Rate My Professor Christian Jakob

Professor Jakob's research focuses on the development and evaluation of processes crucial to the energy and water cycles in global atmospheric models, tropical convection, and weather-climate interactions. He co-chairs the World Climate Research Programme’s Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity and has held key international roles, including co-chair of the WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (2012-2017), lead of the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (2008-2012), and chair of the GEWEX Modelling and Prediction Panel (2007-2010). He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group 1. His awards include the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric Sciences Section Ascent Award (2016), Fellowship of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (2018), the AMOS Morton Medal (2019), and the Monash Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Research Team of the Year (shared, 2024). Key publications are 'Heavy summer rainfall in southeastern Australia' (Henderson et al., 2025, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society), 'Stormy Subtropics and Stratiform South: Radar-Based Classification and Analysis of Australian Rainfall Events' (Bowden et al., 2025, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres), 'Weather systems associated with synoptic variability in the moist margin' (Robinson et al., 2025, Weather and Climate Dynamics), and 'Australian Summer Monsoon: Reanalyses Versus Climate Models in Moist Static Energy Budget Evolution' (Mohanty et al., 2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres).