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The Climatic Research Unit is widely recognised as one of the
world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural
and anthropogenic climate change.
Consisting of a staff of around thirty research scientists and
students, the Unit has developed a number of the data sets
widely used in climate research, including the global
temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate
system, as well as statistical software packages and climate
models.
The aim of the Climatic Research Unit is to improve scientific understanding
in three areas:
- past climate history and its impact on humanity;
- the course and causes of climate change during the present century;
- prospects for the future.
The Unit undertakes both pure and applied research, sponsored
almost entirely by external contracts and grant from academic
funding councils, government departments, intergovernmental
agencies, charitable foundations, non-governmental
organisations, commerce and industry.
Alongside its research activities, the Unit has an educational
role through its contribution to formal teaching with the School
of Environmental Sciences (most notably, the MSc in Climate
Change) and various forms of in-service training including
postgraduate education. It is regarded as an authoritative
source of information on both the science and policy aspects of
climate change by the media and maintains a high public profile.
[Summary Extracted from the CRU Home Page]
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