William Kininmonth

2004 William Kininmonth

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The Author

William Kininmonth has a career in meteorological science and policy spanning more than 40years. For more than a decade (1986 1998) he headed Australia s National Climate Centre withresponsibilities for managing the data archives, monitoring Australia s changing climate andadvising the Australian government on the extent and severity of climate extremes, including therecurring drought episodes of the 1990s.

William Kininmonth has extensive knowledge of global climatology, the climate system and theimpacts of climate extremes developed through more than two decades associated with the WorldMeteorological Organization. He was Australia s delegate to the WMO Commission for Climatology andmore recently has been a consultant for implementation of its programs. He coordinated thescientific and technical review for the United Nations Task Force on El Ni o following thedisastrous 1997 1998 event, has participated in WMO expert working groups and carried out trainingworkshops for climatologists from Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

As a member of Australia s delegations to the Second World Climate Conference (1990) and...