11 Facts About Keith Briffa

Keith Raphael Briffa was a climatologist and deputy director of the Climatic Research Unit.

Keith Briffa authored or co-authored over 130 scholarly articles, chapters and books.

Keith Briffa helped develop data sets from trees from Canada, Fennoscandia, and northern Siberia which have been used in climate research.

Keith Briffa grew up in Speke, and attended St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool.

Keith Briffa studied biological sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Keith Briffa completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia entitled "Tree-climate relationships and dendroclimatological reconstruction in British Isles" in 1984.

From 1994 to 2000, Keith Briffa served on the scientific steering committee of the PAGES project; more recently he served on SSCs for the UK NERC Rapid Climate Change and the European Science Foundation's HOLIVAR program.

Keith Briffa served as Lead Author on chapter 6 of working group I of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Keith Briffa previously served as associate editor of the scholarly journals The Holocene, Boreas and Dendrochronologia.

Keith Briffa had an h-index of 81 according to Semantic Scholar.

Keith Briffa died in 2017 after a number of bouts of cancer.