ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

www.complexsystems.net.au
Dr John Finnigan

Dr John Finnigan

 
Chief Research Scientist CSIRO Atmospheric Research. Director, CSIRO Centre for Complex System Science.

Address: Dr John Finnigan
CSIRO Centre for Complex System Science
GPO Box 3023
Canberra ACT 2601

Street Address:
Pye Laboratory
Clunies Ross Street,
Black Mountain ACT 2600




Phone: +61 2 6246 5552
Fax: +61 2 6246 5560
Email: john.finnigan@csiro.au
Research Node: CSIRO/CSS
 
 

Role in Network

COSNet Management Committee Member - Director
CSIRO/CSS
Champion Complex Physical Systems
Government - Researcher


COSNet Research Themes

    1. Irreversibility and Emergence in Nonequilibrium Systems
    2. Turbulence and Coherent Structures, Control and Computation
    3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
    4. Network Theory
    5. Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

COSNet Application Areas

    1. Complex Physical Systems
    2. Complex Biological Systems
    3. Complex Computational Systems
    4. Complex Socio-Economic Systems
 

Research Topics

Currently 50% of my time is devoted to research with effort split between the fundamentals of atmospheric surface layer flow and its impact on eddy-flux measurements applied to the global carbon cycle and low dimensional modeling of turbulent large structure in the atmospheric boundary layer. The other 50% is devoted to leading the CSIRO Centre, which will have project funding of $6m+ in 2002-2003 with that amount increasing to $12m pa by 2006.

 

Publications

1. Finnigan, JJ, R Clement, Y Malhi, R. Leuning, H A Cleugh (2002) A Re-evaluation of long-term Flux Measurement Techniques Part 1: Averaging and Coordinate Rotation. Boundary Layer Meteorol. (In Press)
2. Finnigan, J.J. (2000) Turbulence in Plant Canopies. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 2000 32:519-571
3. Finnigan, J.J. and Shaw, R.H. (2000) Turbulence in waving wheat: an Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis of the large-eddy motion. Boundary-Layer Meteorol.96, 211-255
4. Finnigan, J.J. (1999) A comment on the paper by Lee (1998) "On micrometeorological observations of surface-air exchange over tall vegetation". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 97, 55-64
5. Raupach, M.R., Finnigan, J.J., and Brunet, Y. (1996). Coherent eddies in vegetation canopies - the mixing layer analogy. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 78, 351-382.  

Awards and Distinctions

1978 Visiting Research Fellowship, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
1978 CSIRO Postdoctoral Studentship, concurrent with CIRES Fellowship
1977 TM Cherry Prize of Australian Mathematical Society

Research Higher Degree Supervision