David Stainforth

Centre member

David is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|.

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

• How to extract robust and useful information about future climate, and climate related phenomena, from modelling experiments; 
• How to design climate modelling experiments and link climate science to real-world decision making in such a way as to be of value to industry, policy makers 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, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (439KB)