Andy Challinor
Andy is Professor of Climate Impacts at Leeds university, in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science of the School of Earth and Environment.
His research focuses principally on using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food security, treatments of uncertainty and managing risk, and climate-resilient pathways and adaptation.
Andy is also:
- Adaptation theme leader for the CGIAR program on ‘climate change, agriculture and food security‘;
- Principal Investigator on NERC EQUIP on ‘end-to-end quantification of uncertainty for impacts prediction’;
- Research Director for the Africa College Partnership;
- Lead Author on the ‘Food Production Systems and Food Security’ chapter of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment report of the IPCC.
Background
Andy’s previous roles include being on the expert panel for Scoping Study on the Analysis, Propagation and Communication of Probability, Uncertainty and Risk (2009-2010); The UK Poverty and Adaptation Seminar Series Network (2008-2009); and The International Society for Agricultural Meteorology working group for the re-writing of the WMO/CAgM Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (2005-2006).
Andy has written many research papers, reviewed papers for a range of journals, and also reviewed research proposals for the NSF, DEFRA, The Danish International Development Agency and the Research Council of Norway. He was an adviser on, and cited in, ‘The Rough Guide to Climate Change’, published by Rough Guides.
Andy was a ‘Science of Risk’ runner up in the Lloyds Research Prize, in the category of ‘Climate Change’.
Andy received a BSc Physics (European) Honours Class from the University of Leeds, and has a PhD in Meteorology and Forest Micro-Climate, also from the University of Leeds.
Research interests
- Climate modelling and processes;
- Food production and food security;
- Treatments of uncertainty and managing risk;
- Climate-resilient pathways;
- Adaptation.
Research articles
- Using climate information to support crop breeding decisions and adaptation in agriculture
25 Aug 2015. Suraje Dessai, Andy Challinor - Ensembles and uncertainty in climate change impacts
12 Aug 2014. P. Falloon, Andy Challinor, Suraje Dessai - Farming System Evolution and Adaptive Capacity
27 Feb 2014. Jami Dixon, Lindsay Stringer, Andy Challinor - Agro-climate ensembles: emerging tools for quantifying uncertainty and informing adaptation.
15 Mar 2013. Andy Challinor, M. Stafford Smith, P.K. Thornton - Calibration and bias correction of climate projections for crop modelling: an idealised case study over Europe
15 Mar 2013. E. Hawkins, T.M. Osborne, C.K. Hoa, Andy Challinor - Increasing influence of heat stress on French maize yields from the 1960s to the 2030s.
24 Dec 2012. Ed Hawkins, Thomas Fricker, Andy Challinor, Christopher Ferro, Chun Kit Ho, Tom Osborne - The relative importance of rainfall, temperature and yield data for a regional-scale crop model.
23 Oct 2012. James Watson, Andy Challinor - The socioeconomics of food crop production and climate change vulnerability: a global scale quantitative analysis of how grain crops are sensitive to drought.
1 Jun 2012. Elisabeth Simelton, Evan Fraser, Mette Termansen, Tim G. Benton, Simon N. Gosling, Andrew South, Nigel W. Arnell, Andy Challinor, Andy Dougill, Piers Forster - Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
14 Oct 2011. Sonja Vermeulen, P.K. Aggarwala, A. Ainslie, C. Angelone, B.M. Campbell, Andy Challinor, J.W. Hansen, J.S.I. Ingram, A. Jarvis, P. Kristjanson, C. Lau, G.C. Nelson, P.K. Thornton, Eva Wollenberg - Intercontinental trans-boundary contributions to ozone-induced crop yield losses in the Northern Hemisphere
26 Aug 2011. M. J. Hollaway, S. R. Arnold, Andy Challinor, L. D. Emberson - Agriculture: forecasting food
6 May 2011. Andy Challinor - Assessing relevant climate data for agricultural applications.
12 Apr 2011. Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Andy Challinor - An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research: synergies and trade-offs
25 Mar 2011. Andy Jarvis, Charlotte Lau, Simon Cook, Eva Wollenberg, James Hansen, Osana Bonilla, Andy Challinor - Climate change, agriculture and food security: a global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers.
12 Jan 2011. Sonja Vermeulen, Robert Zougmoré, Eva Wollenberg, Philip Thornton, Gerald Nelson, Patricia Kristjanson, James Kinyangi, Andrew Jarvis, James Hansen, Andy Challinor, Bruce Campbell, Pramod Aggarwal - Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a four-plus degree world
29 Nov 2010. Philip Thornton, Peter Jones, Polly Ericksen, Andy Challinor - The observed relationships between wheat and climate in China
15 Oct 2010. S Li, Tim Wheeler, Andy Challinor, E Lin, H Ju, Y Xu - Increased crop failure due to climate change: assessing adaptation options using models and socio-economic data for wheat in China
29 Sep 2010. Andy Challinor, Elisabeth Simelton, Evan Fraser, Debbie Hemming, Mathew Collins - Food security: focus on agriculture
4 Sep 2010. Andy Challinor, AF Ewert - Simulating the impacts of global warming on wheat in China using a large area crop model.
1 Jan 2010. S Li, Tim Wheeler, Andy Challinor, E Lin, H Ju, Y Xu - Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
1 Jan 2010. Sonja Vermeulen, P.K. Aggarwal, A. Ainslie, C. Angelone, B.M. Campbell, Andy Challinor, J.W. Hansen, J.S.I. Ingram, A. Jarvis, P. Kristjanson, C. Lau, G.C. Nelson, P.K. Thornton, P.K., Eva Wollenberg - Methods and resources for climate impacts research: achieving synergy
1 Jun 2009. Andy Challinor, Tom Osborne, Len Shaffrey, Hilary Weller, Andy Morse, Tim Wheeler, Pier Luigi Vidale - Developing adaptation options using climate and crop yield forecasting at seasonal to multi-decadal timescales.
1 Jun 2009. Andy Challinor - Crops and climate change: progress, trends, and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation
16 Mar 2009. Andy Challinor, Frank Ewert, Steve Arnold, Elisabeth Simelton, Evan Fraser - Crops and climate change: progress, trends and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation
16 Mar 2009. Andy Challinor, Frank Ewert, Steve Arnold, Elisabeth Simelton, Evan Fraser - Towards a science of adaptation that prioritises the poor
29 Jan 2009. Andy Challinor - Ensemble yield simulations: crop and climate uncertainties, sensitivity to temperature and genotypic adaptation to climate change
1 Jan 2009. Andy Challinor, Tim Wheeler, Debbie Hemming, H. D. Upadhyaya - Use of a crop model ensemble to quantify CO2 stimulation of water-stressed and well-watered crops
1 Jun 2008. Andy Challinor, Tim Wheeler - Crop yield reduction in the tropics under climate change: processes and uncertainties
13 Mar 2008. Andy Challinor, Tim Wheeler
Books
- Commentary on Chapter 2.1: Climate Change Projections in Some Asian Countries
1 Jan 2011 - Chapter 7: Potential impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystem services in China
1 Jan 2011 - Chapter 20: Surprises and Possibilities
1 Jan 2010 - Expert Systems
1 Jan 2010 - Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes from cropland soils ? climate opportunities and threats
25 Feb 2009