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Director of Research
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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, future climate scenarios
Academic Staff
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Professor Manoj Joshi
Professor of Climate Dynamics
Climate forcing and response, stratosphere and climate, planetary climates.
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
Lecturer in Climate Science
Climate Dynamics, Climate Variability, Climate Change, Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction, Ocean-Ice interaction, Autonomous Ocean Observations.
Research staff
Dr Amee Gollop
Impacts of Pacific Ocean warming trends
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Mr Ian (Harry) Harris
Development and maintenance of observational gridded climate datasets, data processing and analysis, programming.
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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
Nicole Forstenhaeusler
Global hydrological modelling of future flooding risk
Erik Hartin
Art for action: Climate visuals to engage the public and move policy-makers
Kyriaki Lekakou
Ocean drivers of Antarctic ice shelf melt and sea level rise
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?
Emily Wallis
Early instrumental observations of temperature change
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
Visiting Professors
Professor David Viner
Director, Green Investment Bank
Professor Richard Seager
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
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 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
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Dr Mansour Almazroui
Identifying climatic patterns of Saudi Arabia using large scale circulation data and the influence of teleconnection indices on the local climate
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Dr Jonathan Barichivich
Vegetation-climate interactions, drought and ecosystem responses
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Dr Pranab Deb
Climate dynamics, quantification of biases in climate models, regional atmospheric modelling, polar meteorology, sea ice
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Dr Clare Goodess
Regional climate change and projections/scenarios, extreme events, climate services
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Dr Kathleen Pribyl
Historical climatology, vulnerability of pre-industrial societies to environmental risk, early instrumental data
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Dr Satyaban Ratna
Climate variability, Indian summer monsoon, Dynamical downscaling, Extreme events
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 (also a CRU Emeritus Professor)
CRU Director 1998-2016
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Professor Hubert Lamb (1913-1997)
CRU Director 1971-1977
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Professor Jean Palutikof (also a CRU Visiting Fellow)
CRU Director 1998-2004
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