Piers Forster
Piers is Professor of Physical Climate Change, Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds.
Biography
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2011-present)
- Professor of Physical Climate Change, University of Leeds (2008-present)
- Roberts Research Fellow/ Reader, University of Leeds (2005-2008)
- NERC Advanced Research Fellow, University of Reading (2000-2005)
- Visiting Researcher, CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Melbourne (1999)
- PDRA, University of Reading (1994-1998)
Qualifications
- PhD Meteorology, University of Reading (1994)
- BSc Physics, Imperial College, London (1990)
Memberships/Fellowships
Royal Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Sustainable Aviation Stakeholder Panel
Research Interests
Climate change, Radiative forcing, climate modelling, climate change impact, climate change adaptation, aviation and climate
Research articles
- Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany
23 Feb 2017. Suraje Dessai, Piers Forster, Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola - Adaptation Planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany
10 Aug 2016. Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster, Suraje Dessai - Testing the effectiveness of climate projections visualisations with adaptation practitioners
10 Nov 2015. Susanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Piers Forster, Jouni Paavola - The communication of physical science uncertainty in European National Adaptation Strategies
27 Jul 2013. Suzanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster - The communication of scientific uncertainty in European national adaptation strategies
25 Jan 2013. Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster - 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 - A balance between radiative forcing and climate feedback in the modeled 20th century temperature response
10 Sep 2011. Julia Crook, Piers Forster - Global cloud condensation nuclei influenced by carbonaceous combustion aerosol
5 Sep 2011. D. V. Spracklen, K. S. Carslaw, U. Pöschl, A. Rap, Piers Forster - Climate change impacts on future photovoltaic and concentrated solar power energy output
27 Jul 2011. Julia Crook, Laura Jones, Piers Forster, Rolf Crook - Spatial patterns of modeled climate feedback and contributions to temperature response and polar amplification
1 Jul 2011. Julia Crook, Piers Forster, Nicola Stuber - Spatial patterns of modeled climate feedback and contributions to temperature response and polar amplification
1 Jul 2011. Julia Crook, Piers Forster, Nicola Stuber - Evaluation of radiation scheme performance within chemistry climate models
18 May 2011. Piers Forster, Victor Fomichev, Eugene Rozanov, Chiara Cagnazzo, Andreas Jonsson, Ulrike Langematz, Boris Fomin, Michael Iacono, Bernhard Mayer, Eli Mlawer, Gunnar Myhre, Robert Portmann, Hideharu Akiyoshi, Victoria Falaleeva, Nathan Gillett, Alexey Karpechko, Jiangnan Li, Perrine Lemennais, Olaf Morgenstern, Sophie Oberländer, Michael Sigmond, Kiyotaka Shibata - Evaluation of radiation scheme performance within chemistry climate models
1 May 2011. Piers Forster - The annual cycle in lower stratospheric temperatures revisited
21 Apr 2011. S. Fueglistaler, P. H. Haynes, Piers Forster - Aerosol mass spectrometer constraint on the global secondary organic aerosol budget
16 Feb 2011. D. V. Spracklen, J. L. Jimenez, K. S. Carslaw, D. R. Worsnop, M. J. Evans, G. W. Mann, Q. Zhang, M. R. Canagaratna, J. Allan, H. Coe, G. McFiggans, A. Rap, Piers Forster - Changes in global-mean precipitation in response to warming, greenhouse gas forcing and black carbon.
