Seth Westra

Research Interests

Applied Statistics Climate Change Processes Surfacewater Hydrology Water Resources Engineering

Prof Seth Westra

Professor

School of Civil Engineering and Construction

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Seth Westra is a professor of hydrology and climate risk, and director of the University of Adelaide Water Research Centre. He is a chartered engineer with research and consulting experience across both academia and industry. Seth has contributed to the fields of hydrology, water resource assessments and climate risk, and has published over 100 journal and conference papers on these topics.

Research Aims

The overarching aim of my research is to develop scientifically defensible solutions to a range of practical water resources problems. My recent research has centered on solving the following three problems:

  • Quantifying the impacts of climate change and variability on Australian and international water resources, including on floods and drought;
  • Developing flood estimation methods to handle complex multi-causal floods in urban, estuarine and rural catchments; and
  • Improving hydrological (rainfall-runoff) models to better understand the role of data errors and non-stationarity, and quantifying prediction uncertainty

Consulting and Contract Research

During certain times of the year I am available to work on small or large consulting and contract research projects.

Date Position Institution name
2019 - ongoing Professor University of Adelaide
2016 - 2018 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2011 - 2015 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2009 - 2011 Senior Research Associate University of New South Wales
2007 - 2008 Water Resources Engineer Sinclair Knight Merz
2002 - 2003 Graduate Engineer URS Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2018 Award SA Climate Leaders Awards – Winner Individual Category Premier’s Climate Change Council Australia -
2015 Award GN Alexander Medal Engineers Australia Australia -
2015 Award Minister’s Award for Excellence in Water Sustainability Water Industry Alliance - -
2014 Award Research Spotlight Award from American Geophysical Union (top 5% of papers in AGU) for Westra et al (2014) American Geophysical Union United States -
2014 Award Editors Highlight Award Water Resources Research - -
2013 Award Tall Poppy Award Australian Institute of Policy and Science Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2004 - 2007 University of New South Wales Australia PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
2003 - 2004 University of New South Wales Australia Master of Engineering Science (Water Resources)
1998 - 2002 University of New South Wales Australia Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Hons Class 1)

