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2023

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96
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Overview

Keith R. Briffa was affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research centered around environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as global and planetary change and atmospheric science.

The primary topics covered in their work included:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics

Briffa contributed to the academic literature with a notable publication titled Cod and climate: the spatial and temporal context, which was published in 2025 through the UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia).

Throughout their career, Briffa collaborated with several researchers, among whom frequent co-authors were:

  • Robert R. Dickson
  • Timothy J. Osborn

The main venue for Briffa's publications was the UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia).

Best Publications

  • The Physical Science Basis

    E Jansen;J Overpeck;KR Briffa;JC Duplessy

  • On the Average Value of Correlated Time Series, with Applications in Dendroclimatology and Hydrometeorology

    T. M. L. Wigley;K. R. Briffa;P. D. Jones

  • Global warming and changes in drought

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Gerard van der Schrier;Gerard van der Schrier;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region

    Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Anita Jurkovic;Wolfgang Lipa

  • Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years

    Keith R. Briffa;Philip D. Jones;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Timothy J. Osborn

  • Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains

    T. C. Atkinson;K. R. Briffa;G. R. Coope

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: Interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures

    P. D. Jones;K. R. Briffa;T. P. Barnett;S. F. B. Tett

  • Fennoscandian summers from ad 500: temperature changes on short and long timescales

    Keith Briffa;Philip Jones;T.S. Bartholin;D. Eckstein

  • Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes

    Keith Briffa;F.H. Schweingruber;Philip Jones;Timothy Osborn

  • The evolution of climate over the last millennium.

    P. D. Jones;T. J. Osborn;K. R. Briffa

  • Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

    Darrell S. Kaufman;David P. Schneider;Nicholas P. McKay;Caspar M. Ammann

  • Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network

    Keith R. Briffa;Timothy J. Osborn;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Ian C. Harris

  • The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies:

    Edward R. Cook;Keith R. Briffa;David M. Meko;Donald A. Graybill

  • Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees

    Keith R Briffa

  • A 1,400-year tree-ring record of summer temperatures in Fennoscandia

    K. R. Briffa;T. S. Bartholin;D. Eckstein;P. D. Jones

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • The ‘Little Ice Age’: Re-evaluation of an evolving concept

    John A. Matthews;Keith R. Briffa

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • Basic chronology statistics and assessment

    KR Briffa;PD Jones

  • A “signal-free” approach to dendroclimatic standardisation

    Thomas M. Melvin;Keith R. Briffa

  • SPATIAL REGRESSION METHODS IN DENDROCLIMATOLOGY: A REVIEW AND COMPARISON OF TWO TECHNIQUES

    Edward R. Cook;Keith R. Briffa;Philip D. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Timothy J. Osborn
Timothy J. Osborn University of East Anglia
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Raymond S. Bradley
Raymond S. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tom M. L. Wigley
Tom M. L. Wigley University of Adelaide
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann Pennsylvania State University
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
Bo M Vinther
Bo M Vinther University of Copenhagen

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