Phil Jones (climatologist)
| Phil D. Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 April 1952 Redhill, Surrey |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Climatology, Paleoclimatology |
| Institutions | University of East Anglia |
| Alma mater |
Lancaster University University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Thesis | A spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne (1977) |
| Notable awards |
Hans Oeschger Medal (2002) AMS Fellow (2007) AGU Fellow (2009) |
Philip Douglas Jones (born April 22, 1952) retired from his positions as the Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and as a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) at the end of 2016. Jones was replaced as CRU director by Tim Osborn and has taken up a position as a Professorial Fellow at the UEA from January 2017.
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. 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 and a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change, of the AR4.
Jones obtained a B.A. in Environmental Sciences (1973) from the University of Lancaster, an M.Sc. in Engineering Hydrology (1974) and a Ph.D. in Hydrology (1977) from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His doctoral thesis was titled, A spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne.
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