Senior Research Fellow
Background
David is a physicist by training and has many years' experience of climate modelling.
While a researcher at Oxford University, he co-founded and was chief scientist of the climateprediction.net project, the world's largest climate modelling experiment.
David has been both a NERC Research Fellow and a Tyndall Research Fellow at Oxford University.
Research programmes
Research interests
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How we can extract robust and useful information about future climate, and climate related phenomena, from modelling experiments;
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Issues of how to design climate modelling experiments and how to link climate science to real-world decision making in such a way as to be of value to industry, policymakers and wider society.
Media articles
2012
Policy: clarify the limits of climate models| (PDF)
David A Stainforth and Leonard A. Smith, Nature (correspondence), 13 September
2011
Questions and answers with Dr David Stainforth
|David Stainforth, Royal Society, July
2010
Climate science in the spotlight may not be such a bad thing
|Dave Stainforth, The Guardian, 12 February
Research articles
2013
Chapman, S.C., Stainforth, D.A., and Watkins, N.W. May 2013. On estimating local long-term climate trends. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series A, v. 371. External link to full article|
2012
Millner, A., Calel, R., Stainforth, D.A., and MacKerron, G. November 2012. Do probabilistic expert elicitations capture scientists’ uncertainty about climate change? Climatic Change. External link to full article|
2010
Oreskes, N., Stainforth, D.A., and Smith, L.A. December 2010. Adaptation to global warming: do climate models tell us what we need to know? Philosophy of Science, v.77, pp.1012-1028.
Stainforth, D. August 2010. Probabilistic regional and seasonal predictions of twenty-first century temperature and precipitation. Working paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of paper|
Stainforth, D. January 2010. Estimating uncertainty in future climate projections. Workshop on Nonstationarity, Hydrologic Frequency Analysis, and Water Management (Colorado Water Institute Information Series, no.109) [O J Rolf, J Kiang and R Waskom (eds.)]. Colorado Water Institute, Colorado. External link to full article
|2009
Harrison, S., and Stainforth, D.A. March 2009. Predicting climate change: lessons from reductionism, emergence, and the past. Eos, v.90, pp.111-112. External link to full article
|2008
Sanderson, B.M., Knutti, R., Aina, T., Christensen, C., Faull, N., Frame, D.J., Ingram, W.J., Piani, C., Stainforth, D.A., Stone, D.A., and Allen, M.R. June 2008. Constraints on model response to greenhouse gas forcing and the role of subgrid-scale processes. Journal of Climate, v.21, pp.2384-2400. External link to full article|
Policy articles
2013
Fankhauser, S., Ranger, N., Colmer, J., Fisher, S., Surminski, S., Stainforth, D., and Williamson, A. March 2013. An Independent National Adaptation Programme for England. Policy brief, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & Environment, London, UK. External link to full report| (PDF, 624KB) | Appendices| (PDF, 700KB)
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Contact details
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Email
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Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7107 5438