Year Citation
2025 Leigh, R., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., Knowling, M. J., Culley, S., Daniell, K. A., . . . Brettig, P. (2025). A framework for context-aware climate risk assessments. Journal of Hydrology, 662, 133871.
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2025 Turner, S., Hannaford, J., Barker, L. J., Suman, G., Killeen, A., Armitage, R., . . . Whitfield, P. H. (2025). Erratum: Author Correction: ROBIN: Reference observatory of basins for international hydrological climate change detection (Scientific data (2025) 12 1 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04907-y.). Scientific Data, 12(1), 1716.
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2025 Turner, S., Hannaford, J., Barker, L. J., Suman, G., Killeen, A., Armitage, R., . . . Whitfield, P. H. (2025). ROBIN: Reference observatory of basins for international hydrological climate change detection.. Scientific Data, 12(1), 654-1-654-13.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2024 McInerney, D., Thyer, M., Kavetski, D., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., Shanafield, M., . . . Leonard, M. (2024). Neglecting hydrological errors can severely impact predictions of water resource system performance. Journal of Hydrology, 634, 130853-1-130853-15.
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2024 Van Wettere, W. H. E. J., Culley, S., Swinbourne, A. M. F., Leu, S. T., Lee, S. J., Weaver, A. C., . . . Westra, S. (2024). Heat stress from current and predicted increases in temperature impairs lambing rates and birth weights in the Australian sheep flock. Nature Food, 5(3), 206-210.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6 Europe PMC4
2024 Wasko, C., Westra, S., Nathan, R., Pepler, A., Raupach, T. H., Dowdy, A., . . . Fowler, H. J. (2024). A systematic review of climate change science relevant to Australian design flood estimation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(5), 1251-1285.
DOI Scopus28 WoS20
2024 Thyer, M., Gupta, H., Westra, S., McInerney, D., Maier, H. R., Kavetski, D., . . . Tague, C. (2024). Virtual Hydrological Laboratories: Developing the Next Generation of Conceptual Models to Support Decision Making Under Change. Water Resources Research, 60(4), 1-17.
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2024 He, L., Jeanneau, A., Ramsey, S., Radford, D., Zecchin, A., Reinke, K., . . . Maier, H. R. (2024). Estimating Fuel Load for Wildfire Risk Assessment Using Earth Observation Data: A Case Study in Southwestern Australia. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 36, 18 pages.
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2024 Hodgkins, G. A., Renard, B., Whitfield, P. H., Laaha, G., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J., . . . Hanel, M. (2024). Climate Driven Trends in Historical Extreme Low Streamflows on Four Continents. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, 60(6), 25 pages.
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2024 Fowler, K. J. A., McMahon, T. A., Westra, S., Horne, A., Guillaume, J. H. A., Guo, D., . . . John, A. (2024). Climate stress testing for water systems: Review and guide for applications. WIREs: Water, 11(6), e1747-1-e1747-26.
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2024 Wasko, C., Stephens, C., Peterson, T. J., Nathan, R., Pepler, A., Hettiarachchi, S., . . . Westra, S. (2024). Understanding the implications of climate change for Australia's surface water resources: Challenges and future directions. Journal of Hydrology, 645, 132221-1-132221-13.
DOI Scopus13 WoS12
2023 Sauter, C., Catto, J. L., Fowler, H. J., Westra, S., & White, C. J. (2023). Compounding Heatwave-Extreme Rainfall Events Driven by Fronts, High Moisture, and Atmospheric Instability. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 128(21), 14 pages.
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2023 McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Bennett, B., Thyer, M., & Maier, H. R. (2023). A climate stress testing method for changes in spatially variable rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 625, Part A, 129876.
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2023 Westra, S., & Zscheischler, J. (2023). Accounting for systemic complexity in the assessment of climate risk. One Earth, 6(6), 645-655.
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2023 Sauter, C., White, C. J., Fowler, H. J., & Westra, S. (2023). Temporally compounding heatwave–heavy rainfall events in Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 43(2), 1050-1061.
DOI Scopus29 WoS30
2023 Renard, B., McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., Thyer, M., & Vidal, J. (2023). Floods and Heavy Precipitation at the Global Scale: 100‐Year Analysis and 180‐Year Reconstruction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(9), 26 pages.
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2023 Sauter, C., Fowler, H. J., Westra, S., Ali, H., Peleg, N., & White, C. J. (2023). Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes. Weather and Climate Extremes, 40, 1-7.
DOI Scopus39 WoS35
2023 Knowling, M. J., White, J. T., Grigg, D., Collins, C., Westra, S., Walker, R. R., . . . Alzraiee, A. (2023). Operationalizing crop model data assimilation for improved on-farm situational awareness. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 338, 16 pages.
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2023 Knowling, M. J., Walker, R. R., Pellegrino, A., Edwards, E. J., Westra, S., Collins, C., . . . Bennett, B. (2023). Generalized water production relations through process-based modeling: A viticulture example. Agricultural Water Management, 280, 12 pages.
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2022 Renard, B., Thyer, M., McInerney, D., Kavetski, D., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2022). A Hidden Climate Indices Modeling Framework for Multi‐Variable Space‐Time Data. Water Resources Research, 58(2), 1-27.
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2022 Hessel, V., Liang, S., Tran, N. N., Escribà-Gelonch, M., Zeckovic, O., Knowling, M., . . . Burgess, A. (2022). Eustress in Space: Opportunities for Plant Stressors Beyond the Earth Ecosystem. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9, 1-22.
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2022 Partington, D., Thyer, M., Shanafield, M., McInerney, D., Westra, S., Maier, H., . . . Kavetski, D. (2022). Predicting wildfire induced changes to runoff: A review and synthesis of modeling approaches. WIREs Water, 9(5), 1-25.
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2021 Sun, Q., Zhang, X., Zwiers, F., Westra, S., & Alexander, L. V. (2021). A global, continental, and regional analysis of changes in extreme precipitation. Journal of Climate, 34(1), 243-258.
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2021 Gudmundsson, L., Boulange, J., Do, H. X., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M. G., Koutroulis, A. G., . . . Zhao, F. (2021). Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change. Science, 371(6534), 1159-1162.
DOI Scopus416 WoS382 Europe PMC68
2021 Fowler, H. J., Ali, H., Allan, R. P., Ban, N., Barbero, R., Berg, P., . . . Whitford, A. (2021). Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes.. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 379(2195), 20190542.
DOI Scopus133 WoS113 Europe PMC16
2021 Wasko, C., Westra, S., Nathan, R., Orr, H. G., Villarini, G., Villalobos Herrera, R., & Fowler, H. J. (2021). Incorporating climate change in flood estimation guidance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 379(2195), 1-24.
DOI Scopus89 WoS83 Europe PMC8
2021 Bennett, B., Devanand, A., Culley, S., Westra, S., Guo, D., & Maier, H. R. (2021). A modelling framework and R-package for evaluating system performance under hydroclimate variability and change. Environmental Modelling and Software, 139, 104999-1-104999-18.
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2021 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2021). Estimating the probability of compound floods in estuarine regions. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(5), 2821-2841.
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2021 McPhail, C., Maier, H. R., Westra, S., van der Linden, L., & Kwakkel, J. H. (2021). Guidance framework and software for understanding and achieving system robustness. Environmental Modelling and Software, 142, 16 pages.
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2021 Fowler, H. J., Lenderink, G., Prein, A. F., Westra, S., Allan, R. P., Ban, N., . . . Zhang, X. (2021). Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 2(2), 107-122.
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2021 Knowling, M. J., Bennett, B., Ostendorf, B., Westra, S., Walker, R. R., Pellegrino, A., . . . Grigg, D. (2021). Bridging the gap between data and decisions: A review of process-based models for viticulture. Agricultural Systems, 193, 1-13.
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2021 Culley, S., Westra, S., Maier, H., & Bennett, B. S. (2021). Identifying critical climate variables for use in scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. Environmental Modelling and Software, 136, 14 pages.
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2020 Zscheischler, J., Martius, O., Westra, S., Bevacqua, E., Raymond, C., Horton, R. M., . . . Vignotto, E. (2020). A typology of compound weather and climate events. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(7), 333-347.
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2020 Ridder, N. N., Pitman, A. J., Westra, S., Ukkola, A., Do, H. X., Bador, M., . . . Zscheischler, J. (2020). Publisher Correction: Global hotspots for the occurrence of compound events (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (5956), 10.1038/s41467-020-19639-3). Nature Communications, 11(1), 6445.
DOI Scopus9 Europe PMC1
2020 Ridder, N. N., Pitman, A. J., Westra, S., Ukkola, A., Hong, X. D., Bador, M., . . . Zscheischler, J. (2020). Global hotspots for the occurrence of compound events. Nature Communications, 11(1), 5956.
DOI Scopus281 WoS279 Europe PMC44
2020 Beck, H. E., Westra, S., Tan, J., Pappenberger, F., Huffman, G. J., McVicar, T. R., . . . Wood, E. F. (2020). PPDIST, global 0.1° daily and 3-hourly precipitation probability distribution climatologies for 1979-2018.. Sci Data, 7(1), 302.
DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC4
2020 McPhail, C., Maier, H. R., Westra, S., Kwakkel, J. H., & van der Linden, L. (2020). Impact of Scenario Selection on Robustness. Water Resources Research, 56(9), 1-17.
DOI Scopus38 WoS33
2020 Do, H. X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Gudmundsson, L. (2020). Global-Scale Prediction of Flood Timing Using Atmospheric Reanalysis. Water Resources Research, 56(1), 19 pages.
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2020 Do, H. X., Zhao, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., Eric Stanislas Boulange, J., . . . Wada, Y. (2020). Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model-observation investigation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(3), 1543-1564.
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2019 Culley, S., Bennett, B., Westra, S., & Maier, H. R. (2019). Generating realistic perturbed hydrometeorological time series to inform scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. Journal of Hydrology, 576, 111-122.
DOI Scopus25 WoS22
2019 Moron, V., Barbero, R., Evans, J. P., Westra, S., & Fowler, H. J. (2019). Weather types and hourly to multiday rainfall characteristics in tropical Australia. Journal of Climate, 32(13), 3983-4011.
DOI Scopus18 WoS17
2019 Barbero, R., Fowler, H. J., Blenkinsop, S., Westra, S., Moron, V., Lewis, E., . . . Mishra, V. (2019). A synthesis of hourly and daily precipitation extremes in different climatic regions. Weather and Climate Extremes, 26, 20 pages.
DOI Scopus76 WoS72
2019 Le, P. D., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2019). Spatially dependent flood probabilities to support the design of civil infrastructure systems. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(11), 4851-4867.
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2019 Wright, D., Thyer, M. A., Westra, S., Renard, B., & McInerney, D. (2019). A generalised approach for identifying influential data in hydrological modelling. Environmental Modelling and Software, 111, 231-247.
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2019 Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., Do, H. X., Westra, S., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2019). Observed trends in global indicators of mean and extreme streamflow. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(2), 756-766.
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2018 Lenderink, G., Barbero, R., Westra, S., & Fowler, H. J. (2018). Reply to comments on “Temperature-extreme precipitation scaling: a two-way causality?”. International Journal of Climatology, 38(12), 4664-4666.
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2018 Guerreiro, S., Fowler, H., Barbero, R., Westra, S., Lenderink, G., Blenkinsop, S., . . . Li, X. (2018). Detection of continental-scale intensification of hourly rainfall extremes. Nature Climate Change, 8(9), 803-807.
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2018 Le, P. D., Davison, A. C., Engelke, S., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Dependence properties of spatial rainfall extremes and areal reduction factors. Journal of Hydrology, 565, 711-719.
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2018 Bennett, B., Leonard, M., Deng, Y., & Westra, S. (2018). An empirical investigation into the effect of antecedent precipitation on flood volume. Journal of Hydrology, 567, 435-445.
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2018 Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B. J. J. M., Seneviratne, S. I., Ward, P. J., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Erratum to: Future climate risk from compound events (Nature Climate Change, (2018), 8, 6, (469-477), 10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3). Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 750.
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2018 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Modeling spatial dependence of rainfall extremes across multiple durations. Water Resources Research, 54(3), 2233-2248.
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2018 Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B., Seneviratne, S., Ward, P., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 469-477.
DOI Scopus1741 WoS1635
2018 McPhail, C., Maier, H., Kwakkel, J., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., & Westra, S. (2018). Robustness Metrics: How Are They Calculated, When Should They Be Used and Why Do They Give Different Results?. Earth's Future, 6(2), 169-191.
DOI Scopus197 WoS178
2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (GSIM)-part 2: quality control, time-series indices and homogeneity assessment. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 787-804.
DOI Scopus131 WoS123
2018 Do, H., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (GSIM)-part 1: the production of a daily streamflow archive and metadata. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 765-785.
DOI Scopus210 WoS195
2018 Wu, W., Mcinnes, K., O'grady, J., Hoeke, R., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Mapping dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(4), 2461-2474.
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2018 Wright, D., Thyer, M., Westra, S., & McInerney, D. (2018). A hybrid framework for quantifying the influence of data in hydrological model calibration. Journal of Hydrology, 561, 211-222.
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2018 Barbero, R., Westra, S., Lenderink, G., & Fowler, H. (2018). Temperature-extreme precipitation scaling: a two-way causality?. International Journal of Climatology, 38(S1), e1274-e1279.
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2018 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2018). An inverse approach to perturb historical rainfall data for scenario-neutral climate impact studies. Journal of Hydrology, 556, 877-890.
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2017 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2017). Impact of evapotranspiration process representation on runoff projections from conceptual rainfall-runoff models. Water Resources Research, 53(1), 435-454.
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2017 Do, X., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2017). A global-scale investigation of trends in annual maximum streamflow. Journal of Hydrology, 552, 28-43.
DOI Scopus214 WoS195
2017 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2017). Sensitivity of potential evapotranspiration to changes in climate variables for different Australian climatic zones. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(4), 2107-2126.
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2017 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2017). A basis function approach for exploring the seasonal and spatial features of storm surge events. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(14), 7356-7365.
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2017 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2017). Use of a scenario-neutral approach to identify the key hydro-meteorological attributes that impact runoff from a natural catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 554, 317-330.
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2017 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Application of the design variable method to estimate coastal flood risk. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 10(4), 522-534.
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2016 Cortés-Hernández, V., Zheng, F., Evans, J., Lambert, M., Sharma, A., & Westra, S. (2016). Evaluating regional climate models for simulating sub-daily rainfall extremes. Climate Dynamics, 47(5-6), 1613-1628.
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2016 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2016). An R package for modelling actual, potential and reference evapotranspiration. Environmental Modelling and Software, 78, 216-224.
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2016 Woldemeskel, F., Sharma, A., Mehrotra, R., & Westra, S. (2016). Constraining continuous rainfall simulations for derived design flood estimation. Journal of Hydrology, 542, 581-588.
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2016 Kiem, A., Johnson, F., Westra, S., van Dijk, A., Evans, J., O Donnell, A., . . . Mehrotra, R. (2016). Natural hazards in Australia: droughts. Climatic Change, 139(1), 37-54.
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2016 Westra, S., White, C., & Kiem, A. (2016). Introduction to the special issue: historical and projected climatic changes to Australian natural hazards. Climatic Change, 139(1), 1-19.
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2016 McInnes, K., White, C., Haigh, I., Hemer, M., Hoeke, R., Holbrook, N., . . . Cox, R. (2016). Natural hazards in Australia: sea level and coastal extremes. Climatic Change, 139(1), 69-83.
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2016 Wasko, C., Sharma, A., & Westra, S. (2016). Reduced spatial extent of extreme storms at higher temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(8), 4026-4032.
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2016 Johnson, F., White, C., van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2016). Natural hazards in Australia: floods. Climatic Change, 139(1), 21-35.
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2016 Culley, S., Noble, S., Yates, A., Timbs, M., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., . . . Castelletti, A. (2016). A bottom-up approach to identifying the maximum operational adaptive capacity of water resource systems to a changing climate. Water Resources Research, 52(9), 6751-6768.
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2015 Zheng, F., Thibaud, E., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Assessing the performance of the independence method in modeling spatial extreme rainfall. Water Resources Research, 51(9), 7744-7758.
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2015 Sun, X., Renard, B., Thyer, M., Westra, S., & Lang, M. (2015). A global analysis of the asymmetric effect of ENSO on extreme precipitation. Journal of Hydrology, 530, 51-65.
