Piers Forster

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Piers Forster
Nationality British
Education
Awards American Geophysical Union Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Leeds
Thesis Measuring and modelling UV radiation  (1994)
Doctoral advisor Keith Shine

Piers Forster is a Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. [1] [2] A physicist by training, his research focuses on quantifying the different human causes of climate change and the way the Earth responds. He is best known for his work on radiative forcing, climate sensitivity, aviation-climate effects, climate engineering, climate modelling and carbon budgets. He has contributed heavily to the writing of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including acting as a Lead Author for the Fourth [3] and Fifth [4] Assessment Reports, and a Co-ordinating Lead Author for the Sixth Report. [5] [6] He also acted as a Lead Author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. [7] [8] He leads an international effort to annually update climate indictors, the Indicators of Global Climate Change project. [9]

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Career

Forster was educated at Imperial College, London, where he gained a BSc in Physics in 1990. He was subsequently awarded a PhD in Meteorology by the University of Reading in 1994. After research posts at the Universities of Reading, Colorado and Melbourne he was appointed a Reader at the University of Leeds in 2005. He has been Professor of Physical Climate Change at Leeds since 2008. [10] [11]

Forster led the EU Horizon CONSTRAIN project [12] and was principal investigator of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals project. [13] [14] He has doubts as to whether geoengineering could be deployed effectively. [15] Forster is also trustee of a UK rainforest-protection charity United Bank of Carbon. [11] [16] He has a number of UK government and industry roles including being a member of the UK Climate Change Committee. [17] Since 2023 he has been interim Chair of the Committee, succeeding Lord Deben. [18]

Awards

2011 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award [19]

2019 American Geophysical Union Fellow [20]

2023 Natural Environment Research Council Societal Impact Award Winner [21]

2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023 Clarivate Web of Science, Highly Cited Researcher [22]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Profiles Archive". Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds . Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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  9. ↑ Forster, Piers M.; Smith, Chris; Walsh, Tristram; Lamb, William F.; Lamboll, Robin; Hall, Bradley; Hauser, Mathias; Ribes, Aurélien; Rosen, Debbie; Gillett, Nathan P.; Palmer, Matthew D.; Rogelj, Joeri; von Schuckmann, Karina; Trewin, Blair; Allen, Myles (5 June 2024). "Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence". Earth System Science Data. 16 (6): 2625–2658. Bibcode:2024ESSD...16.2625F. doi: 10.5194/essd-16-2625-2024 . hdl: 20.500.11850/678430 . ISSN   1866-3508.
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  11. 1 2 "People". UBoC, United Bank of Carbon. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
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  22. ↑ "Highly Cited Researchers". Clarivate. Retrieved 29 July 2024.


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