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PhD Climatology University of East Anglia

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According to Wikipedia, Keith Raphael Briffa was a climatologist and deputy director of the Climatic Research Unit. He authored or co-authored over 130 scholarly articles, chapters and books. In his professional work, he focused on climate variability in the late Holocene, with a special focus on northern portions of Europe and Asia. Briffa's preferred method was dendroclimatology, which is a set of procedures intended to decode information about the past climate from tree rings. Briffa helped develop data sets from trees from Canada, Fennoscandia, and northern Siberia which have been used in climate research.

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Keith Briffa's Published Works

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The Physical Science Basis (2007) (5950)
On the Average Value of Correlated Time Series, with Applications in Dendroclimatology and Hydrometeorology (1984) (2916)
Global warming and changes in drought (2014) (2018)
HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region (2007) (875)
Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years (1998) (798)
Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes (1998) (748)
Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling (2009) (675)
The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies (1995) (647)
High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects (2009) (624)
Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree ring density (2001) (605)
Basic chronology statistics and assessment (1990) (538)
A 1,400-year tree-ring record of summer temperatures in Fennoscandia (1990) (531)
SPATIAL REGRESSION METHODS IN DENDROCLIMATOLOGY: A REVIEW AND COMPARISON OF TWO TECHNIQUES (1994) (511)
The ‘little ice age’: re‐evaluation of an evolving concept (2005) (479)
A COMPARISON OF LAMB CIRCULATION TYPES WITH AN OBJECTIVE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME (1993) (445)
A “signal-free” approach to dendroclimatic standardisation (2008) (424)
A 7400-year tree-ring chronology in northern Swedish Lapland: natural climatic variability expressed on annual to millennial timescales (2002) (414)
Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era (2015) (414)
Tree-ring standardization and growth-trend estimation (1990) (394)
A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (2014) (379)
Large-scale temperature inferences from tree rings: a review (2004) (359)
Evaluation of the North Atlantic Oscillation as simulated by a coupled climate model (1999) (340)
Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals (2002) (335)
Estimating Sampling Errors in Large-Scale Temperature Averages (1997) (332)
A reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation using tree-ring chronologies from North America and Europe (1998) (317)
Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees (2000) (315)
Global Surface Air Temperature Variations During the Twentieth Century: Part 1, Spatial, Temporal and Seasonal Details (1992) (314)
Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia (1995) (297)
Adjusting for sampling density in grid box land and ocean surface temperature time series (2001) (296)
Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context (2016) (293)
Obtaining sub-grid-scale information from coarse-resolution general circulation model output (1990) (284)
Summer Moisture Variability across Europe (2006) (283)
Trees tell of past climates: But are they speaking less clearly today? (1998) (272)
Large‐scale variations in the vegetation growing season and annual cycle of atmospheric CO2 at high northern latitudes from 1950 to 2011 (2013) (272)
Global and hemispheric temperature anomalies - land and marine instrumental records (1994) (265)
Tree-ring variables as proxy-climate indicators: Problems with low-frequency signals (1996) (249)
A Closer Look at Regional Curve Standardization of Tree-Ring Records: Justification of the Need, a Warning of Some Pitfalls, and Suggested Improvements in Its Application (2011) (242)
The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years (2006) (236)
Proxy-Based Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperature Reconstructions: Sensitivity to Method, Predictor Network, Target Season, and Target Domain (2005) (233)
Effect of scaling and regression on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the past millennium (2005) (230)
The sensitivity of the PDSI to the Thornthwaite and Penman‐Monteith parameterizations for potential evapotranspiration (2011) (223)
Interpreting High-Resolution Proxy Climate Data — The Example of Dendroclimatology (1995) (206)
A new instrumental precipitation dataset for the greater alpine region for the period 1800–2002 (2005) (203)
Tree-Ring Density Reconstructions of Summer Temperature Patterns across Western North America since 1600 (1992) (201)
Reconstructing Summer Temperatures in Northern Fennoscandinavia Back to A.D. 1700 Using Tree-Ring Data from Scots Pine (1988) (197)
