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Overview

Mark New is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on climate change and its related impacts. Their research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics such as climate change impacts on agriculture, climate variability and models, climate change and health impacts, hydrology and drought analysis, sustainability and climate change governance, flood risk assessment and management, and climate change and geoengineering.

Mark New has contributed to various publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent papers include:

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment, 2021, One Earth
  • A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Interrogating 'effectiveness' in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice, 2021, Climate and Development
  • Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones, 2020, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • Interactions between climate and COVID-19, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health

Mark New collaborates frequently with several colleagues who have coauthored multiple papers, including Petra B. Holden, Sherilee L. Harper, Romaric C. Odoulami, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, and James D. Ford.

The scientist also has a book publication under the United Nations Environment Programme eBooks titled Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #8 published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation

    Lisa V. Alexander;Lisa V. Alexander;Lisa V. Alexander;X. Zhang;T. C. Peterson;J. Caesar

  • Ensemble forecasting of species distributions

    Miguel B. Araújo;Mark New

  • A European daily high-resolution gridded data set of surface temperature and precipitation for 1950-2006

    M. R. Haylock;N. Hofstra;A. M. G. Klein Tank;E. J. Klok

  • A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas

    Mark New;David Lister;Mike Hulme;Ian Makin

  • Representing Twentieth-Century Space-Time Climate Variability. Part II: Development of 1901-96 Monthly Grids of Terrestrial Surface Climate

    Mark New;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • Representing Twentieth-Century Space–Time Climate Variability. Part I: Development of a 1961–90 Mean Monthly Terrestrial Climatology

    Mark New;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years

    P. D. Jones;M. New;D. E. Parker;S. Martin

  • African climate change: 1900-2100

    Mike Hulme;Ruth M. Doherty;Todd Ngara;Mark G. New

  • Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and west Africa

    Mark New;Bruce Hewitson;David B. Stephenson;Alois Tsiga

  • Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity

    Daniel B. Botkin;Henrik Saxe;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard Betts

  • Precipitation measurements and trends in the twentieth century

    Mark New;Martin Todd;Mike Hulme;Phil Jones

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

  • Changes in daily temperature and precipitation extremes in central and south Asia

    A. M. G. Klein Tank;T. C. Peterson;D. A. Quadir;S. Dorji

  • A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change

    Lea Berrang-Ford;A. R. Siders;Alexandra Lesnikowski;Alexandra Paige Fischer

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

    Gina Ziervogel;Mark New;Emma Archer van Garderen;Guy Midgley

  • The UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Improving the Accessibility of Observed and Projected Climate Information for Studies of Climate Change in Developing Countries

    C. McSweeney;M. New;G. Lizcano;X. Lu

  • Comparison of six methods for the interpolation of daily, European climate data

    Nynke Hofstra;Malcolm Haylock;Mark New;Phil Jones

  • Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications.

    Mark New;Diana Liverman;Heike Schroder;Kevin Anderson;Kevin Anderson

  • Testing E-OBS European high-resolution gridded data set of daily precipitation and surface temperature

    Nynke Hofstra;Nynke Hofstra;Malcolm Haylock;Mark New;Phil D. Jones

  • The influence of interpolation and station network density on the distributions and trends of climate variables in gridded daily data

    Nynke Hofstra;Nynke Hofstra;Mark New;Carol McSweeney

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Noel Keenlyside
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen
Mathieu Rouault
Mathieu Rouault University of Cape Town
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Damian Lawler
Damian Lawler Coventry University
Nathalie Butt
Nathalie Butt University of Queensland
Gina Ziervogel
Gina Ziervogel University of Cape Town
James D. Ford
James D. Ford University of Leeds

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