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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Sarah Berk
- School of Computing Sciences - Associate Tutor
- School of Environmental Sciences
- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
- Climatic Research Unit
Person: Research Group Member, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Tutor
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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 Forstenhaeusler
- School of Environmental Sciences
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Senior Research Associate
- Climatic Research Unit
- Environmental Social Sciences - Member
Person: Research & Analogous, Research Group Member, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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Impacts of Pacific Ocean warming trends (ImPOse)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/10/22 → 30/04/25
Project: Research
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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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Changes to population-based emergence of climate change from CMIP5 to CMIP6
Douglas, H. C., Harrington, L. J., Joshi, M., Hawkins, E., Revell, L. E. & Frame, D. J., Jan 2023, In: Environmental Research Letters. 18, 1, 014013.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate warming and increasing Vibrio vulnificus infections in North America
Archer, E. J., Baker-Austin, C., Osborn, T. J., Jones, N. R., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Trinanes, J. A., Oliver, J. D., Colón González, F. J. & Lake, I. R., 23 Mar 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 3893.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Integrating climate-change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America
Saunders, S. P., Grand, J., Bateman, B. L., Meek, M., Wilsey, C. B., Forstenhäusler, N., Graham, E., Warren, R. & Price, J., Mar 2023, In: Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. 21, 2, p. 77-84 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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)
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
Prizes
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Hugh Robert Mill Medal (Royal Meteorological Society)
Osborn, Timothy (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Journal)
Peer Nowack (Editorial board member)
22 Apr 2022 → …Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role
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Climate Mural for our Times
Michael Taylor (Contributor), Timothy Osborn (Contributor) & Trevor Davies (Contributor)
10 Sep 2021 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival/Exhibition/Performance
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NERC Peer Review College (External organisation)
Manoj Joshi (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
Press/Media
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Past eight years hottest on record, says UN (Jan 23)
8/01/23 → 13/01/23
67 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Climate change mural unveiled at Norwich City Hall in historic year for Climatic Research Unit
25/11/22 → 1/12/22
2 items of Media coverage, 3 Media contributions
Press/Media: UEA Press Release
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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