SUMMER MOISTURE VARIABILITY ACROSS EUROPE, 1892-1991 : AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX (1994) (172)
The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 1, chronology construction and initial inferences (2002) (171)
Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1,200 years (2017) (169)
The Climate of the Last Millennium (2003) (163)
Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland (2010) (162)
Trends in recent temperature and radial tree growth spanning 2000 years across northwest Eurasia (2008) (161)
Dark Ages Cold Period: A literature review and directions for future research (2017) (150)
Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions (2017) (146)
Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 2, spatio-temporal variability and associated climate patterns (2002) (146)
Tree rings and volcanic cooling (2012) (143)
Summer Temperature Patterns over Europe: A Reconstruction from 1750 A.D. Based on Maximum Latewood Density Indices of Conifers (1988) (143)
Signal strength and climate relationships in 13C/12C ratios of tree ring cellulose from oak in east England (1997) (138)
Millennial temperature reconstruction intercomparison and evaluation (2006) (136)
On past temperatures and anomalous late‐20th‐century warmth (2003) (128)
A tree-ring densitometric transect from Alaska to Labrador (1993) (123)
First cross-matched floating chronology from the marine fossil record: data from growth lines of the long-lived bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica (2006) (121)
Extending Greenland temperature records into the late eighteenth century (2006) (119)
Depositional frequency of German subfossil oaks: climatically and non-climatically induced fluctuations in the Holocene (2002) (118)
Blowing Hot and Cold (2002) (116)
Construction of a 10-min-gridded precipitation data set for the Greater Alpine Region for 1800–2003 (2006) (115)
Cross-dating methods in dendrochronology (1987) (112)
Radiodensitometric-dendroclimatological conifer chronologies from Lapland (Scandinavia) and the Alps (Switzerland) (2008) (106)
CRUST: Software for the implementation of Regional Chronology Standardisation: Part 1. Signal-Free RCS (2014) (106)
Potential bias in ‘updating’ tree-ring chronologies using regional curve standardisation: Re-processing 1500 years of Torneträsk density and ring-width data (2013) (105)
Tree-ring evidence of the widespread effects of explosive volcanic eruptions (1995) (105)
Reassessing the evidence for tree-growth and inferred temperature change during the Common Era in Yamalia, northwest Siberia (2013) (104)
Tree-Ring Density Networks for Climate Reconstruction (1996) (100)
Time-varying-response smoothing (2007) (99)
Seeing the Wood from the Trees (1999) (98)
Two-hundred-fifty years of reconstructed and modeled tropical temperatures (2006) (96)
A millennial long March–July precipitation reconstruction for southern-central England (2013) (95)
Changes in the Northern Hemisphere annual cycle: Implications for paleoclimatology? (2003) (90)
Climate variability 50,000 years ago in mid-latitude Chile as reconstructed from tree rings (2001) (89)
Temperature and Snow-Mediated Moisture Controls of Summer Photosynthetic Activity in Northern Terrestrial Ecosystems between 1982 and 2011 (2014) (89)
The climatic interpretation of pan-European signature years in oak ring-width series (2002) (83)
Holocene climate dynamics in Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic (2004) (81)
Nao and sea surface temperature signatures in tree-ring records from the North Atlantic sector (1993) (80)
Pressure‐Based Measures of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO): A Comparison and an Assessment of Changes in the Strength of the NAO and in its Influence on Surface Climate Parameters (2013) (77)
Relationships between circulation strength and the variability of growing-season and cold-season climate in northern and central Europe (2002) (76)
Yearly maps of summer temperatures in Western Europe from A.D. 1750 to 1975 and Western North America from 1600 to 1982: (1991) (74)
Unusual Climate in Northwest Europe During the Period 1730 to 1745 Based on Instrumental and Documentary Data (2006) (68)
Simulated climate change during the last 1,000 years: comparing the ECHO-G general circulation model with the MAGICC simple climate model (2006) (66)
Response to Comment on "The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years" (2007) (65)
Climate reconstruction from tree rings: Part 1, basic methodology and preliminary results for England (1983) (64)
Climate reconstruction from tree rings: Part 2, spatial reconstruction of summer mean sea‐level pressure patterns over Great Britain (1986) (63)
Regional curve standardization: State of the art (2017) (61)
A tree-ring reconstruction of East Anglian (UK) hydroclimate variability over the last millennium (2013) (60)
Summer temperatures across northern North America: Regional reconstructions from 1760 using tree‐ring densities (1994) (60)