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2015 Siebentritt, M., Green, G., Charles, S., Fu, G., Westra, S., Thyer, M. A., & van der Linden, L. (2015). The SA Climate Ready Project. Water, 42(2), 64-68.
2015 Wright, D., Thyer, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Influential point detection diagnostics in the context of hydrological model calibration. Journal of Hydrology, 527, 1161-1172.
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2015 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Efficient joint probability analysis of flood risk. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 17(4), 584-597.
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2015 Zheng, F., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2015). Opposing local precipitation extremes. Nature Climate Change, 5(5), 389-390.
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2015 Westra, S., Renard, B., & Thyer, M. (2015). The ENSO-precipitation teleconnection and its modulation by the interdecadal pacific oscillation. Journal of Climate, 28(12), 4753-4773.
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2015 Mehrotra, R., Li, J., Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2015). A programming tool to generate multi-site daily rainfall using a two-stage semi parametric model. Environmental Modelling and Software, 63, 230-239.
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2014 Westra, S., Fowler, H., Evans, J., Alexander, L., Berg, P., Johnson, F., . . . Roberts, N. (2014). Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall. Reviews of Geophysics, 52(3), 522-555.
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2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Sisson, S. (2014). Modeling dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge to estimate coastal flooding risk. Water Resources Research, 50(3), 2050-2071.
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2014 Rajah, K., O'Leary, T., Turner, A., Petrakis, G., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2014). Changes to the temporal distribution of daily precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(24), 8887-8894.
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2014 Westra, S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2014). A strategy for diagnosing and interpreting hydrological model nonstationarity. Water Resources Research, 50(6), 5090-5113.
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2014 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Phatak, A., Lambert, M., Van Den Hurk, B., McInnes, K., . . . Stafford-Smith, M. (2014). A compound event framework for understanding extreme impacts. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change, 5(1), 113-128.
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2013 Zheng, F., Westra, S., & Sisson, S. (2013). Quantifying the dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge in the coastal zone. Journal of Hydrology, 505, 172-187.
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2013 Westra, S., Alexander, L., & Zwiers, F. (2013). Global increasing trends in annual maximum daily precipitation. Journal of Climate, 26(11), 3904-3918.
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2013 Ishak, E., Rahman, A., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Kuczera, G. (2013). Evaluating the non-stationarity of Australian annual maximum flood. Journal of Hydrology, 494, 134-145.
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2013 Bormann, K., Westra, S., Evans, J., & McCabe, M. (2013). Spatial and temporal variability in seasonal snow density. Journal of Hydrology, 484, 63-73.
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2013 Westra, S., Evans, J., Mehrotra, R., & Sharma, A. (2013). A conditional disaggregation algorithm for generating fine time-scale rainfall data in a warmer climate. Journal of Hydrology, 479, 86-99.
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2012 Evans, J., & Westra, S. (2012). Investigating the mechanisms of diurnal rainfall variability using a regional climate model. Journal of Climate, 25(20), 7232-7247.
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2012 Pathiraja, S., Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2012). Why continuous simulation? The role of antecedent moisture in design flood estimation. Water Resources Research, 48(6), 1-15.
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2012 Pui, A., Sharma, A., Santoso, A., & Westra, S. (2012). Impact of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole, and Southern Annular Mode on Daily to Subdaily Rainfall Characteristics in East Australia. Monthly Weather Review, 140(5), 1665-1682.
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2012 Mehrotra, R., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Srikanthan, R. (2012). Continuous rainfall simulation: 2. A regionalized daily rainfall generation approach. Water Resources Research, 48(1), 1-16.
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2012 Westra, S., Mehrotra, R., Sharma, A., & Srikanthan, R. (2012). Continuous rainfall simulation: 1. A regionalized subdaily disaggregation approach. Water Resources Research, 48(1), W01535-1-W01535-16.
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2011 Westra, S., & Sisson, S. (2011). Detection of non-stationarity in precipitation extremes using a max-stable process model. Journal of Hydrology, 406(1-2), 119-128.
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2011 Johnson, F., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Pitman, A. (2011). An assessment of GCM skill in simulating persistence across multiple time scales. Journal of Climate, 24(14), 3609-3623.
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2011 Locke, P., Clifton, C., & Westra, S. (2011). Extreme weather events and the mining industry. Engineering and Mining Journal, 212(3), 58-59.
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2011 Locke, P., Clifton, C., Westra, S., & Whaley, M. (2011). Climate adaption: Extreme weather events and the mining industry. Bulk Solids Handling, 31(3), 136-138.
2010 Jones, R., Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2010). Observed relationships between extreme sub-daily precipitation, surface temperature, and relative humidity. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L22805), 1-5.
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2010 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2010). An Upper limit to seasonal rainfall predictability?. Journal of Climate, 23(12), 3332-3351.
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2010 Westra, S., Brown, C., Lall, U., Koch, I., & Sharma, A. (2010). Interpreting variability in global SST data using independent component analysis and principal component analysis. International Journal of Climatology, 30(3), 333-346.
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2010 Westra, S., Varley, I., Jordan, P., Nathan, R., Ladson, A., Sharma, A., & Hill, P. (2010). Addressing climatic non-stationarity in the assessment of flood risk. Australian Journal of Water Resources, 14(1), 1-16.
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2009 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). Probabilistic estimation of multivariate streamflow using independent component analysis and climate information. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10(6), 1479-1492.
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2009 Westra, S. (2009). Hydroclimatology: perspectives and applications by M.L. Shelton. Progress in Physical Geography, 33(2), 296-298.
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2008 Westra, S., Sharma, A., Brown, C., & Lall, U. (2008). Multivariate streamflow forecasting using independent component analysis. Water Resources Research, 44(W02437), 1-11.
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2007 Westra, S., Brown, C., Lall, U., & Sharma, A. (2007). Modeling multivariable hydrological series: principal component analysis or independent component analysis?. Water Resources Research, 43(W06429), 1-11.
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2006 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2006). Dominant modes of interannual variability in Australian rainfall analyzed using wavelets. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111(D05102), 1-10.
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Year Citation
2022 Lawrence, J., Mackey, B., Chiew, F., Costello, M., Hennessy, K., Lansbury, N., . . . Westra, S. (2022). Australasia. In H. -O. Portner, D. Roberts, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegria, . . . B. Rama (Eds.), Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Working Group II Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 1581-1688). USA and the UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2020 Zscheischler, J., Van Den Hurk, B., Ward, P. J., & Westra, S. (2020). Multivariate extremes and compound events. In J. Sillmann, S. Sippel, & S. Russo (Eds.), Climate Extremes and Their Implications for Impact and Risk Assessment (Jana Sillmann, Sebastian Sippel and Simone Russo ed., pp. 59-76). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
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2016 Bates, B., McLuckie, D., Westra, S. P., Johnson, F., Green, J., Mummery, J., & Abbs, D. (2016). Climate Change Considerations. In J. Ball, M. Babister, R. Nathan, W. Weeks, E. Weinmann, M. Retallick, & I. Testoni (Eds.), Australian Rainfall and Runoff: A guide to flood estimation (ARR) (2016 ed.). Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2016.
2016 Sharma, A., Srikanthan, R., Mehrotra, R., & Westra, S. P. (2016). Continuous Rainfall Simulation. In J. Ball, M. Babister, R. Nathan, W. Weeks, E. Weinmann, M. Retallick, & I. Testoni (Eds.), Australian Rainfall and Runoff: A guide to flood estimation (ARR) (2016 ed.). Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2016.
2016 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Zheng, F. (2016). Interaction of coastal and catchment flooding. In J. Ball, M. Babister, R. Nathan, W. Weeks, E. Weinmann, M. Retallick, & I. Testoni (Eds.), Australian Rainfall and Runoff: A guide to flood estimation (ARR) (2016 ed.). Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2016.

