Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Climatic Research Unit is widely recognised as one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
Consisting of a staff of around fifteen research scientists and students, the Unit has developed a number of the data sets widely used in climate research, including the global temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate system, as well as statistical software packages and climate models.
The aim of the Climatic Research Unit is to improve scientific understanding in three areas:
- past climate history and its impact on humanity;
- the course and causes of climate change during the instrumental period;
- prospects for the future.
The Unit undertakes both pure and applied research, sponsored almost entirely by external contracts and grants from academic funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental organisations, commerce and industry.
Alongside its research activities, the Unit has an educational role through its contribution to formal teaching with the School of Environmental Sciences (most notably, the MSc in Climate Change) and various forms of in-service training including postgraduate education. It is regarded as an authoritative source of information on both the science and policy aspects of climate change by the media and maintains a high public profile.
The staff of the Unit have an enviable publication record, contributing to both peer-review and popular journals as well as editing various newsletters and bulletins.
The Climatic Research Unit is part of the School of Environmental Sciences with close links to other research groups within the department such as the Tyndall Centre. The Unit undertakes collaborative research with institutes throughout the world on a diverse range of topics and is coordinating or contributing to a number of networking activities.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Trevor Davies
- School of Environmental Sciences - Emeritus Professor
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Member
- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences - Member
- Climatic Research Unit - Member
- ClimateUEA - Member
Person: Honorary, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member
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Nicole Forstenhäusler
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Senior Research Associate
- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences - Member
- Climatic Research Unit
- Environmental Social Sciences - Member
Person: Research & Analogous, Research Group Member
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Amee Gollop
- School of Environmental Sciences - Senior Research Associate
- Climatic Research Unit - Member
Person: Other related - academic, Research Group Member
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FORecasting high-impact Weather And extreme Rainfall Drivers and dynamics for Southeast Asia (FORWARDS)
Matthews, A., Webber, B. & Senior, N.
1/04/24 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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A multi-method assessment of extreme drought for water resources management
1/02/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Training
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Abrupt ending of the Madden–Julian Oscillation by convectively coupled Kelvin wave precipitation leaves a swath of flooding across Indonesia
Senior, N. V., Matthews, A. J., Webber, B. G. M., Paski, J. A. I., Nuryanto, D. E., Jones, R. W., Permana, D. S. & Febriyanti, A. H., 29 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. e4997.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx
Hsu, A., Jones, M. W., Thurgood, J. R., Smith, A. J. P., Carmenta, R., Abatzoglou, J. T., Anderson, L. O., Clarke, H., Doerr, S. H., Fernandes, P. M., Kolden, C. A., Santín, C., Strydom, T., Le Quéré, C., Ascoli, D., Castellnou, M., Goldammer, J. G., Guiomar, N. R. G. N., Kukavskaya, E. A., Rigolot, E., & 27 others , 1 Jul 2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 1083.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally
Abatzoglou, J., Jones, M., Kolden, C., Cullen, A., Sadegh, M. & Williams, E., 14 Mar 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Update of: The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction
Andela, N. (Creator) & Jones, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 31 May 2024
Dataset
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Idealised baroclinic eddy forced by wind stress
Wilder, T. (Creator), Zhai, X. (Supervisor), Joshi, M. (Supervisor) & Munday, D. R. (Supervisor), American Meteorological Society, 2022
https://github.com/thomaswilder/jpo_eddy-scripts
Dataset
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UKCP18 RCM climate projections bias-corrected using non-parametric quantile mapping: precipitation and temperature
Zha, Q. (Creator), Reyniers, N. (Creator), Addor, N. (Creator), Osborn, T. (Creator), He, H. (Creator) & Forstenhäusler, N. (Creator), Zenodo, 7 Aug 2023
Dataset
Prizes
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Fellow of Americal Meteorological Society
Jones, Philip (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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WTW Research Network Team Expert Advisor (Wildfire Risk)
Matthew Jones (Advisor)
1 Jul 2025 → 30 Jun 2026Activity: Consultancy
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Journal of Pyrogeography (Journal)
Matthew Jones (Editor-in-Chief)
1 Jul 2025 → 31 Dec 2026Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role
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Wallace-pARCs Database
Jeff Price (Contributor) & Nicole Forstenhaeusler (Contributor)
2025 → …Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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There’s growing evidence of possible life on other planets – here’s why you should still be sceptical
15/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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2024: a record-breaking watershed year for the global climate
10/01/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: UEA Press Release
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Global CO2 emissions from forest fires increase by 60 per cent
17/10/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: UEA Press Release