Ed Hawkins

• Climate scientist in NCAS-Climate at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading.

• Part of the EU THOR programme, RAPID-WATCH RAPIT, and NERC EQUIP projects. Member of the Walker Institute.

• Decadal variability and predictability of climate, and particularly,
    - identifying optimal regions for ocean observations (more...)
    - statistical decadal predictions of sea surface temperatures (more...)
    - understanding fluctuations in the Atlantic overturning circulation (more...)

• Quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions and impacts (more...)
    - including an interactive website

Hawkins & Sutton, 2012, 'Time of emergence of climate signals', Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L01702, doi: 10.1029/2011GL050087 (or PDF)

Joshi, Hawkins, Sutton, Lowe & Frame, 2011, 'Projections of when temperature change will exceed 2°C above pre-industrial levels', Nature Climate Change, 1, 407-412, doi: 10.1038/nclimate1261

Hawkins & Sutton, 2011, 'The potential to narrow uncertainty in projections of regional precipitation change', Climate Dynamics, 37, 407-418, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0810-6 (or PDF). Interactive results website