16 Feb 2011. K. Frieler, M. Meinshausen, T.S. von Deimling, T. Andrews, Piers Forster - Stratospheric changes and climate
1 Jan 2011. Piers Forster, David Thompson, Mark Baldwin, Martyn Chipperfield, Martin Dameris, Joanna Haigh, David Karoly, Paul Kushner, Karen Rosenlof, Dian Seidel, Susan Solomon, Gufran Beig, Peter Braesicke, Neal Butchart, Nathan Gillett, Kevin Grise, Daniel Marsh, Charles McLandress, T. Narayan Rao, Seok-Woo Son, Georgiy Stenchikov, Shigeo Yoden, Eugene Cordero, Melissa Free, Andreas Jonsso, Jennifer Logan, David Stevenson - Estimating the climate impact of linear contrails using the UK Met Office climate model
1 Oct 2010. A. Rap, Piers Forster, J.M. Haywood, A. Jones, Olivier Boucher - Precipitation, radiative forcing and global temperature change
21 Jul 2010. Timothy Andrews, Piers Forster, Olivier Boucher, N. Bellouin, A. Jones - The transient response of global-mean precipitation to increasing carbon dioxide levels
28 Jun 2010. Timothy Andrews, Piers Forster - Parameterization of contrails in the UK Met Office Climate Model.
19 May 2010. A. Rap, Piers Forster, A. Jones, Olivier Boucher, J.M. Haywood, N. Bellouin, R.R. De Leon - On the accuracy of deriving climate feedback parameters from correlations between surface temperature and outgoing radiation
5 Apr 2010. Daniel Murphy, Piers Forster - Contrail microphysics
1 Apr 2010. Andrew Heymsfield, Darrel Baumgardner, Paul DeMott, Piers Forster, Klaus Gierens, and Bernd Kärcher - Issues and uncertainities affecting metrics for aviation impacts on climate
1 Apr 2010. Don Wuebbles, Piers Forster, Helen Rogers, Redina Herman - A regional and global analysis of carbon dioxide physiological forcing and its impact on climate
16 Feb 2010. Timothy Andrews, Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, Olivier Boucher, Piers Forster - Aerosol climate feedback due to decadal increases in Southern Hemisphere wind speeds
27 Jan 2010. H. Korhonen, K. S. Carslaw, Piers Forster, S. Mikkonen, N.D. Gordon, H. Kokkola - An empirical study of geographic and seasonal variations in diurnal temperature range
1 Jan 2010. Lawrence Jackson, Piers Forster - A case study of the radiative forcing of persistent contrails evolving into contrail-induced cirrus.
19 Dec 2009. J.M. Haywood, R.P. Allan, J. Bornemann, Piers Forster, P.N. Francis, S. Milton, G. Radel, A. Rap, K.P. Shine, R. Thorpe - An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950
9 Sep 2009. Daniel Murphy, S. Solomon, R.W. Portmann, Karen Rosenlof, Piers Forster, T Wong - On the role of radiative processes in stratosphere-troposphere coupling
1 Aug 2009. Kevin Grise, David Thompson, Piers Forster - Coupled chemistry climate model simulations of stratospheric temperatures and their trends for the recent past.
14 Jul 2009. J. Austin, R.J. Wilson, H. Akiyoshi, S. Bekki, N. Butchart, C. Claud, V.I. Fomichev, Piers Forster, R.R. Garcia, N.P. Gillett, P. Keckhut, U. Langematz, E. Manzini, T. Nagashima, W.J. Randel, E. Rozanov, K Shibata, K.P. Shine, H. Struthers, D.W.J. Thompson, F. Wu, S. Yoden - Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961-2001).
1 Jun 2009. Elisabeth Simelton, Evan Fraser, Mette Termansen, Piers Forster, Andy Dougill - A surface energy perspective on climate change
1 May 2009. Timothy Andrews, Piers Forster, Jonathan Gregory - Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century
19 Apr 2009. David Lee, David W. Fahey, Piers Forster, Peter Newton, Ron Wite, Ling Lim, Bethan Owen, Robert Sausen - Transient climate response estimated from radiative forcing and observed temperature change
10 Dec 2008. J.M. Gregory, Piers Forster - CO2 forcing induces semi-direct effects with consequences for climate feedback interpretations
16 Feb 2008. Timothy Andrews, Piers Forster
Working papers
- Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in Local Government in England and Germany
13 Jul 2015 - Tailoring the visual communication of climate projections for local adaptation practitioners in Germany and the UK
6 Feb 2015 - Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: A quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought
1 Aug 2011