(a) Personal

Name: Roger Keith SMITH
Date of Birth: 22 May, 1943
Citizenship British (U.K.) and Australian

Telephone:

Home (08152) 70345 or INT+49 8152 70345
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(b) Education and Awards:

• 1964 B.Sc. in Mathematics with 1st Class Honours, University of Manchester.
• 1968 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics/Fluid Mechanics, University of Manchester.

• 1961 U.K. State Scholarship
• 1962 Dalton Mathematics Prize, University of Manchester
• 1972 Finnish Ministry of Education, Post-doctoral Scholarship
• 1978 Finnish Ministry of Education, Post-doctoral Scholarship

• 1994 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society - The Priestley Medal

• 1988- Professor of Meteorology (C4), University of Munich
• 2003- Adjunct Professor, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

• 1985 Visiting Professor, University of Munich (6 months)
• 1985 - 88 Reader in Applied Mathematics, Monash University
• 1982 Senior Visiting Scientist, German Aerospace Research Organization (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Munich. (Jan - May)
• 1978 Visiting Scientist, Department of Meteorology, University of Helsinki (Apr. - Jul.)
• 1976, 1975, 1972 Vacation Consultant, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.K. Meteorological Office (two week periods).
• 1973-84 Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Monash University
• 1971-72 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
• 1972 Visiting Scientist, Department of Meteorology, University of Helsinki (2 months)
• 1970 Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Queensland (one term)
• 1968-71 Lecturer in applied mathematics, Monash University
• 1966-68 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Manchester (two academic years)
• 1964 Assistant to the Deputy Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (2 months)
• 1963 Vacation student, Meteorological Research Unit, Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, England (2 months)

• Royal Meteorological Society (Student member 1963-67, Fellow 1967- )
• American Meteorological Society (Student member 1966-68, Professional Member 1968- )
• Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (Member 1988- )

• 1974       Organized the applied mathematics section of the Australian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute at Monash University
• 1974-77   Committee member, Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society
• 1975-76   Secretary, Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological. Society
• 1975       Joint secretary, Organizing Committee, Australasian Conference on Climate and Climatic Change held at Monash University and sponsored by the Australian Branch of the Royal Meteorological Society together with the Australian Academy of Science
• 1976       Organizer of a weekend Meteorological Field study Course for the Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society and the Environmental Studies Association of Victoria
• 1976       Organized a one-day Workshop on Vorticity at Monash University for the Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society
• 1977-79   Member of Organizing Committee, International Conference on Tropical Cyclones held in Perth 1979 under co-sponsorship of the American Meteorological Society and the Australian Academy of Science. Convenor of the Numerical Modelling session
• 1977       External research programme assessor for CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Physics
• 1978       Member, ad hoc committee of the Bureau of Meteorology on ‘Progress and prospects for improving weather forecasting in Australia’
• 1978-      Member, Education sub-committee, Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society
• 1979       Member, Australian Academy of Science Committee to prepare a submission to the Committee of Review of the Australian Numerical Meteorology Research Centre
• 1979       Convener of a joint-Bureau, CSIRO, University, Working Group to examine the possibility of establishing a ‘Cold Fronts Research Programme’ in Australia
• 1979       Leader of a small meteorological expedition to Burketown, North Queensland, to make detailed field observations of ‘Morning Glory’ wind Squalls (see Weather, 1977, p. 176)
• 1979-      member of the Editorial Board of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
• 1980       Leader of second ‘Morning glory’ expedition
• 1980-87   Chairman, Joint Planning Committee, Australian Cold Fronts Research Programme
• 1981-87   Associate Editor, Australian Meteorological Magazine
• 1981       Leader of a 21 person ‘Morning Glory’ field experiment
• 1982       Participated in the world Meteorological Organization sponsored Alpine Experiment (ALPEX) in Geneva, Switzerland
• 1982-84   Chairman, Programme Committee, Royal Meteorological Society sponsored International Conference on ‘Mesoscale Meteorology’ held in 1984
• 1982       Leader of a 10 person ‘Morning Glory’ experiment
• 1982       Joint organizer of a combined Bureau of Meteorology/CSIRO/Monash University field experiment to study ‘Southerly Buster’ wind squalls in New South Wales
• 1984       Leader of an 11 person ‘Morning Glory’ experiment
• 1984-88   Member, Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Atmospheric Sciences
• 1984       Member of the organizing committee for the Phase III Experiment of the Australian Cold Fronts Research Programme and participant in the experiment
• 1985-86   Vice-chairman, Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society
• 1985       Joint leader of field experiment to study ‘southerly buster’ cold fronts
• 1985       Member of the organizing committee for the proposed ‘Australian Monsoon Experiment’ (AMEX)
• 1986       Joint leader of the Phase I AMEX Experiment in Weipa
• 1987       Participated in the Phase II AMEX Experiment and the Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment (EMEX) in Darwin
• 1987       Chairman, Australian Branch, Royal Meteorological Society
• 1988       Joint leader of Southerly Change Experiment (SOUCHEX) held in New Zealand (Jan.-Feb.)
• 1988       President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (Jan.-April)
• 1988       Leader, Preliminary Cold Fronts Experiment in Northern Australia (Sept.)
• 1990       Participant, Tropical Cyclone Motion (TCM90) (Aug.-Sept.)
• 1991       Participant, Tropical Experiment in Mexico (TEXMEX) (July)
• 1991-      Member, IAMAP International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology, Working Group on Mesoscale Meteorology
• 1991       Joint leader of the Central Australian Fronts Experiment (CAFE) (Sept.-Oct.)
• 1992-95 Member, American Meteorological Society Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones
• 1992       Guest Editor of Volume 40 of the Australian Meteorological Magazine: The R.H. Clarke Memorial Volume
• 1994       Visiting Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, NT Regional Office, Darwin (Jan.-Feb.)
• 1994       Organized the Severe Thunderstorms Experiment (SETEX), wich was carried out in southern Bavaria and eastern Switzerland
• 1994       Visiting Scientist, NOAA National Hurricane Laboratory, Miami (Aug. - Sept.)
• 1994-97   Member, German Research Council (DFG) Senatskommission für Atmosphärische Wissenschaften
• 1995       Session Convener, IUGG Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA (July)
• 1995       Member, Scientific Steering Committee for the Mesoscale Alpine Project (MAP)
• 1995       Visiting Scientist, NOAA National Hurricane Laboratory, Miami (Aug. - Sept.)
• 1996       Director of NATO Advanced Study Institute on "The physics and parameterization of moist atmospheric convection" held in Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany (Aug.)
• 1996       Joint leader of the Central Australian Fronts Experiment (CAFE96) (Sep.-Oct.)
• 1997       Session Convenor, IAMAP Meeting, Melbourne, Australia (Jul.)
• 1997       Organized an ONR-sponsored workshop on "Tropical cyclone - trough interaction" held in Bad Tölz, Bavaria (Aug.)
• 1997       Organized an International workshop on "The dynamics of dry, convectively-influenced atmospheric flows” held in Almagro, Spain (Jul.)
• 1998       Visiting Scientist, NOAA National Hurricane Laboratory, Miami (Aug. - Sep.)
• 1998       Joint leader of the Central Australian Fronts Experiment (CAFE98) (Sep.-Oct.)
• 1998/9     Visiting Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne and Darwin (3 months)
• 2002        Joint leader of the Gulf Lines Experiment (GLEX) (Sep.-Oct.)
• 2003/4     Visiting Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin (2 months)
• 2004       Visiting Scientist, NOAA, Hurricane Research Division, Miami (1 months)
• 2004       Member, Organizing Committee for the Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud experiment (TWP-ICE)
• 2005       Visiting Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin (2 months)
• 2005       Joint leader of the Gulf Lines Experiment II (GLEX-II) (Nov.-Dec.)
• 2006       Participated in the TWP-ICE Experiment in Darwin (Jan.-Feb.)
• 2007       Visiting Scientist, NOAA National Hurricane Laboratory, Miami (Aug/Sep)
• 2008       Visiting Scientist, US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (Feb)
• 2008       Participant in the Tropical Cyclone Experiment (TCM2008) in Guam (August)
• 2008       Visiting Scientist, NOAA National Hurricane Laboratory, Miami (Aug/Sep)
• 2009       Visiting Scientist, US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (Feb)
  

