Lance Leslie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lance M. Leslie (* 1945 ) is an Australian applied mathematician and meteorologist.

Leslie studied mathematics at the University of Sydney with a bachelor's degree in 1966 (in the same year he received the University Medal) and a master's degree in 1968 and received a PhD in mathematics from Monash University in 1970 (On rotating flows). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley . He then worked for the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia, where he became Senior Principal Research Scientist in 1971. In 1994 he became a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales , where he became the founding director of the Center for Environmental Modeling and Prediction (CEMAP), which later became part of the Climate Change Research Center (CCRC) where he has been 2011 Visiting Professorial Fellow. Since 2002 he has been Robert E. Lowry Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma , where he has been George Lynn Cross Research Professor from 2008 .

He has also been Adjunct Professor at Curtin University since 2007 and has been associated with the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) since 2012.

In 1976, 1979 and 1981 he was visiting scholar at Imperial College London and in 1987 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Space Science and Engineering Center, SSEC).

He deals with numerical hydrodynamics specifically for climate modeling (coupled models of land, ocean and atmosphere) and weather forecast (local weather forecast in Australia, sandstorms, forecast of wind erosion, tornadoes), with applications to severe storms and tropical weather. Most recently, he has also been involved in modeling landslides triggered by heavy rainfall, as well as other modeling using models from rheology such as glacier movement and analyzing the effect of ocean waves on the breakup of tabular icebergs in the Antarctic.

In 1994 he received the Max Planck Research Award .

In 1979 he received a BA from the University of Melbourne .

Fonts (selection)

  • with K. Puri, NE Davidson, LW Logan: The BMRC tropical limited area model, Aust. Met. Mag., Vol. 40, 1992, pp. 81-104.
  • with GS Dietachmayer: Regional Numerical Weather Prediction in Australia: An Historical Perspective, Aust. Met Mag., Vol. 41, 1992, pp. 61-78.
  • with Y. Shao: Wind erosion prediction over the Australian continent, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 102, 1997, pp. 30091-30106
  • Y. Shao et al. a .: Northeast Asian dust storms: Real-time numerical prediction and validation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 108, 2003, p. 2003
  • with SM Verbout, HE Brooks, DM Schultz: Evolution of the US tornado database: 1954-2003, Weather and Forecasting, Volume 21, 2006, pp. 86-93
  • with AF Bennett, BS Chua: Generalized inversion of a global numerical weather prediction model, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Volume 60, 1996, p. 165
  • with Klaus Fraedrich : A new general circulation model: Formulation and preliminary results, Climate Dynamics, Volume 13, 1997, pp. 35–43
  • with RF Abbey, GJ Holland: Tropical cyclone predictability, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Volume 64, 1997, pp. 223-232

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lance Leslie in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used


personal data
SURNAME Leslie, Lance
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leslie, Lance Maxwell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian meteorologist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1945