Prof Peter Cox
Professor - Climate System Dynamics
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Telephone: 01392 725220
Current Role
- Professor of Climate System Dynamics within Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Exeter.
- Theme Leader for CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES.
- Research Group forms part of Exeter Climate Systems (XCS).
Current Research Interests
- Climate-carbon cycle feedbacks
- Dynamic Global Vegetation Modelling
- Impact of Atmospheric Pollutants on Ecosystem Services
- Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation
- Geoengineering
- Climate Tipping Points
- Maximum Entropy Production and the Earth System
Publications and Citations
Associated Postdocs and PhD Students
- Dr Cat Luke (Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation, NERC - NCEO)
- Jon Moore (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change, NERC - CEH)
- Lester Kwiatowski (Coral Reefs and Climate Change, Exeter EMPS - CCSF Studentship)
- Margriet Groenendijk (Land-Surface and the Hydrological Cycle, NERC- HYDRA)
- Dr Alessandro Anav (Validation of Climate-Carbon Cycle GCMs, EU - Greencycles II)
- Alex Marti-Donati (Nitrogen Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems, EU - Greencycles II)
- Zoe Thomas (Tipping Points in the Palaeoclimate Record, Exeter LES - CCSF Studentship)
Working Groups, Committees and Wider Recognition
- Lead-author on Chapter 7 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment report
- Founding member of the Coupled Climate-Carbon Cycle Intercomparison Project (C4MIP)
- Member of Royal Society Working Group on Ground-level Ozone in the 21st Century
- Highly-cited author in Global Warming Research
- Winner of Royal Met Soc Adrian Gill Award 2007
- Member of Royal Society Working Group on Geoengineering the Climate
TV Coverage
- "High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos" - BBC4, 14th October 2008
- "Climate Change: Britain Under Threat" - BBC1, 21st January 2007
- "Dimming the Sun" - PBS, 5th August 2006
- "Can We Save Planet Earth" - BBC1, 31st May 2006
- "Are We Changing Planet Earth" - BBC1, 24th May 2006
- "Global Dimming" - BBC1, Horizon, February 2005
- "The Venus Theory" - Finnish TV, 2004
- "The Day the Ocean Boiled" - Channel 4, Equinox, June 2001
Previous Jobs
Until September 2006, Prof Cox was the Science Director - Climate Change at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and prior to that he was at the Hadley Centre for Climate prediction and Research (1990-2004).
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Peter Cox
RID: B-3299-2012 University of Exeter |
| Most cited publications: |
| 1. Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model
Times Cited: 1112 (Web of Science®) |
| 2. Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models
Times Cited: 619 (Web of Science®) |
| 3. Climate-carbon cycle feedback analysis: Results from the C(4)MIP model intercomparison
Times Cited: 596 (Web of Science®) |
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