change. We couple the Urban Climate and Energy Model with the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model as a full-height…

  • The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures

    Open AccessSarah Chapman, James E M Watson et al.ARTICLELandscape Ecology2017

  • Projections of rapidly rising surface temperatures over Africa under low mitigation

    Open AccessFrancois Engelbrecht, Jimmy Adegoke et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    An analysis of observed trends in African annual-average near-surface temperatures over the last five \ndecades reveals drastic increases, particularly over parts of the subtropics and central tropical Africa. \nOver these regions, temperatures have been rising at more than twice the global rate of temperature \nincrease. An ensemble of high-resolution downscalings, obtained using a single regional climate \nmodel forced with the sea-surface temp…