(g) Conferences and Seminars

• I have been invited as a seminar speaker at many universities and other institutions in Australia, the USA, UK and Europe and south-east Asia. Some invited lectures are:
• 1972   Invited participant, IUGG/American Meteorological Society Conference on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Bounder, Co
• 1975   Invited speaker at EUROMECH Conference on Rotating Fluids, London
• 1977   Invited speaker at a Royal Meteorological Society Workshop on Fronts, Melbourne
• 1978   Invited speaker, 3rd US Conference on Wind Engineering, Florida
• 1981   Invited speaker, IUTAM/IUGG Conference on Intense Atmospheric Vortices (Reading, England)
• 1983   Invited speaker, Fourth US Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability, Boston, USA
• 1984   Invited speaker, International Conference on Mesoscale Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
• 1992   Invited speaker, ICS/WMO Conference on Tropical Cyclone Disasters, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
• 1998   The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Clarke Lecture
• 2002 Invited speaker, 40 Year Celebration Meeting, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
• 2003   Invited speaker, Royal Meteorological Society Specialist Meeting on Density Currents in the Atmosphere and Oceans. University of Leeds
• 2003   Invited speaker, Workshop on Tropical Meteorology, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
• 2003   Invited speaker, Symposium on Atmospheric and Oceanic Vortices, IUGG Special Assembly, Sapporo, Japan
• 2006   Invited speaker, Royal Meteorological Society Meeting on Hurricanes (15 March)
• 2007   Invited lecturer at the University of California Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics workshop on “Small Scale and Extreme Events: the Hurricane” in Los Angeles (Feb)
• 2007   Invited lecturer at the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study Summer School held in Herrenwies, Schwarzwald, Germany (Jul)
• 2007   Invited lectures at a Summer School on Mesoscale Meteorology held at the University of Helsinki field site in Hyyttiälä, Finland. (Aug)
• 2008   Invited lecture course on the “The Dynamical Meteorology of the Tropics” to the Thai Meteorological Department, Bangkok (July/Aug)
• 2009   Invited lecture on Tropical cyclones at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Apr)2009   Invited lecturer at a Workshop on Multi-scale processes in the Atmosphere in Banff, Canada (Apr)
  

(h) Publications

List of my publications

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