David leads the team that produced the latest set of climate projections for the UK, UKCP09, that were launched by the government on 18th June 2009. Part of that role, is to liaise with government, users of the projections, and other organisations as part of a nationwide project management team. Feedback from users has formed the basis for the next stage of the project, UKCP09 Extras, where additional products, reports and functionality will be made available. David is currently writing up several papers on the method underpinning UKCP09.

David is now developing more powerful statistical techniques for making probabilistic projections of many variables at once, so that the probabilities capture the key relationships between the climate variables. Such statistical techniques will improve the efficiency of production, thereby allowing more development and testing. This work will also make it easier to use more observations to narrow the uncertainty.

David will also be helping to develop a prediction system based on many climate model simulations that makes climate projections from time scales of seasons to multidecadal