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.
Network
Profiles
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Trevor Davies
- School of Environmental Sciences - Emeritus Professor
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences - Member
- Climatic Research Unit - Member
Person: Honorary, Research Group Member
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Nicole Forstenhaeusler
- School of Environmental Sciences
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- Climatic Research Unit
- Environmental Social Sciences - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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Pacific Rainfall over Millennial Scales (PROMS)
Joshi, M., Matthews, A. & Osborn, T.
Natural Environment Research Council
1/08/22 → 31/07/25
Project: Research
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FORecasting for Southeast Asia (FORSEA) – Follow On
Matthews, A., Webber, B. & Senior, N.
1/04/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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A machine learning approach to quantify meteorological drivers of ozone pollution in China from 2015 to 2019
Weng, X., Forster, G. & Nowack, P., 29 Jun 2022, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 22, 12, p. 8385-8402 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia
Hantemirov, R. M., Corona, C., Guillet, S., Shiyatov, S. G., Stoffel, M., Osborn, T., Melvin, T., Gorlanova, L., Kukarskih, V., Surkov, A., von Arx, G. & Fonti, P., 5 Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Communications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engineering data-driven solutions for future mobility: perspectives and challenges
Tuncer, D., Babacan, O., Guiazon, R., Ali, H. A., Conway, J., Kern, S., Moreno, A. T., Peel, M., Pereira, A., Assad, N., Franceschini, G., Gjerull, M., Hardisty, A., Marwa, I., Lopez, B. A., Shalev, A., Tambua, C. DC., Damayanti, H., Frapart, P., Lepoutre, S. & 1 others, , 15 Mar 2022, online: arXiv Computers and Society, p. 1-49.Research output: Working paper
Datasets
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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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INTEGRATE: climate model simulations data to study the Asian climate response to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) using the Intermediate General Circulation Model version 4 (IGCM4)
Bishoyi Ratna, S. (Creator), Osborn, T. (Contributor) & Joshi, M. (Contributor), Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), 25 Feb 2020
DOI: 10.5285/3f2f92ad04f84e65a2399deeafd8bbbc, http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/deposited2020/integrate/data/v1/
Dataset
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Ocean glider data from BoBBLE (Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment) in July 2016
Webber, B. (Creator), Matthews, A. (Creator), Queste, B. (Creator), Lee, G. (Creator), Cobas-Garcia, M. (Creator), Heywood, K. (Creator) & Vinayachandran, P. N. (Creator), British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK , 2019
DOI: 10.5285/996bf53d-5448-297a-e053-6c86abc0b996
Dataset
Activities
- 1 Publication editorial role
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Journal)
Peer Nowack (Editorial board member)
22 Apr 2022 → …Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role
Press / Media
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Oceans have been warming at almost half the rate of land - here's why
11/09/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Dusty alien planets could be more likely to harbor life, study suggests
12/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Planets with ‘significant airborne dust’ could be home to alien life, study says
11/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media