Climate Control on Tree Growth at the Upper and Lower Treelines: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains, Tibetan Plateau (2013) (59)
Tree‐ring growth variability in the Austrian Alps: the influence of site, altitude, tree species and climate (2007) (58)
Dendrochronology in the dry tropics: the Ethiopian case (2010) (57)
A Comparison of the Variability of a Climate Model with Paleotemperature Estimates from a Network of Tree-Ring Densities. (2002) (57)
PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF THE LAMB CATALOGUE OF DAILY WEATHER TYPES: PART 2, SEASONAL FREQUENCIES AND UPDATE TO 1987 (1990) (56)
Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term (2009) (53)
Summer moisture availability across North America (2006) (53)
Precipitation variability and drought (1997) (49)
A Model-Based Approach to Climate Reconstruction Using Tree-Ring Data (2015) (48)
Monthly mean pressure reconstructions for Europe (back to 1780) and North America (to 1958) (1987) (48)
Increasing productivity of "natural growth" conifers in Europe over the last century (1992) (45)
Growing season temperatures over the former Soviet Union (1995) (44)
Influence of large-scale atmospheric circulation on climate variability in the Greater Alpine Region of Europe (2007) (43)
The Scope of Medieval Warming (2001) (40)
History and Climate (2001) (38)
The Real Color of Climate Change? (2004) (38)
Swedish tree rings provide new evidence in support of a major, widespread environmental disruption in 1628 BC (2000) (38)
Summer Moisture Availability Over Europe in the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index (1996) (38)
A 3500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau (2014) (37)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide: Predicting plant productivity and water resources (1984) (37)
Reconstruction of New Zealand summer temperatures to 1730 ad using dendroclimatic techniques (1989) (36)
CRUST: Software for the implementation of Regional Chronology Standardisation: Part 2. Further RCS options and recommendations (2014) (35)
Evidence on climatic variability and prehistoric human activities between 165 B.C. and A.D. 1400 derived from subfossil Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L.) found in a lake in Utsjoki, northernmost Finland (1994) (35)
Re-dating the English art-historical tree-ring chronologies (1985) (35)
Estimates of the North Atlantic Oscillation back to 1692 using a Paris–London westerly index (2013) (34)
Revisiting timescale-dependent reconstruction of climate from tree-ring chronologies (2000) (33)
Surface climate responses to explosive volcanic eruptions seen in long European temperature records and mid-to-high latitude tree-ring density around the Northern Hemisphere (2013) (33)
Reconstruction of New Zealand climate indices back to AD 1731 using dendroclimatic techniques: Some preliminary results (1994) (32)
The development of Lamb weather types: from subjective analysis of weather charts to objective approaches using reanalyses (2014) (30)
A daily series of mean sea‐level pressure for London, 1692–2007 (2012) (30)
Sensitivity of climate response to variations in freshwater hosing location (2009) (29)
Riverflow reconstruction from tree rings in southern Britain (1984) (28)
Radial Growth of Qilian Juniper on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau and Potential Climate Associations (2013) (28)
The "Little Ice Age": Local and Global Perspectives (2001) (27)
Classifying the winds and weather (1997) (25)
Limited Late Antique cooling (2017) (25)
A Global Paleoclimate Observing System (2001) (24)
A daily series of mean sea‐level pressure for Paris, 1670–2007 (2012) (24)
Erratum to “Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees” [Quaternary Science Reviews, 19 (2000) 87–105] ☆ (2000) (22)
ADVANCE-10K: a European contribution towards a hemispheric dendroclimatology for the Holocene (2002) (20)
The climate of Europe during the 1810s with special reference to 1816 (1992) (18)
Analysis of Dendrochronological Variability and Associated Natural Climates in Eurasia – the last 10,000 years (ADVANCE–10K) (1999) (16)
Towards an objective approach to standardization (1987) (16)
What can the instrumental record tell us about longer timescale paleoclimatic reconstructions (1996) (15)
Development of a north Eurasian chronology network: Rationale and preliminary results of comparative ring-width and densitometric analyses in northern Russia (1996) (15)
Patterns of tree-growth and related pressure variability in Europe (1988) (13)
GROWING SEASON TEMPERATURES OVER THE FORMER (1995) (13)
The Simulation of Weather Types in GCMs: A Regional Approach to Control-Run Validation (1995) (11)
Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate Impact Research (2001) (11)
Paleoclimate. Blowing hot and cold. (2002) (10)
Response “[to Comment on ‘On past temperatures and anomalous late‐20th‐century warmth’”] (2003) (9)
Supporting Online Material for The Spatial Extent of 20 th Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years (2006) (9)