Year Citation
2024 Maier, H. R., Westra, S., Nathan, R., Culley, S., Armstrong, M., Horne, A., . . . Bailey, J. (2024). Engineering 101: Why Do We Ignore Basic Engineering Principles When Dealing With Climate Change?. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Hwrs 2024 (pp. 134-137).
2024 Reeve, P., Anese, J., Mullins, B., Wallis, I., Batelaan, O., Fallowfield, H., . . . Leonard, M. (2024). Opportunities and risks associated with identifying, sourcing and treating brackish groundwater. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Hwrs 2024 (pp. 70-73). Melbourne, Australia: Engineers Australia.
2023 Nguyen, D. C. H., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2023). Use of climatic partitions for stochastic rainfall modelling. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 635-641). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2023 Nguyen, D. C. H., Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Dutta, D. (2023). Impact of infilling method on streamflow derivation. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 628-634). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2023 Devanand, A., Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Nguyen, D. C. H. (2023). NARCliM1.5 projections over the southern Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM (pp. 191-197). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2022 Newman, J. P., Bennett, B., Culley, S. A., Maier, H. R., Westra, S., Thyer, M., . . . Leonard, M. (2022). Understanding Kangaroo Island water supply reliability in future climates and the path to augmentation solutions. In Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2022 (pp. 934-947). Online: Engineers Australia.
2021 Maier, H. R., Guillaume, J. H. A., McPhail, C., Westra, S., Kwakkel, J. H., Razavi, S., . . . Jakeman, A. J. (2021). Uncertainty, sensitivity and scenario analysis: how do they fit together?. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) (pp. 554-560). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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2021 Culley, S., Westra, S., Bennett, B., Maier, H., Newman, J., van der Linden, L., & Irvine, M. (2021). Water security analysis of the Middle River supply system: a foreSIGHT application. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) (pp. 547-553). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
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2021 Partington, D., Thyer, M., Shanafield, M., McInerney, D., Westra, S., Maier, H., . . . Kavetski, D. (2021). Modelling hydrological change due to wildfires. In Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) (pp. 582-587). Canberra, ACT, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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2020 Westra, S., & Sharma, S. (2020). An exploratory study of seasonal rainfall variability in Australia using independent component analysis. In MODSIM 2005 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings (pp. 1723-1729).
2018 Blenkinsop, S., Fowler, H. J., Barbero, R., Chan, S. C., Guerreiro, S. B., Kendon, E., . . . Tye, M. R. (2018). The INTENSE project: using observations and models to understand the past. present and future of sub-daily rainfall extremes. In ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH Vol. 15 (pp. 117-126). Dublin, IRELAND: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH.
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2016 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). A Design Variable Method for Estimating Flood Risk in Australian Estuarine Catchments. In Online archive. Shoalhaven, Nowra.
2015 Bates, B. C., McLuckie, D., Westra, S. P., Johnson, F., Green, J., Mummery, J., & Abbs, D. (2015). Revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff - The Interim Climate Change Guideline. In Flood Management Australia. Brisbane.
2015 Johnson, F., White, C., van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). How and why are floods changing in Australia?. In Proceedings of the 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water (pp. 1284-1291). Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia.
2015 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Thyer, M. (2015). A principles-evaluate-discuss model for teaching journal and conference paper writing skills to postgraduate research students. In A. Oo,, A. Patel,, T. Hilditch,, & S. Chandran, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 1-10). Geelong, Victoria: School of Engineering, Deakin University.
2015 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Zheng, F., Babister, M., & Varga, I. (2015). Developing water level maps in the joint probability zone influenced by extreme tide and rainfall events. In Proceedings of the 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water (pp. 96-103). Barton, A.C.T., Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2015 Bates, B., Argueso, D., Evans, J., Green, J., Griesser, A., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). Preliminary assessment of the impact of climate change on design rainfall IFD curves. In 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium : The art of science and water (pp. 1-8). Hobart, Tas: Engineers Australia.
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2015 Bates, B., McLuckie, D., Westra, S., Johnson, F., Green, J., Mummery, J., & Abbs, D. (2015). Australian rainfall and runoff - the interim climate change guideline. In 36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium : The art and science of water (pp. 1-8). Hobart, Tas: Engineers Australia.
2014 Guo, D., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2014). An R package for implementing multiple evapotranspiration formulations. In Proceedings - 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, iEMSs 2014 Vol. 3 (pp. 1214-1221). online: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society.
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2014 Ishak, E., Rahman, A., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Kuczera, G. (2014). Trend analysis of Australian annual maximum flood data: exploring relationship with climate and catchment characteristics. In Proceedings of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. 445-452). Perth, Western Australia: A.C.T. Engineers Australia.
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2014 Bennett, B., Lambert, M., Thyer, M., Bates, B., & Westra, S. (2014). The impact of differences in rainfall seasonality on antecedent catchment wetness and flood risk. In Proceedings of the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. 421-428). Perth, Western Australia: A.C.T. Engineers Australia.
2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S., Sisson, S., & Leonard, M. (2014). Flood risk estimation in Australia’s coastal zone: modelling the dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge. In Proceedings of the 35th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2014 (pp. 390-396). Perth, Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2012 Westra, S., Evans, J., Mehrotra, R., & Sharma, A. (2012). Changes to sub-daily rainfall patterns in a future climate. In Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology & Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2012 (pp. 567-570). Australia: Engineers Australia.
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2012 Westra, S., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2012). Diagnosing non-stationary behaviour in a hydrological model. In Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology & Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2012 (pp. 256-264). Australia: Engineers Australia.
2011 Westra, S. (2011). Investigation into the joint dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge in the coastal zone. In Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering (pp. 543-550). Barton, A.C.T: Engineers Australia.
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2011 Ishak, E., Rahman, A., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Kuczera, G. (2011). Trends in peak streamflow data in Australia: impacts of serial and cross-correlation. In Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of the International Association for Hydro- Environment Research and Engineering: 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering (pp. 766-773). Barton, A.C.T: Engineers Australia.
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2011 Westra, S., Mehrotra, R., Sharma, A., & Srikanthan, S. (2011). Continuous simulation of rainfall at ungauged locations - A non-parametric disaggregation approach. In 34th IAHR Congress 2011 Balance and Uncertainty Water in A Changing World Incorporating the 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and the 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering (pp. 458-465).
2011 Hardwick Jones, R., Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2011). Observed relationships between extreme sub-daily rainfall, surface temperature and relative humidity. In 34th IAHR Congress 2011 Balance and Uncertainty Water in A Changing World Incorporating the 33rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium and the 10th Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering (pp. 750-757).
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2010 Westra, S., Mehrotra, R., Srikanthan, R., & Sharma, A. (2010). Continuous rainfall simulation: estimation at ungauged locations. In Proccedings of International Workshop Advances in Statistical Hydrology 2010 (pp. 1-10). Italy: University of Catania.
2010 Ishak, E., Rahman, A., Westra, S., Sharma, A., & Kuczera, G. (2010). Preliminary analysis of trends in Australian flood data. In Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010 (pp. 115-124). USA: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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2009 Pui, A., Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). How does the El Nino Southern Oscillation and other large scale forcings impact daily - sub daily rainfall in eastern Australia?. In Proceedings of H2009: 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle: Adapting to Change (pp. 275-285). ACT: Engineers Australia.
2009 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). Continuous rainfall simulation: estimation at ungauged locations. In Proceedings of H2009 the 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. 1040-1049). ACT: Engineers Australia.
2009 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). Estimating the seasonal predictability of global precipitation: an empirical approach. In Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 1-7). Canberra ACT: The Australian National University.
2009 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). Estimating the seasonal predictability of global precipitation - An empirical approach. In R. S. Anderssen, R. D. Braddock, & L. T. H. Newham (Eds.), 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings (pp. 2749-2755). Cairns, AUSTRALIA: UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
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2009 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2009). Estimating the seasonal predictability of global precipitation - An empirical approach. In 18th World Imacs Congress and Modsim 2009 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences Proceedings (pp. 2749-2755).
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2008 Westra, S., Hill, P., Jordan, P., & Varley, I. (2008). Recent developments in climate science: implications for Australian flood guidelines. In Proceedings from the Stormwater Industry Association 12th Annual Conference on Urban Stormwater 2008 (pp. 0 pages). NSW: Stormwater Industry Association.
2008 Westra, S., & Ball, J. (2008). On the propagation of errors in catchment modelling systems. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage, 2008 (pp. 1-10). CD-ROM.
2007 Ball, J., & Westra, S. (2007). Propagation of errors in catchment modelling systems. In Proceedings of 32nd Congress of IAHR (pp. 0 pages). Venice: IAHR.
2006 Westra, S., Sharma, A., Brown, C., & Lall, U. (2006). Stochastic generation of rainfall and streamflow time series at multiple sites using independent component analysis. In Proceedings of 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2006 (pp. 510-515). ACT: Engineers Australia.
2005 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2005). An exploratory study of seasonal rainfall variability in Australia using independent component analysis. In Proceedings of Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM) conference 2005 (pp. 1723-1729). Canberra: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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2005 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2005). An investigation of the nature of variability in Australian rainfall using wavelets. In The 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. 1-8). ACT: Engineers Australia.
2005 Westra, S., & Ball, J. (2005). The influence of autocorrelated errors on catchment modelling systems. In Proceedings of the 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (pp. 1-8). ACT: Engineers Australia.

