Director of Research |
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Professor of Climate Science and Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit climate observations, climate modelling, climate variability, precipitation extremes and drought, palaeoclimate, future climate scenarios |
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Academic Staff | |
| Professor of Climate Dynamics Climate forcing and response, stratosphere and climate, planetary climates. |  |
| Professor of Climate Change Science My research foci lie in the area of large-scale climate variability, with an emphasis on using observations to identify novel aspects of the climate system, and then using models to test hypotheses motivated by observations. | |
| Lecturer in Climate Science Climate Dynamics, Climate Variability, Climate Change, Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction, Ocean-Ice interaction, Autonomous Ocean Observations. |  |
Research staff | |
| Impacts of Pacific Ocean warming trends | |
| Development and maintenance of observational gridded climate datasets, data processing and analysis, programming. |  |
| Climate change impacts on wildfire, wildfire emissions, climate-carbon cycle feedbacks |  |
| Response of tropical convection in atmospheric circulation using statistical methods |  |
| Climate modelling, Teleconnections, Decadal variability, South Pacific hydroclimate |  |
| Earth observation metrology, remote sensing, climate data |  |
| Clouds, Machine learning, Climate feedbacks, Atmospheric science, Climate uncertainty |  |
Support Staff | |
| Mr Mike Salmon ISD Research Computing Services |  |
Postgraduate students | |
| How will the Urban Heat Island in Growing Cities Behave under Climate Change? | |
| Global hydrological modelling of future flooding risk | |
| Ocean drivers of Antarctic ice shelf melt and sea level rise Assessing the impact of phytoplankton on sea surface temperature: processes and feedbacks driven by climate variability and change | |
| Understanding and reducing biases in coupled climate models in the Indian Ocean region | |
| Hydrological modelling for studying past, present and future droughts in the east of England | |
| How can we characterise extreme droughts for water management under climate change in Norfolk? | |
| Early instrumental observations of temperature change | |
| Environmental data science, a machine learning approach to study the influence of climate change on extreme weather. | |
| Assessing the effect of changes in weather extremes and driving forces on tropospheric ozone in China. | |
| Assessing flooding risks in the UK under climate change using hydrological models | |
Visiting Professors | |
| Professor David Viner Director, Green Investment Bank | |
| Professor Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University | |
Visiting fellows | |
| Dr Nick Brooks Adaptation to past climate change and to future climate change |  |
| Professor Manola Brunet Climatic data archaeology and analysis of climate variability and change |  |
| Mr John Kington Climatic change and historical climatology: member of the EURO-CLIMHIST team reconstructing past circulation patterns; author "Climate and Weather" |  |
| Mr David Lister Meteorological time-series throughout the instrumental period. Climatic variability and its effects |  |
| Dr Tom Melvin Historical growth rates and changing climate sensitivity of boreal conifers |  |
| Machine learning, climate sensitivity, atmospheric chemistry, Earth system modelling, regional climate change. |  |
| Dr Clive Wilkinson RECLAIM project (RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine Data) |  |
Associate fellows | |
| Dr Mansour Almazroui Identifying climatic patterns of Saudi Arabia using large scale circulation data and the influence of teleconnection indices on the local climate |  |
| Dr Jonathan Barichivich Vegetation-climate interactions, drought and ecosystem responses |  |
| Dr Pranab Deb Climate dynamics, quantifiaction of biases in climate models, regional atmospheric modelling, polar meteorology, sea ice
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| Dr Nicolas de Silva Precipitation extremes, forecasting, aerosol indirect effects, convective self-aggregation |  |
| Regional climate change and projections/scenarios, extreme events, climate services |  |
| Dr Kathleen Pribyl Historical climatology, vulnerability of pre-industrial societies to environmental risk, early instrumental data |  |
| Dr Satyaban Ratna Climate variability, Indian summer monsoon, Dynamical downscaling, Extreme events |  |
| Dr Umakanth Uppara Monsoon dynamics and teleconnections under changing climate, global and regional climate modelling. |  |
| Dr Fiona Williamson Extremes, History, Instrumental, SE Asia, Urban heat island |  |
| Sally Wilkinson RECLAIM project (RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine Data) | |
Previous directors | |
| Professor Trevor Davies CRU Director 1993-1998 |  |
| Professor Phil Jones (also a CRU Emeritus Professor) CRU Director 1998-2016 EPrints Digital Repository |  |
| Professor Hubert Lamb (1913-1997) CRU Director 1971-1977 |  |
| Professor Jean Palutikof (also a CRU Visiting Fellow) CRU Director 1998-2004. Currently Director of NCCARF, Griffith University. |  |
| Professor Tom Wigley (also a CRU Visiting Fellow and Honorary Professor in ENV) CRU Director 1978-1993. Currently affiliated with University of Adelaide and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. |  |