Phil Jones

Philip D. Jones (1952-) is a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, notable for maintaining of the time series of the instrumental temperature record [1]; this work figured prominently in the IPCC TAR SPM [2]. He is director of the Climatic Research Unit and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. His research interests are instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the UK. He was a contributing author to the IPCC TAR chapter 12 Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes. Together with Michael Mann he has published on the temperature record of the past 1000 years.

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Jones, P.D. and Mann, M.E., 2004 Climate over past millennia Reviews of Geophysics 42, 42pp American Geophysical Union. Paper number 2003RG2002/2004
Michael E. Mann and Philip D. Jones Global Surface Temperatures over the Past Two Millennia Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 30, No. 15, 1820, August 2003 doi: 10.1029/2003GL017814 [3]
Jones, P.D. and Moberg, A., 2003 “Hemispheric and large-scale surface air temperature variations: an extensive revision and an update to 2001.” Journal of Climate 16, 206-223 American Meteorological Society
Jones, P.D., Osborn, T.J. and Briffa, K.R., 1997: Estimating sampling errors in large-scale temperature averages. J. Climate 10, 2548-2568.

Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society in 2002 [4] for his remarkable contribution and sustained effort in reconstructing the climate of the last 250 years at the global and regional scales
International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteoological Society for papers published in the last five years in 2002
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)