abstract:Keith R. Briffa (born 1952) is a climatologist employed since 1977 by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, of which he is currently deputy director.
KeithBriffa, from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, said the tropical ocean regions were among the more reliable areas from which to infer large-scale temperature changes.
"I tried hard to balance the needs of the science with the IPCC, which were not always the same, " wrote East Anglia climatologist KeithBriffa to Penn State's Michael Mann in April 2007.