Phil Jones (climatologist)

For the journalist, see Phil Jones (journalist).

Phil D. Jones
Jones in 2015
Born (1952-04-22) 22 April 1952 (age 72)
Redhill, Surrey
NationalityBritish
Alma materLancaster University
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
AwardsHans Oeschger Medal (2002)
AMS Fellow (2007)
AGU Fellow (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsClimatology, Paleoclimatology
InstitutionsUniversity of East Anglia
ThesisA spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne (1977)

Philip Douglas Jones (born 22 April 1952) is a former director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 1998, having begun his career at the unit in 1976. He retired from these positions at the end of 2016,[1][2][3] and was replaced as CRU director by Tim Osborn. Jones then took up a position as a Professorial Fellow at the UEA from January 2017.[2]

His research interests include instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the UK. He has also published papers on the temperature record of the past 1000 years.

He is known for maintaining a time series of the instrumental temperature record.[4] This work was featured prominently in both the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports, where he was a contributing author to Chapter 12, Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes, of the Third Assessment Report[5] and a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change, of the AR4.[6]

  1. ^ "Philip Douglas Jones - Curriculum Vitae". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Tim Osborn to take over leadership of CRU" (Press release). University of East Anglia. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Prof Philip Jones". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  4. ^ Jones, Phil; Mike Salmon. "Temperature". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis". UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Archived from the original on 20 November 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)