Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Mark Hemer
CIRES Visiting Fellow
2012-2013

Sabbatical
Ph.D., University of Tasmania, Australia

Project: Surface wave driven feedbacks in the coupled climate system

Mark Hemer is a research scientist at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research and is based in Hobart, Tasmania. His research focuses on how wind-waves behave in a variable climate system.

Hemer is working with Baylor Fox-Kemper’s research group and also collaborating with researchers at NOAA and NCAR.  He is working to couple a spectral wind-wave model with a global climate model. Current models do not adequately account for wind-wave effects on climate. “We hope that parameterization of wind-wave dependent processes in global general circulation models reduces model biases—improving climate simulations and understanding of how wind-waves influence the climate system,” he says.

Hemer is looking forward to hiking, mountain biking, and skiing in Colorado, and “Of course, my two young lads (1 and 3) are keen to look for dinosaurs,” he says.

Sponsor: Baylor Fox-Kemper