Media enquiries
For the past 40 years scientists from the Climatic Research Unit have featured in the international media highlighting the latest scientific developments in the field of climate change. Please direct all media enquiries to the UEA media centre.
In 2009 and 2011, stolen CRU data and emails were published online. Details of the independent inquiries into the Climategate affair and all related submissions, statements, corrections and reports can be found on the CRU statements page on the UEA website.
News and events
Observing and Explaining Climate Change
Tuesday 7 June, 16:00-18:00
CRU’s work to produce a record of how the world’s temperature was changing began in 1978 and reached a particular milestone with the creation of the first combined...
CRU’s work to produce a record of how the world’s temperature was changing began in 1978 and reached a particular milestone with the creation of the first combined...
Climate Dynamics
Tuesday 28 June, 16:30-17:30
CRU’s work has always included research into the dynamical processes that govern the expression of climate change on a regional scale and on the hydrological cycle.
CRU’s work has always included research into the dynamical processes that govern the expression of climate change on a regional scale and on the hydrological cycle.
50 Years of UEA's Climatic Research Unit
Professor Tim Osborn, Research Director of CRU: In 2022 we celebrate UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) turning 50! I am looking forward to a diverse range of exciting celebratory events to...
Back Hubert Lamb Centenary Conference
The Climatic Research Unit, in association with the Royal Meteorological Society, will be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Hubert Lamb, founder of the CRU and pioneer climate change...
Lamb Memorial prize awarded to Chris Donaldson
Congratulations to Chris Donaldson for winning the Hubert H. Lamb Memorial Prize for 2013. Chris's dissertation "Private flood mitigation and individual motivation: an analysis of a flood-prone...
Moira Lamb
It is with deep sadness that members of the Climatic Research Unit, present and past, have learned of the death of Moira Lamb, the widow of the CRU's founder, Hubert...
Avoiding overconfidence in climate projections
Adapting to the effects of man-made climate change in this century requires a careful assessment of the uncertainties inherent in model projections of any related impacts. In a paper out in Nature...
Winter is coming: British weather set to become more unsettled
British winters are becoming increasingly volatile due to extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic according to scientists from the University of Sheffield and the University of East...
New global temperature visualisations
Our global-temperature record A new set of visualisations of our global temperature datasets are now available, updated each month. They show temperature changes from our...
Research reveals ‘topsy turvy’ ocean circulation on distant planets
The salt levels of oceans on distant Earth-like planets could have a major effect on their climates – according to new research from the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University...
Poor countries to bear brunt of climate change
Many of the world’s poorest countries are expected to experience daily heat extremes due to climate change sooner than wealthier nations – according to research from an international...
Tim Osborn to take over leadership of CRU
Prof Timothy Osborn has been announced as the next Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit, UEA’s world-leading climate research centre. Read this full article
Supporting economic assessments of climate change adaptation
An ‘Insight’ on Sourcing and Using Climate Change Information for Economic Assessments of Adaptation written by Clare Goodess is available as part of the newly-launched ECONADAPT Tool Box. Read...
Vacancy: Lecturer in Climate Science
The Climatic Research Unit currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Climate Science. Full details and the online application form are available on the UEA Human Resources Department...
Back Professor Keith Briffa
We are deeply saddened by the death of Emeritus Professor Keith Briffa, who died peacefully on Sunday 29 October 2017. Without doubt, Keith’s greatest impact was in the field of...
Back 2017 likely to be third warmest year on record
2017 is likely to be one of the warmest years for global average surface temperature – according to research from the University of East Anglia. Read this full article at: ...
UEA academics recognised in RMets Awards
Two academics from the School of Environmental Sciences have been recognised for their excellence in meteorology in the 2017 Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) Awards ...
Prof Phil Jones one of the world's most highly cited researchers
Ten Norwich Research Park researchers have been named in the top 1% of the world’s most highly cited researchers including Prof Phil Jones from the Climatic Research Unit. Read more at: ...
Back Drying of regions with Mediterranean-type climates
Mediterranean-type climates have mild, wet winters and dry summers that are warm or hot. They occur in Mediterranean Europe but also on the western edges of four other continents. New...
New CRU TS v4 Paper
A new paper describing CRU TS v4 has been published in Nature Sci. Data Full announcement
New paper: why is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) associated with wet/dry conditions over northern & southern Europe?
Why is the NAO associated with wet/dry conditions over northern & southern Europe? The common answer that the storm track shifts and supplies more or less moisture to each region is wrong –...
Influence of Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature patterns on Asian Summer Climate
Are the linkages between Atlantic variability and South/East Asia climate sensitive to the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly patterns in either the North Atlantic or elsewhere? ...
ClimateUEA website goes live
The website for ClimateUEA is now live, at https://www.uea.ac.uk/climate
Major update to HadCRUT global temperature dataset
The Met Office and the University of East Anglia (UEA) are today announcing a series of key improvements to their long-running global temperature dataset, HadCRUT Read this full article
2020 ends Earth's warmest 10 years on record
https://www.uea.ac.uk/news/-/article/2020-ends-earth-s-warmest-10-years-on-record
Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Response to the Extreme Positive Indian Ocean Dipole of 2019
What contributed to the dry Indian summer monsoon in June but still excess seasonal monsoon rainfall in 2019? Our new paper in the Geophysical Research Letters tries to answer this. The...
CRU research being presented at vEGU 2021
CRU research will be presented in many sessions at the virtual EGU General Assembly 2021. Here are some of the research presentations with links to their abstracts. There is a link to vEGU2021...
Selecting Markov chain orders for generating daily precipitation series across different Köppen climate regimes
Our paper in International Journal of Climatology addresses the use of Markov chain models for generating daily precipitation series on a global scale. Whilst it is accepted that first-order...