University of East Anglia - Professor Philip Jones

All About Professor Philip Jones!

  • Professional Fellow at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) - section of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia

  • He has created 450 research papers over the last 45 years, 63,000 citations, and an H-index of around 118 on a system known as the ResearcherID system - allows an author to manage their citations, publications, collaborators, mentions, etc.

  • Has been a fellow at the Royal Meteorological Society since 1992

  • Been a part of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Climatology up until around 1995

  • As of 2024, he is on the board of Climactic Change, and an active member of Academia Europaea since 1998

What are some of his Key Research Factors?

  • Instrumental climate change - analyzes temperature, precipitation, as well as pressure rates and changes from across the globe

  • Travels around the world in order to get data he needs from needed countries; Antarctica and Greenland

  • He works against the instrumental record, which has been around since the 1850s

  • Works a lot with data relating to previous records as well as those gathered in field science - he does quite a bit of comparative work to make future conclusions

  • Professor Philip Jones had 4 main projects through the University of East Anglia (UEA)

  • 1. European Climate Energy Mixes

  • 2. Uncertainties in Ensembles of Regional Reanalysis (UERRA)

  • 3. Analysis of Climate Date for the Study of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Change (Linked to R14702)

  • 4. EURO4M: European Reanalysis and Observations for Monitoring