Dr Christopher Jones
PhD, MSc, BA
Expertise
Current positions
Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) Faculty Position
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
Chris Jones is a Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and a Research Fellow at the Met Office Hadley Centre.
He has 30 years experience as a Climate Scientist, and his interests focus on interactions between climate and the natural carbon cycle, and how this informs international climate mitigation policy.
He has been a regular contributor to the IPCC as contributing and lead author, and recently part of the Core Writing Team for the 2023 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report. He is a Highly Cited researcher on Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/27729
Publications
Selected publications
09/01/2023Irreversible loss in marine ecosystem habitability after a temperature overshoot
Modifying emissions data and projections to incorporate the effects of lockdown in climate modelling
The Climate Response to Emissions Reductions due to COVID-19
Terrestrial Biological Nitrogen Fixation in CMIP6 Models
Recent publications
18/03/2025Climate Stabilisation Under Net Zero CO 2 Emissions
Earth's Future
Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO 2 uptake in Earth system models
Communications Earth & Environment
Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks
Nature
Bringing it all together: Science and modelling priorities to support international climate policy
Earth system responses to different levels of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation
Frontiers in Climate
