Timothy Osborn

{{Short description|Climatologist}}

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| fields = Climatology

| workplaces = University of East Anglia

| alma_mater = University of East Anglia

| thesis_title = Internally-generated variability in some ocean models on decadal to millennial timescales

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.297045

| thesis_year = 1995

| doctoral_advisor = Tom Wigley

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| known_for = Director, Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

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| awards = Hugh Robert Mill Prize (2002)

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| website = [https://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/t-osborn Professor Timothy Osborn]

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Timothy John Osborn is a climatologist and Professor of Climate Science at the University of East Anglia.{{cite web|title=Professor Timothy Osborn|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/t-osborn|website=University of East Anglia|access-date=30 September 2014}} In January 2017 he replaced Phil Jones as the Research Director of the Climatic Research Unit.{{cite press release |url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/tim-osborn-to-take-over-leadership-of-cru |title=Tim Osborn to take over leadership of CRU |publisher=University of East Anglia |date=2016-12-21 |access-date=2016-12-23 }}

Osborn graduated with a first-class degree in Geophysical Sciences from the University of East Anglia in 1990, and a PhD from the School of Environmental Sciences in 1995. He was awarded the Hugh Robert Mill Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society in 2002.{{cite web|title=Hugh Robert Mill Prize|url=http://www.rmets.org/our-activities/awards/hugh-robert-mill-prize|website=Royal Meteorological Society|access-date=30 September 2014}} He was a Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report{{cite web|title=WORKING GROUP I - Chapter 5|url=http://www.climatechange2013.org/contributors/chapter/chapter-5|website=Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|access-date=30 September 2014}} and a Review Editor of the Sixth Assessment Report.{{Cite web|title=IPCC Authors (beta)|url=https://apps.ipcc.ch/report/authors/report.authors.php?q=35&p=|access-date=2021-08-08|website=apps.ipcc.ch}}