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Director
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Professor Tim Osborn
Professor of Climate Science and Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit
Climate observations, climate modelling, climate variability, precipitation extremes and drought, palaeoclimate, tree-rings, global temperature changes, future climate projections
Academic Staff
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Professor Manoj Joshi
Professor of Climate Dynamics
Climate forcing and response, stratosphere and climate, planetary climates.
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Professor David Thompson
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.
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Dr Ben Webber
Associate Professor in Climate Science
Climate Dynamics, Climate Variability, Climate Change, Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction, Ocean-Ice interaction, Autonomous Ocean Observations.
Research staff
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Dr Matthew Jones
Climate change impacts on wildfire, wildfire emissions, climate-carbon cycle feedbacks
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Dr Natasha Senior
Response of tropical convection in atmospheric circulation using statistical methods
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Dr Daniel Skinner
Climate modelling, Teleconnections, Decadal variability, South Pacific hydroclimate
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Dr Sarah Wilson Kemsley
Clouds, Machine learning, Climate feedbacks, Atmospheric science, Climate uncertainty
Support Staff
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PhD Students
Erik Hartin
Art for action: Climate visuals to engage the public and move policy-makers
Siyu Meng
Assessing the impact of phytoplankton on sea surface temperature: processes and feedbacks driven by climate variability and change
Aparna Reghunathan
Understanding and reducing biases in coupled climate models in the Indian Ocean region
Jane Thurgood
How can we characterise extreme droughts for water management under climate change in Norfolk?
Xiang Weng
Assessing the effect of changes in weather extremes and driving forces on tropospheric ozone in China.
Qianyu Zha
Assessing flooding risks in the UK under climate change using hydrological models
Honorary Professors
Professor Richard Seager
Climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Professor David Viner
Independent climate change specialist. Previously held senior climate change roles at Natural England, British Council, Mott MacDonald, Green Investment Bank and AECOM.
Visiting fellows
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Dr Nick Brooks
Adaptation to past climate change and to future climate change
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Professor Manola Brunet
Climatic data archaeology and analysis of climate variability and change
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Mr Ian (Harry) Harris
Oservational gridded climate datasets, data processing and analysis, programming.
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Mr David Lister
Meteorological time-series throughout the instrumental period. Climatic variability and its effects.
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Dr Peer Nowack
Machine learning, climate sensitivity, atmospheric chemistry, Earth system modelling, regional climate change.
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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, quantification of biases in climate models, regional atmospheric modelling, polar meteorology, sea ice
Dr Clare Goodess
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 Emily Wallis
Early instrumental observations of temperature change and the influence of volcanic eruptions
Dr Fiona Williamson
Extremes, History, Instrumental, SE Asia, Urban heat island
Sally Wilkinson
RECLAIM project (RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine Data)
Previous directors
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Professor Phil Jones OBE (also a CRU Emeritus Professor)
CRU Director 1998-2016
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Professor Hubert Lamb
CRU Director 1971-1977
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Professor Jean Palutikof
CRU Director 1998-2004
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