Prof. Douglas Christie

Research School of Earth Sciences

The Australian National University, Australia

Visiting Fellow

Email: Douglas.Christie@anu.edu.au

Qualifications

1991 Ph.D., Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences

1964 M.A., University of Toronto, Department of Physics

1962 B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, Department of Engineering Physics

Publications (selected)

1. Christie, D.R., Kennett, B.L.N. and Tarlowski, C. (2007). Advances in infrasound technology with application to nuclear explosion monitoring. Proc. 29th Monitoring Research Review, Denver, Colorado, 825-838.
2. Christie, D.R., Vivas Veloso, J.A., Campus, P., Bell, M., Hoffmann, T., Langlois, A., Martysevich, P., Demirovic, E. and Carvalo, J. (2001). Detection of atmospheric nuclear explosions: the infrasound component of the International Monitoring System. Kerntechik, 66, 96-101.
3. Brown, D.J. and Christie, D.R. (1998). Fully nonlinear solitary waves in continuously stratified Boussinesq fluids. Phys. Fluids, 10, 2569-2586.
4. Menhofer, A. Smith, R.K., Reeder, M.J. and Christie, D.R. (1997). “Morning Glory” disturbances and the environment in which they propagate. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1712-1725.
5. Reeder, M.J., Christie, D.R., Smith, R.K. and Grimshaw, R. (1995). Interacting Morning Glories over Northern Australia. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1165-1171.
6. Christie, D.R. (1992). The Morning Glory of the Gulf of Carpentaria: a paradigm for non-linear waves in the lower atmosphere. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 41, 21-60.
7. Doviak, R.J., Chen, S.S. and Christie, D.R. (1991). A thunderstorm generated solitary wave observation compared with theory for nonlinear waves in sheared fluids. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 87-111.
8. Christie, D.R. (1989). Long nonlinear waves in the lower atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1462-1491.
9. Christie, D.R., Muirhead, K.J. and Clarke, R.H. (1981). Solitary waves in the lower atmosphere. Nature, 293, 46-49.
10. Christie, D.R., Muirhead, K.J. and Hales, A.L. (1978). On solitary waves in the atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 35, 805-825.
11. Christie, D.R. and Campus, P. (2010). The IMS Network: Design and establishment of infrasound stations. Chapter 2 (invited) in Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies, Le Pichon, Blanc, E. and Hauchecorne, A. (Editors), Springer, Heidelberg, 29-75.
12. Campus, P. and Christie, D.R. (2010). Worldwide Observations of Infrasonic Waves. Chapter 6 (invited) in Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies, Le Pichon, Blanc, E. and Hauchecorne, A. (Editors), Springer, Heidelberg, 185-234.

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