Year Citation
2023 Leigh, R., Kingsborough, A., Westra, S., Brettig, P., & Helfgott, A. (2023). Barossa Water Security Strategy: A Demonstration of Community Leadership, Strategic Foresight, Climate Resilience and Systems Modelling. Poster session presented at the meeting of 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Darwin, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
2022 McPhail, C., Maier, H., Westra, S., & van der Linden, L. (2022). Making sense of scenario techniques and robustness metrics for decision making under deep uncertainty. Poster session presented at the meeting of 11th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Brussels, Belgium, Ann van Griensven, Jiri Nossent, Stefan Reis (Eds.) https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/iemssconference/2022/. Brussels.
2021 Knowling, M., White, J. T., Collins, C., Grigg, D., Westra, S., Ostendorf, B., . . . Pagay, V. (2021). Real-time ensemble assimilation of image-based canopy data into a process-based model for improved vineyard forecasting, situational awareness and decision-making. Poster session presented at the meeting of https://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2021/documents/MODSIM2021_BookofAbstracts.pdf. Sydney, Australia.
2021 Knowling, M., Westra, S., Bennett, B., Ostendorf, B., Walker, R., Pellegrino, A., . . . Pagay, V. (2021). The ‘cause and effect’ of water decisions: Generalizing water production functions for viticulture through biophysical simulation. Poster session presented at the meeting of 24th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Sydney, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
2021 Leigh, R., Knowling, M., Westra, S., Bennett, B., Zecchin, A., Maier, H., . . . Devanand, A. (2021). A multi-modelling framework to stress-test water resource systems under change. Poster session presented at the meeting of 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021) Book of Abstracts. Sydney, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc..
2018 Bennett, B., Westra, S., Cavagnaro, T., Wheeler, S., Shi, Q., & Pagay, V. (2018). Unpacking Agricultural System Complexities for Improved Outcomes: Taking Advantage of Emerging Data, Technologies and Analysis. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting.
2018 Bennett, B., Culley, S., Westra, S., & Maier, H. (2018). ForeSIGHT: An R-package to Support Scenario-Neutral Climate Impact Assessments. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2018, H53Q-1819. Washington, DC, USA.
2018 Culley, S. A., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., & Bennett, B. (2018). An R tool for scenario-neutral climate impact analysis of water resource systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software.
2018 Culley, S. A., Westra, S., Maier, H. R., & Bennett, B. (2018). Identifying the climate variables to which water resource systems are most sensitive. Poster session presented at the meeting of 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software.
2018 Gudmundsson, L., Seneviratne, S., Do, H. X., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). Investigating hydrological change using the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Do, H. X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Senerivatne, S. (2018). Global-scale prediction of flood timing using atmospheric reanalysis and
the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018.
2018 Do, H. X., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive – A Collection of 30,959 Streamflow Records across the Globe. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting 2018.
2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H. X., Gosling, S., Leonard, M., Liu, J., Schmied, H. M., . . . Zhao, F. (2018). Using big data to detect and attribute global hydrological change. Poster session presented at the meeting of AGU Fall Meeting 2018.
2018 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Investigating the relationship of low flows to local scale hydrology. Poster session presented at the meeting of DEWNR-NRM Science Conference. Adelaide.
2018 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Improving the understanding of runoff generation at the hillslope scale with low-cost instream sensors. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). Joint probability and conditional probability of flooding in complex systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). A comparison of flood estimation methods in estuarine regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Do, X., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. (2018). Global-scale prediction of flood timing using atmospheric reanalysis and the Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata (GSIM) archive. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Zscheischler, W., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B., Seneviratne, S., Ward, P., Pitman, A., . . . Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk: The challenge of compound events. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2018. Vienna, Austria.
2018 Leonard, M., Wu, W., & Westra, S. (2018). Censored Continuous Simulation for Flood Probability Estimation in Estuarine Regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of Floodplain Management Australia,. Gold Coast.
2018 Westra, S., Bennett, B., Evans, J., Johnson, F., Leonard, M., Sharma, A., . . . Wu, W. (2018). Impact of Climate Change on Australian Flood Risk: A Review of Recent Evidence. Poster session presented at the meeting of Floodplain Management Australia. Gold Coast.
2018 Bennett, B. S., Westra, S., & Culley, S. (2018). An R tool for climate resilience analysis of water resource systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Bennett, B. S., Culley, S., & Westra, S. (2017). Generating perturbed hydroclimate time series for use in scenario-neutral climate impact assessments. Poster session presented at the meeting of 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
2017 Bennett, B. S., Westra, S., Zhang, L., & Potter, N. (2017). Update on CRAFT case study: Parafield MAR and stormwater capture. Poster session presented at the meeting of Goyder Institute Water Forum 2017. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
2017 Do, X. H., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. (2017). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata archive (G-SIM): A compilation of global streamflow time series indices and meta-data. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Wu, W., Westra, S., Leonard, M., & McInnes, K. (2017). Mapping dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge across the Australian coastline using ROMS. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Leonard, M., Wu, W., & Westra, S. (2017). A Basis Function Approach to Simulate Storm Surge Events for Coastal Flood Risk Assessment. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Conditional probability of rainfall extremes across multiple durations. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2017. Vienna, Austria.
2017 Makarewicz, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2017). Improving the understanding of runoff generation at the hillslope scale with low-cost instream sensors. Poster session presented at the meeting of Goyder Institute Water Forum 2017. Adelaide.
2016 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Deng, Y., & Lambert, M. (2016). The role of antecedent moisture conditions on flood response. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). Calibrating max-stable models of rainfall extremes at multiple timescales. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2016). Estimating flood exceedance probabilities in estuarine regions. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2016 Do, X. H., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2016). A global-scale investigation of trends in annual maximum streamflow. Poster session presented at the meeting of OzEWEX 3rd National Workshop. Canberra, Australia.
2016 Do, X. H., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2016). Are worldwide floods changing? Evidence from global high-quality annual maximum streamflow records. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly 2016. Vienna, Austria.
2015 Johnson, F., White, C., Van Dijk, A., Ekstrom, M., Evans, J., Jakob, D., . . . Westra, S. (2015). Past and future trends in Australian floods: what are the causes?. Poster session presented at the meeting of 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Gold Coast.
2015 Le, P., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2015). Demonstration of max-stable models for estimating catchment flood risk. Poster session presented at the meeting of 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Gold Coast.
2013 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2013). A compound event framework. Poster session presented at the meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Brisbane.
2013 Bennett, B. S., Lambert, M., Thyer, M., Bates, B., & Westra, S. (2013). Techniques for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Antecedent Catchment Wetness and Flooding. Poster session presented at the meeting of 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. Adelaide, South Australia.
- Thyer, M., Gupta, H., Westra, S., McInerney, D., Maier, H., Kavetski, D., . . . Tague, C. (n.d.). Virtual Hydrological Laboratories: Developing the next generation of conceptual models to support decision-making under change. Poster session presented at the meeting of Unknown Conference.
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2022 He, L., Zecchin, A., Westra, S., Jeanneau, A., Radford, D., & Maier, H. (2022). ADAPTIVE ANALYTICAL BUSHFIRE LIKELIHOOD (AABL) TOOL FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND REDUCING FUTURE BUSHFIRE RISK.
2022 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Nguyen, D. C. H. (2022). Multi-site Rainfall, Evapotranspiration and Temperature Generation for the Southern Region: Evaluation Report (2022/1).
2022 Westra, S., Leigh, R., Knowling, M., Beh, E., Devanand, A., Thyer, M., . . . McInerney, D. (2022). Assessment of current and future water security in the Barossa and Eden Valleys.
2021 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Devanand, A. (2021). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX F –Western region stochastic evaluation. (2021/01).
2020 Devanand, A., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2020). Implications of Non-Stationarity for Stochastic Time Series Generation in the Southern Basins.
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin (2020/01).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX A –Gwydir region stochastic evaluation (2020/02).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX B –Border region stochastic evaluation (2020/03).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Bennett, B. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX C –Namoi region stochastic evaluation (2020/04).
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Devanand, A. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX D –Far North Coast region stochastic evaluation.
2020 Leonard, M., Westra, S. P., & Devanand, A. (2020). Methodology Report for Multisite Rainfall and Evapotranspiration Data Generation of the Northern Basin, ANNEX E –North Coast region stochastic evaluation.
2020 Culley, S., Westra, S., Maier, H., Bennett, B., & Newman, J. (2020). WATER SECURITY RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE RIVER SUPPLY SYSTEM (2020/10).
2019 Leonard, M., Westra, S., & Bennett, B. (2019). Multisite Rainfall and Evaporation Data Generation for the Macquarie Water Infrastructure Project (2019/01).
2018 Bennett, B. S., Zhang, L., Potter, N., & Westra, S. (2018). Climate Resilience Analysis Framework: Testing the resilience of natural and engineered systems (18/02). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2018 Potter, N., Zhang, L., Bennett, B. S., & Westra, S. (2018). Case study for Climate Resilience Analysis Framework and Tools (CRAFT): Managed aquifer recharge at Parafield Airport (18/03).
2018 Westra, S., Leonard, M., & Bennett, B. (2018). Accounting for climate change in the management and development of South Australia’s stormwater infrastructure.
2018 Wu, W., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (2018). A unified approach for estimating coastal flood risk.
2014 Westra, S., Zheng, F., & Leonard, M. (2014). Joint Probability Analysis of Rainfall events and tidal levels at Fremantle.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 1: hydrological model development and sources of uncertainty (14/22). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 2: hydrological evaluation of the CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs and the Non-homogenous Hidden Markov Model (NHMM) (14/23). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Westra, S. P., Thyer, M., Leonard, M., & Lambert, M. (2014). Impacts of climate change on surface water in the Onkaparinga catchment - Final report volume 3: impact of climate change on runoff in the Onkaparinga catchment (14/27). Goyder Institute for Water Research.
2014 Zheng, F., Westra, S. P., & Leonard, M. (2014). Australian Rainfall and Runoff: Revision project 18: Coincidence of fluvial flooding events and coastal water levels in estuarine areas (Stage 3 Report) (P18/S3/011).
2012 Westra, S., Mehrotra, R., & Sharma, A. (2012). Australian rainfall and runoff revision project 4: continuous rainfall sequences at a point, stage 2 report (P4/S2/014). Engineers Australia.
2012 Westra, S. (2012). Australian rainfall and runoff revision projects: project 18: interaction of coastal processes and severe weather events (P18/S2/010). Engineers Australia.
2011 Westra, S. (2011). Implications of climate change on flood estimation: discussion paper for the Australian rainfall and runoff climate change workshop (2). Water Research Centre, UNSW.
2010 Westra, S., & Sharma, A. (2010). Australian rainfall and runoff revision project 4: continuous rainfall sequences at a point, stage 1 report. Engineers Australia.

