ECI's climate research focuses on climate prediction, detection and attribution, as well as climate risk assessment and modelling of climate impacts. ECI hosts UKCIP (the UK Climate Impacts Programme), which promotes and enables adaptation in government and business.
RESEARCH THEMES
Global Science Programme
The Global Climate Science programme looks at the attribution of climate change, climate model uncertainties, and the carbon cycle.
Projects +Impacts and Adaptation
The Impacts and Adaption work focuses on climate impacts on flooding risks and infrastructure systems, and adaptation strategies in the the UK and globally.
Projects +Mitigation
The Mitigation research investigates how to reduce energy demand and decarbonise the UK energy infrastructure.
Projects +International Climate Policy
The ECI manages the formal UNFCCC registration process on behalf of the University of Oxford. Opportunities are open to all member of the University of Oxford.
Find out more +Climate news
In order to adapt to, or address loss and damage from, the changing risks of extreme events occurring we need to understand the effect of climate change on such events.
Friederike Otto, et al (2015) Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications Climatic ChangeProf. Myles Allen on why #fossilfuel companies should invest in #carboncapturestorage #CCS https://t.co/DgdPgV4HHg via @audioBoom
— Share Radio (@ShareRadioUK) July 7, 2015- July 2015
Base greenhouse gas targets on science not expediency, says leading climate scientist
A policy paper by Professor Myles Allen urges policy-makers to base greenhouse gas emissions priorities on science and not expediency ahead of the 2015 climate negotiations.
- May 2015
Latest publications
- Sippel, S., Forkel, M., Rammig, A., Thonicke, K., Flack, M., Heimann, M., Otto, F., Reichstein, M. and Mahecha, M. (2017) Contrasting and interacting changes in simulated spring and summer carbon cycle extremes in European ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 12(7).
- Thacker, S., Kelly, S., Pant, R., Hall, J.W., (2017) Evaluating the Benefits of Adaptation of Critical Infrastructures to Hydrometeorological Risks. Society for Risk Analysis.
- Yang, Y., Hu, X., Dangerfield, M. and Sheng, X. (2017) Oxford International Infrastructure Consortium: Second Global Infrastructure Conference Report. "Bridging the Infrastructure Gap: Global Integration and the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative". Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; ITRC; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford.. 1-61. ISBN: 978-1-874370-68-0.
- Hsu, H., Lo, M.H., Guillod, B.P., Miralles, D.G., Kumar, S. (2017) Relation between precipitation location and antecedent/subsequent soil moisture spatial patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres.
- Philip, S.Y., Kew, S.F., Hauser, M., Guillod, B.P., Teuling, A.J., Whan, K., Uhe, P. and Van Oldenborgh, G.J. (2017) Western US high June 2015 temperatures and their relation to global warming and soil moisture. Climate Dynamics.
- Millar, R.J., Nicholls, Z.R., Friedlingstein, P. and Allen, M.R. (2017) A modified impulse-response representation of the global near-surface air temperature and atmospheric concentration response to carbon dioxide emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17: 7213-7228.
- Thacker, S., Barr, S., Pant, R., Hall, J.W. and Alderson, D. (2017) Geographic Hotspots of Critical National Infrastructure. Risk Analysis.
- Ramirez-Mendíola, J.L., Grünwald, P. and Eyre, N. (2017) The diversity of residential electricity demand - A comparative analysis of metered and simulated data. Energy and Buildings.
