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David Arfon Jones is a senior climatologist at the Australian
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. He initially studied mathematics and chemistry at university but changed to atmospheric studies. Jones obtained his PhD in
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from the
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, Australia in 1995. He subsequently completed the
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in
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in 1995 at the Bureau of Meteorology. In 1995 Jones commenced work in the Climate Analysis Section of the Australian National Climate Centre, focusing on the automation of climate monitoring using objective analysis techniques. Subsequently he moved to the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre in 1997 undertaking research on the variability and change of Australia's climate. Jones became the supervisor of Climate Analysis at the Bureau of Meteorology in 2002. In this role he has promoted the automation of analysis, monitoring and forecasting products and the introduction of a range of innovative climate monitoring activities, with a focus on encouraging the interpretation of
climate variability Climate variability includes all the variations in the climate that last longer than individual weather events, whereas the term climate change only refers to those variations that persist for a longer period of time, typically decades or more ...
in the context of a rapidly changing climate. Owing to the continued misrepresentation of climate change in the Australian media Jones has written a number of public pieces correcting or explaining climate change including in
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,Our hot, dry future
/ref> and in articles for the Australian Science Media Centre. In 2006 Jones was awarded the
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Achievement Medallion.


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Australian Climate Change and Variability
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