Year Citation
2012 Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2012). Discussion paper: A typology of compound events?. CSIRO workshop, 11th April, Melbourne.

Year Citation
2015 Thyer, M. A., & Westra, S. (2015). Adelaide is facing a dry future – it needs to start planning now. The Conversation.
2015 Leonard, M., Zheng, F., & Westra, S. (2015). Sydney storm: are extreme rains and flash floods increasing?. The Conversation.

Year Citation
2018 Do, H. X., Gudmundsson, L., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive - Part 1: Station catalog and Catchment boundary.
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2018 Gudmundsson, L., Do, H. X., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. (2018). The Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archive (GSIM) - Part 2: Time Series Indices and Homogeneity Assessment.
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- Thyer, M., Westra, S., & Leonard, M. (n.d.). Onkaparinga Catchment Climate Change Modelling.
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Year Citation
2018 Bennett, B. S., Culley, S., Westra, S., Guo, D., & Maier, H. (2018). foreSIGHT: Systems Insights from Generation of Hydroclimatic Timeseries (Version 0.9.2) [Computer Software]. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreSIGHT: CRAN.
2016 Leonard, M., Westra, S., Zheng, F., & Stensmyr, P. (2016). Interaction of River and Coastal Flooding, http://p18.arr-software.org/ (Version 0.1.0) [Computer Software]. Engineers Australia.
2015 Westra, S. P., & Guo, D. (2015). Evapotranspiration: Modelling Actual, Potential and Reference Crop Evapotranspiration (Version 1.6) [Computer Software]. The Comprehensive R Network.
2014 Zheng, F., Leonard, M., & Westra, S. P. (2014). jointPm: Risk estimation using the joint probability method, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jointPm/index.html (Version 2.3.1) [Computer Software]. The Comprehensive R Network.
- McInerney, D., Westra, S., Leonard, M., Kavetski, D., Thyer, M., & Maier, H. (n.d.). Code and data for 'Tailored Calibration of Stochastic Weather Generators for Enhanced Hydrological System Evaluation' by McInerney et al [Computer Software].
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Year Citation
- Thyer, M., McInerney, D., Kavetski, D., Westra, S., Maier, H., Shanafield, M., . . . Leonard, M. (n.d.). Neglecting hydrological errors can severely impact predictions of water resource system performance.
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Year Citation
- McPhail, C., Maier, H., Kwakkel, J., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., & Westra, S. (n.d.). Robustness metrics: How are they calculated and when should they be used?.
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Competitive National Research Grants

