Philip D. Jones (born 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 was director of the Climatic Research Unit^[3] and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. He holds a BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of Lancaster, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His PhD was titled "A spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne". 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 E. Mann he has published on the temperature record of the past 1000 years.

On November 21, 2009, the Associated Press^[4] confirmed reports of a computer breach at the Climatic Research Unit in which documents and e-mails, including at least one written by Jones,^[5] were stolen and posted to the Internet. The messages generated controversy^[4] as global warming skeptics asserted the messages showed scientists had overstated the case for global warming,^[4] although others, such as Kevin Trenberth, believe that the e-mails have been released selectively and are being taken out of context.^[6][7] On 1 December the UEA announced that Jones would temporarily stand aside as director until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.^[3]

Contents 1 Awards 2 Publications 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Awards

• Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society in 2002^[8] "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 Meteorological Society for papers published in the last five years in 2001^[9]
• 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)

[edit] Publications

• Jones, P. D.; Mann, M. E. (2004), "Climate over past millennia", Reviews of Geophysics 42 (RG2002): 42, doi:10.1029/2003RG000143, http://iri.columbia.edu/~goddard/EESC_W4400/CC/jones_mann_2004.pdf, retrieved 2007-04-18 
• Mann, Michael E.; Jones, Philip D. (2003), "Global Surface Temperatures over the Past Two Millennia", Geophysical Research Letters 30 (15): CLM 5–1~5–4, doi:10.1029/2003GL017814, http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Mann_Jones1.pdf, 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", Journal of Climate 16 (2): 206–223, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0206:HALSSA>2.0.CO;2, http://www.sfu.ca/~jkoch/jones_and_moberg_2003.pdf, retrieved 2007-04-18 
• Jones, P. D.; Osborn, T.J. (2003), "Estimating Sampling Errors in Large-Scale Temperature Averages", Journal of Climate 10 (10): 2548–2568, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2548:ESEILS>2.0.CO;2, http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0442/10/10/pdf/i1520-0442-10-10-2548.pdf, retrieved 2007-04-18 

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Home page
• BBC article on the temperature record of the past 1000 years controversy
• BBC article: Climate crisis: All change in the UK?

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