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Philip D. Jones (born 1952) is a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, where he works as a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences. Jones holds a BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of Lancaster, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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 notable for maintaining the time series of the instrumental temperature record.[1] 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[2] and a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change, of the AR4.[3]

He headed the UEA's Climatic Research Unit jointly with Jean Palutikof from 1998-2004 and by himself from 2004 till 2009.[4][5][6] He stepped down from this director position following disclosed internal data. The House of Commons' Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry concluded that there was no case against Jones for him to answer, and said he should be reinstated in his post.[7]

He is an ISI highly cited researcher.[8]

Awards

  • Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society in 2002.[9]
  • International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for papers published in the last five years in 2001.[10]
  • Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by the Environmental Research Laboratories / NOAA for being a coauthor on the paper "A search for Human Influences on the Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere," by Ben Santer et al. in Nature, 382, 39-46 (1996).

Selected publications

  • Jones, P. D.; Mann, M. E. (2004), "Climate over past millennia" (PDF), Reviews of Geophysics, 42 (RG2002): 42, doi:10.1029/2003RG000143, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Mann, Michael E.; Jones, Philip D. (2003), "Global Surface Temperatures over the Past Two Millennia" (PDF), Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15): CLM 5–1~5–4, doi:10.1029/2003GL017814, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Jones, P. D.; Moberg, A. (2003), "Hemispheric and Large-Scale Surface Air Temperature Variations: An Extensive Revision and an Update to 2001" (PDF), Journal of Climate, 16 (2): 206–223, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0206:HALSSA>2.0.CO;2, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Jones, P. D.; Osborn, T.J. (2003), "Estimating Sampling Errors in Large-Scale Temperature Averages" (PDF), Journal of Climate, 10 (10): 2548–2568, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2548:ESEILS>2.0.CO;2, retrieved 2007-04-18 {{citation}}: |first3= missing |last3= (help); |first4= missing |last4= (help)

Notes

  1. ^ Jones, Phil. "Temperature". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 23 November 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis". UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ "History of the Climatic Research Unit". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
  5. ^ "Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit" (Press release). Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  6. ^ Abhinav Ramnarayan (2009-12-02). "Climate-change scientist Phil Jones steps down in e-mail row inquiry". Times Online. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  7. ^ Ben Webster (March 31, 2010). "Climate-row professor Phil Jones should return to work, say MPs - Times Online". The Times. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
  8. ^ ISI record
  9. ^ "EGS Hans Oeschger Medallist - 2002". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  10. ^ "Nomination Form for Awards/Prizes of The Royal Meteorological Society". The Royal Meteorological Society. Retrieved 23 November 2009.


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