Director of Research
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
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.
Response of tropical convection in atmospheric circulation using statistical methods
Earth observation metrology, remote sensing, climate data
Clouds, Machine learning, Climate feedbacks, Atmospheric science, Climate uncertainty
Climate change impacts on wildfire, wildfire emissions, climate-carbon cycle feedbacks
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
Solar variability
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 Colin Harpham
Downscaling precipitation using statistical models and artificial neural networks, stochastic weather generators
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
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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.