Dr Andreas Schiller applies his extensive experience in large-scale ocean physics and modelling to help deliver benefits to Australia’s climate-sensitive industries.
Current activities
Dr Schiller leads the Changing Oceans theme, which covers the ocean process and prediction work within the Wealth from Oceans Flagship.
This theme seeks to exploit knowledge of climate variability and change in the oceans to:
Background
After completing his Doctorate in Germany, Dr Schiller moved to the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg where he worked on climate change issues.
Dr Schiller leads the Our Changing Oceans theme, which covers the ocean process and prediction work within the Wealth from Oceans Flagship.
Dr Schiller has held the following positions within CSIRO:
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member of the CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research Science Directions Team, which is responsible for strategic planning in the division
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CSIRO Sector Component Coordinator for Climate Variability
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CSIRO representative on the Steering Committee of the High Performance Computing Centre’s research and development program - a joint program between:
Dr Schiller’s expertise in large-scale ocean physics and modelling ranges from climate research to ocean forecasting.
He headed CSIRO’s involvement in the initial phase of the BLUElink> project, which delivered the first operational ocean forecasting system in the Southern Hemisphere.
The BLUElink> project combines state-of-the art ocean observing systems - satellite altimetry, satellite SST, autonomous Argo floats - with the latest modelling and data assimilation technology to estimate the three-dimensional ocean circulation around Australia.
Dr Schiller, in collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology, also led the scientific development and implementation of the first operational coupled ocean-atmosphere model for seasonal climate prediction in Australia - the Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia (POAMA) project.
Predictions from the POAMA model enable the agricultural sector and other industries susceptible to climate variations to better prepare for climate variability.
Since its implementation at the Bureau of Meteorology more accurate seasonal climate predictions are being made and used by the National Climate Centre in its monthly outlooks. Predictions from this model enable the agricultural sector and other industries susceptible to climate variations to better prepare for climate variability.
Academic qualifications
Educated and trained in Germany, Dr Schiller has been awarded:
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a Diploma, the German equivalent of a Master of Science
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a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1993 .
His thesis was on data assimilation in a large-scale ocean circulation model.
Achievements
Dr Schiller maintains his broader scientific interests by supervising a PhD student and a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Dr Schiller is a member of several international bodies, including:
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the Steering Team of the International Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)
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the Asian/Australian Monsoon Panel of the World Climate Research Programme’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CLIVAR) Project
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the Pacific Islands Global Ocean Observation System (PI-GOOS).
Dr Schiller has also published about 80 research papers, reports, book chapters and invited conference papers on topics such as:
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the impact of ocean tides on large-scale ocean circulation and water-mass properties in the area of the Indonesian Throughflow
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the design of an ocean-observing system for the Indian Ocean
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accurate simulation and interpretation of intraseasonal oscillations (ISOs) in the ocean (relevant to El Niño phenomenon and monsoon rains over India)
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the stability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation on climate change time scales.
Read more about the Wealth from Oceans Flagship.
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