Deo, Anil (Dr) - Research

Research interests

  • Climate science
  • Climate variability
  • Tropical meteorology (including tropical cyclones)
  • Cloud microphysics and precipitation
  • Satellite and radar remote sensing over the Australia-Pacific region

Publications / conferences

Publications

  1. Deo, A., Chand, S. S., Hennessy, K., Gooley, G., Hoeke, R., Gregory, R., Webb, L., Sheppard, M., and King, M., 2025. Economic Assessment of Tropical Cyclone (TC) Hazards over Vanuatu. Submitted to Climatic Change.
  2. Deo, A., Hally, B., Hennessy, K., Hoeke, R., Webb, L., Chand, S. S., Gregory, R., King, M., Eaton, N., and Talae, R., 2025. Economic impacts of recent and future coastal inundation for Vanuatu, submitted to International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
  3. Webb, L., King, M., Cannard, T., Deo, A., Hally, B., Brodie, S., Hoeke, R., Gregory, R., Sheppard, M., Hennessy, K., Chand, S., Sharma, K., Biswas, S., 2024. Assessment of climate hazards and associated sectoral impacts for Tuvalu under current and future conditions. CSIRO, Aspendale. EP2024-3853. https://doi.org/10.25919/vjh8-0a13
  4. Biswas, S., S. S. Chand, A. J. Dowdy, W. Wright, C. Foale, X. Zhao, and A. Deo, 2022: Statistical Calibration of Long-Term Reanalysis Data for Australian Fire Weather Conditions. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 61, 729–758, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0034.1.
  5. Deo, A., Chand, S.S., et al., 2022. Severe tropical cyclones over southwest Pacific Islands: economic impacts and implications for disaster risk management, Climatic Change 172, 38 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03391-2.
  6. Webb, Leanne; Nguyen, Kim; Deo, Anil; Grose, Michael; Gooley, Geoff. Climate-hazard based impacts on coffee production in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO; 2022. csiro:EP2021-0340. https://doi.org/10.25919/5prg-cx10
  7. Webb, Leanne; Hernaman, Vanessa; Chand, Savin; Deo, Anil; Gooley, Geoff. Climate change projections to inform black pearl production vulnerability in the Cook Islands. Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO; 2022. csiro:EP2021-0341. https://doi.org/10.25919/sr2h-8282
  8. Webb, Leanne; Nguyen, Kim; Chand, Savin; Deo, Anil; Grose, Michael. Climate-hazard based impacts for root crop production in Fiji. Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO; 2022. csiro:EP2021-0344. https://doi.org/10.25919/z6a4-8270
  9. Webb, Leanne; Nguyen, Kim; Chand, Savin; Deo, Anil; Gooley, Geoff. Climate-hazard based impacts on Cocoa production in Samoa. Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO; 2022. csiro:EP2021-0339. https://doi.org/10.25919/kszq-mw71
  10. Webb, Leanne; Hernaman, Vanessa; Rongo, Teina; Johnson, Mehau; Ngari, Arona; Kajtar, Jules; Chand, Savin; Deo, Anil; Grose, Michael. Assessing the potential impact from changing sea surface temperatures on pearl fisheries in the Cook Islands. In: 2020 PACIFIC OCEAN PACIFIC CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE; 27 to end of 30 Oct 2020; Samoa (online due to COVID19). csiro; 2020. 21. csiro:EP2021-0345. http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/428902?index=1
  11. Deo, A., Chand, S.S., et al., 2021. Tropical cyclone contribution to extreme rainfall over southwest Pacific Island nations, Climate Dynamics, 56, 3967-3993.
  12. Deo, A., Munchak, S.J., Walsh, K.J.E., 2018. Cross-validation of rainfall characteristics estimated from the TRMM PR, a combined PR-TMI algorithm and a C-POL ground-radar during the passage of tropical cyclone and non-tropical cyclone events over Darwin, Australia. Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Technology, 35, 2339–2358.
  13. Deo, A., Walsh, J.E., 2016. Evaluation of TRMM multi-satellite precipitation analysis during the passage of tropical cyclones over Fiji. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 66, 442-456.
  14. Deo, A., Walsh, K.J.E., 2016. Contrasting tropical cyclone and non-tropical cyclone-related rainfall drop size distribution at Darwin, Australia. Atmos. Res., 181, 81-94
  15. Deo, A., Walsh, K.J.E., Peltier, A., 2016. Evaluation of TMPA 3B42 precipitation estimates during the passage of tropical cyclones over New Caledonia. Theor. Appl. Climatol.1-17
  16. Kishore, A., Deo, A., Kumar, S., 2016. Upper atmospheric remote sensing using ELF – VLF lightning generated tweek and whistler sferics. The South Pacific Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, 34, 12 – 20
  17. Kumar, S., Deo, A., Ramachandran, V.,2009. Nighttime D-region equivalent electron density determined from tweek sferics observed in the South Pacific Region. Earth Planets Space, 61, 905 – 911
  18. Kumar, S., Deo, A., Kishore, A., Ramachandran, V., 2007. Whistlers observed at low-latitude ground-based VLF facility in Fiji. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys., 69, 1366 – 1376
  19. Ramachandran, V., Prakash, J. N., Deo, A., Kumar, S., 2007. Lightning stroke distance estimation from single station observation and validation with WWLLN data. Ann. Geophys., 25,1509 – 1517

Conferences and workshops

  1. Deo, A., Chand, S.S., 2018. Climatological Trends in Australian Fire-Weather Conditions using the Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) data from 1855 to 2014. Poster Presentation, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX) Annual Conference, 2018
  2. Deo, A., Walsh, J.E., 2016. Comparison of the rainfall drop size distribution parameter estimated using the TRMM PR, combined TMI-PR and C-POL ground radar during the passage of Tropical cyclones over Darwin, Australia. Poster Presentations, ARCCSS Annual Conference, 2016
  3. Deo, A., Walsh, K.J.E., 2015. Contrasting tropical cyclone and non-tropical cyclone-related rainfall drop size distribution at Darwin, Australia. Poster Presentation, AMOS Workshop, 2015
  4. Deo, A., Walsh, K.J.E., Peltier, A., 2014. Evaluation of TMPA 3B42 precipitation estimates during the passage of tropical cyclones over New Caledonia. Oral Presentation, ARCCSS Annual Conference,2014
  5. Kumar, S., Deo, A., Kishore, A., Ramachandran, V., 2006. Probing the nighttime atmosphere using lightning generated sferics recorded in the South Pacific region. Presented in the 2nd VERSIM Workshop