Holocene climate variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES PEP III time-stream 1 synthesis (2004) (8)
Comments on the paper of R. N. Harris and D. S. Chapman “Mid‐latitude (30°N–60°N) climatic warming inferred by combining borehole temperatures with surface air temperatures” (2002) (8)
Hierarchical regression models for dendroclimatic standardization and climate reconstruction (2017) (8)
Historical climatology and dendroclimatology in the Blue Nile River basin, northern Ethiopia (1998) (8)
Reconstructing surface pressure patterns using principal components regression on temperature and precipitation data (1983) (7)
Towards an absolute chronology for the marine environment: the development of a 1000-year record from Arctica islandica (2003) (7)
Detecting the effects of acidic deposition and CO2 fertilization on tree growth (1987) (6)
Tree-Ring/Environment Interactions and Their Assessment (1990) (6)
Annually resolved patterns of summer temperature over the Northern Hemisphere since AD 1400 from a tree-ring-density network (2004) (6)
Simulation of ENSO forcings on U.S. drought by the HadCM3 coupled climate model (2007) (5)
X-ray Densitometry as a Tool for Reconstructing Northern Hemispheric Summer Temperatures (1995) (5)
Temperature trends from instrumental and proxy indicators for the past millennium (2000) (5)
Reconstructing Late Holocene climate (2001) (5)
Chapter 6. Palaeoclimate (2007) (4)
Reconstruction of Summer Temperatures with a Circumpolar Tree Ring Network (1996) (4)
Past millennia climate variability (2006) (4)
Grasping At Shadows? A Selective Review of the Search for Sunspot-Related Variability in Tree Rings (1994) (3)
The Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming Matters (2017) (3)
Analysis of dendrochronological variability and associated natural climates in Eurasia (ADVANCE-10K) (2002) (2)
Summer moisture supply across Europe: An analysis based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1982-1991 (1994) (2)
Climate. The real color of climate change? (2004) (2)
CRETE_1974 high resolution stable oxygen isotope record (2010) (1)
Changes in the seasonal cycle - implications for paleoclimatology? (2003) (1)
Climate of the Past Millennial temperature reconstruction intercomparison and evaluation (2006) (1)
Scientists Convene to Discuss Climate Variability of Past Millennia (2006) (1)
Millennial Temperature Reconstruction Intercomparison and Evaluation: Supplementary material (2007) (1)
Background to the Science of Environmental Change (2012) (1)
Long tree-rings (1990) (0)
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation over the last millennium (2017) (0)
Climate and Climate Impacts: The Last 1000 Years (2001) (0)
Detailed final report on the EU Project Simulations, Observations & Palaeoclimatic data: climate variability over the last 500 years (2006) (0)
Book Review: Paleoclimatology: reconstructing climates of the Quaternary (second edition) (2000) (0)
Tree-ring growth concordance across northwest Eurasia for the last 2000 years (2009) (0)
The London and Paris Daily Pressure Series, 1692–2007: the development of two new data series (2009) (0)
Comments on: Mid-latitude (30°N-60°N) climatic warming inferred by combining borehole temperatures with surface air temperatures. Authors' reply (2002) (0)
British-Russian workshop for young scientists: “Climate Change, the tree growth response, and reconstruction of climate” (2006) (0)
A global dataset of self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index dataset (2010) (0)
Panel Discussion on Paleoclimatic Data (1994) (0)
Are tree-ring based estimates for Northern Hemisphere medieval temperatures fit for purpose? (2015) (0)
Climate change: A multi-dimensional challenge (2006) (0)
The Holocene (2006) (0)
CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION FROM TREE RINGS: PART 2, SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER MEAN OVER GREAT BRITAIN SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE PATTERNS (1986) (0)
A tree-ring-based study of Sitka spruce growth in Afan Forest, South Wales: ring-width, wood density and chemical analysis (1995) (0)
PATTERNS OF PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY IN THE GREATER ALPINE REGION (2005) (0)
A NEW HIGH-RESOLUTION BI-CENTENNIAL (1800–2003) PRECIPITATION DATASET FOR THE GREATER ALPINE REGION (2005) (0)
Dendroclimatological evidence of Arctic temperature changes through recent Millennia: current evidence and research prospects (2007) (0)
Simulating the last half-millennium (2003) (0)
Variability and Trends In Northern Fennoscandian Summer Temperatures and A Comparison of Palaeo and Simulated Data For The Last Millennium (2002) (0)
Standardization trials on Douglas fir chronologies from Onion Saddle / Upper Pinery Canyon Area, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. Fifth Annual Dendroecology Fieldweek, May 22-28, 1994, Portal Arizona (1994) (0)
PAGES/CLIVAR workshop on past millennia climate variability – synthesis and outlook (2006) (0)

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University of East Anglia