Introduction

Dr. John Leonard McBride is an Australian tropical-cyclone expert. His research focuses on the climatology and variability of tropical cyclones, with emphasis on land-falling rainfall, rapid intensification, and basin-scale differences in cyclone behaviour. He has developed quality-control methods for multi-decadal cyclone archives and has contributed to understanding the physical mechanisms that govern cyclone life cycles. 

Visiting details

Dr McBride visited from 7 June to 4 September 2024 under the Shanghai Typhoon Collaborative Research Fund. The three-month stay was designed to (i) co-develop a homogenised, quality-controlled data set for land-falling typhoon precipitation; (ii) deliver a basin-intercomparison framework that links western-North-Pacific typhoons to their Atlantic and Indian-Ocean counterparts; and (iii) mentor early-career scientists on event-selection algorithms, extreme-value statistics and cyclone-climate feedbacks. The visit also served to formalise a long-term cooperation model that includes joint supervision of PhD students, reciprocal short-course exchanges and real-time data sharing ahead of the 2025–2027 typhoon seasons.