Climatic Research Unit
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The Climatic Research Unit is a component of the University of East Anglia and is one of the leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
The Hubert Lamb Building, University of East Anglia, where the Climatic Research Unit is based
Hubert Lamb
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Hubert Horace Lamb was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.
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…The UK Government (Margaret Thatcher) became a strong supporter of climate research in the mid-1980s. The first director of the unit was Professor Hubert Lamb, who had previously led research into climatic variation at the Met Office. He was then known as the "ice man" for his prediction of global cooling and…
Hubert Lamb