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UEA - University of East Anglia
The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is a research centre in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich.

The school was graded 5* during the last national Research Assessment Exercise. At present, CRU is composed of around 20 research staff, and 14 postgraduate students. Over the last 30 years, CRU has gained a worldwide reputation for the study of climate, climatic change, the impacts of climate change and applied climatology. It has provided Co-ordinating Lead Authors for all four of the IPCC Assessment Reports (Working Groups I and II).

CRU has become extensively involved in the study of anthropogenically-induced climate change and is at the forefront of work in the analysis and understanding of observed climate change and variability, climate scenario development and downscaling and in impacts on natural systems and socio-economic/technical activities.