Date Project/No. Investigators Funding Body
2015-2017 A unified approach for estimating coastal flood risk Westra, S. & Leonard, M. ARC Linkage
2015-2017 A spatial extremes framework for predicting subdaily rainfall intensity Westra, S. & Johnson, F. ARC Discovery
2012-2014 A new strategy for design flood estimation in a non-stationary climate Sharma, A. & Westra, S. ARC Discovery
2012-2013 Investigation of the extreme impacts caused by multiple climate processes: understanding risk to inform adaptation Westra, S. CSIRO Adaptation Flagship Collaboration Fund

Other Research Funding

Date Project/No. Investigators Funding Body
2013-2014 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 1: Extreme rainfall under a future climate Westra, S. Engineers Australia
2009-2010 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 4: Continuous rainfall simulation Sharma, A. & Westra, S. Engineers Australia
2009-2014 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18: Joint probability of extreme rainfall and storm surge in the estuarine catchments Westra, S. Engineers Australia

Consultancies

Since 2012 I have undertaken several consultancies for private and government clients.

Undergraduate teaching activities

Dates Course Number Course Code
2014- Designing Water Resources Systems for Urban Environments (formerly known as Environmental Engineering IVB) C&ENVENG 4109/7109
2015- Advanced Topics in Flood Hydrology C&ENVENG 4115/7115

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor Opportunities and challenges for using brackish groundwater to increase agricultural productivity and resilience in the Murray-Darling Basin Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Caleb James Gray
2023 Co-Supervisor Opportunities and challenges for using brackish groundwater to increase agricultural productivity and resilience in the Murray-Darling Basin Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Caleb James Gray

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Quantifying Intermittent Streamflow with Low-cost Sensors and Fully Integrated Hydrological Modelling of Upstream Runoff Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Alicja Natalia Makarewicz
2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Towards a Better Understanding of Scenarios and Robustness for the Long-Term Planning of Water and Environmental Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Cameron McPhail
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Improved Implementation of Scenario-Neutral Climate Impact Assessments for Water Resource Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sam Anthony Culley
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Flood Hazard Characteristics at the Global Scale: An Observation-based Perspective Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hong Do
2014 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Evaluation of Regional Climate Models for Simulating Sub-daily Rainfall Extremes Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Virginia Edith Cortes Hernandez
2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor A new flood estimation paradigm for the design of civil infrastructure systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Phuong Dong Le
2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Practical Implementation of the Scenario-Neutral Approach to Climate Impact Assessments for Hydrological Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Danlu Guo
2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Influence Diagnostics in Hydrological Modeling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time David Peter Wright

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2014 - ongoing Chair Trends and Extremes Working Group Australian Energy and Water Exchanges (OzEWEX) Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member Hydrological Society of South Australia Australia
2013 - ongoing - Chartered member (CPEng) of Engineers Australia Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering colleges Australia
2013 - ongoing - National Professional Engineers Register (NPER) Australia
2006 - ongoing Member European Geosciences Union (EGU) Australia
2005 - ongoing Member American Geophysical Union (AGU) -

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