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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 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
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
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|
Contact details
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Email
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Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7107 5438