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British climatologist (born 1965)
Myles Robert Allen
CBE
FRS
FInstP (born 11 August 1965)
[1] is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the
University of Oxford 's
School of Geography and the Environment , and head of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.
[2]
[3]
Education
Allen was educated at the
British School in the Netherlands
[1] and the
University of Oxford where he was awarded a
Master of Arts degree in
Physics and
Philosophy in 1987
[1] followed by a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.
[4] He was a student of
St. John's College, Oxford .
[1]
Career
As well as his position as Professor of Geosystem science at Oxford, he is the Principal Investigator of the
distributed computing project
Climateprediction.net (which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public), and was principally responsible for starting this project.
[5]
[6] He is the Director of the
Oxford Net Zero initiative
[7] and a
Fellow of
Linacre College, Oxford .
[8]
Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the
United Nations Environment Programme , the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
[2]
He contributed to the
Third Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author of the Chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes,
[9] and was a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a co-author of the IPCC October 8, 2018
Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C .
[10]
[11] His research
[12] focuses on the
attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for
global climate simulations of the future.
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
Allen also provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World , which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years".
[18]
In 2015, he mentioned that
carbon capture and storage (CCS) should be made mandatory.
[19]
Awards and honours
In 2010, Allen was awarded the
Edward Appleton Medal and Prize by the
Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".
[20]
Allen was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours for services to climate change attribution and prediction and net-zero.
[21] He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.
[22]
Personal life
Allen married
Irene Tracey in 1994 and has three children.
[1]
References
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h Anon (2023).
"Allen, Prof. Myles Robert" .
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254480 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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a
b
"Dr Myles Allen - University of Oxford" . Archived from
the original on 30 December 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2010 . Myles Allen profile at the University of Oxford
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The Guardian articles by Allen:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must keep its eye on the ball ;
Generals must give us their exit strategy for climate change
^ Allen, Myles Robert (1992).
Interactions between the atmosphere and oceans on time scales of weeks to years . ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
OCLC
61666921 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.335863 .
^ Stainforth, D. A.; Aina, T.; Christensen, C.; Collins, M.; Faull, N.; Frame, D. J.; Kettleborough, J. A.; Knight, S.; Martin, A.; Murphy, J. M.; Piani, C.; Sexton, D.; Smith, L. A.; Spicer, R. A.; Thorpe, A. J.; Allen, M. R. (2005).
"Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases" (PDF) . Nature . 433 (7024): 403–406.
Bibcode :
2005Natur.433..403S .
doi :
10.1038/nature03301 .
PMID
15674288 .
S2CID
2547937 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 17 September 2005.
^ Piani, C.; Frame, D. J.; Stainforth, D. A.; Allen, M. R. (2005).
"Constraints on climate change from a multi-thousand member ensemble of simulations" (PDF) . Geophysical Research Letters . 32 (23): L23825.
Bibcode :
2005GeoRL..3223825P .
doi :
10.1029/2005GL024452 .
S2CID
56227360 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 9 February 2012.
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"Home" . Net Zero Climate . Retrieved 25 October 2022 .
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"Professor Myles Allen" . School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Retrieved 30 May 2012 .
^ Mitchell, J.F.B.; Karoly, D.J.; Hegerl, G.C.; Zwiers, F.W.; Allen, M.R.; Marengo, J. (2001).
"Chapter 12. Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes" . IPCC Third Assessment Report .
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Archived from
the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009 .
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Summary for Policymakers (PDF) , Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), nd, retrieved 8 October 2018 , "IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global
greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
^ Allen, Myles;
Dube, Opha Pauline ; Solecki, William (7 October 2018).
Chapter 1: Framing and Context . Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (Report).
Incheon ,
Republic of Korea :
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Retrieved 7 October 2018 .
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https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=myles+allen Myles Allen in
Google Scholar
^ Allen, M. R.; Ingram, W. J. (2002). "Constraints on future changes in climate and the hydrologic cycle". Nature . 419 (6903): 224–232.
Bibcode :
2002Natur.419..224A .
doi :
10.1038/nature01092 .
PMID
12226677 .
S2CID
916557 .
^ Stott, P. A.; Stone, D. A.; Allen, M. R. (2004). "Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003". Nature . 432 (7017): 610–614.
Bibcode :
2004Natur.432..610S .
doi :
10.1038/nature03089 .
PMID
15577907 .
S2CID
13882658 .
^ Tett, S. F. B.; Stott, P. A.; Allen, M. R.; Ingram, W. J.; Mitchell, J. F. B. (1999). "Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface". Nature . 399 (6736): 569–572.
Bibcode :
1999Natur.399..569T .
doi :
10.1038/21164 .
S2CID
4431997 .
^ Forest, C. E.; Stone, P. H.; Sokolov, A. P.; Allen, M. R.; Webster, M. D. (2002). "Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate System Properties with the Use of Recent Climate Observations". Science . 295 (5552): 113–117.
Bibcode :
2002Sci...295..113F .
CiteSeerX
10.1.1.297.1145 .
doi :
10.1126/science.1064419 .
PMID
11778044 .
S2CID
5322736 .
^ Allen, M. R.; Stott, P. A.; Mitchell, J. F. B.; Schnur, R.; Delworth, T. L. (2000). "Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change". Nature . 407 (6804): 617–620.
Bibcode :
2000Natur.407..617A .
doi :
10.1038/35036559 .
PMID
11034207 .
S2CID
4426713 .
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"About Fate of the World" . fateoftheworld.net/about . 4 March 2011. Archived from
the original on 4 March 2011.
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"Fossil fuel companies 'should be made to invest in carbon capture and storage' " .
The Guardian . 2 July 2015.
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"Appleton medal recipients" . Institute of Physics. p. 1. Retrieved 26 August 2010 .
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"No. 63571" .
The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N8.
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"Myles Allen" . royalsociety.org . Retrieved 26 May 2023 .
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