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 School of Geography and the Environment

Climate Research Topics: Science

The climate science and policy communities are moving beyond the traditional "one size fits all" products which provide best guesses, towards products which allow for more nuanced approaches. This allows policy makers and climate modellers to do a much better job of quantifying uncertainty in climate forecasts than has been possible under traditional approaches. In particular, probabilistic approaches allow us to explore a more representative range of possible future climates, and may permit meaningful calculations of risk. These developments in turn open up interesting new ways to examine interactions between the human decisions and the climate response on timescales from decades to centuries.

Current Projects

  • Climateprediction.net
    1999 - present

    The worlds largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century using the power from ordinary pc's.

  • Avoided Deforestation.
    Ongoing

    ECI plays a leading role in understanding the dynamics and ecology of such forests, and is involved in large-scale monitoring projects within the Amazon region to better understand the ecological and climatological changes taking place in these important regions.

  • Atmosphere - biosphere interactions in the Amazon

    The ECI's Ecosystems research theme is undertaking a number of projects to further scientific understanding of biosphere - atmosphere interactions in tropical forests.

Archived Projects

More climate science projects are carried out within the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) Climate Systems and Policy research cluster.