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Journal Papers Daron, J. D., Lorenz, S., Wolski, P., Blamey, R. C. and C. Jack (2015) Intepreting climate data visualisations to inform adaptation decisions. Climate Risk Management, 10, 17-26

Daron, J. D. and D. A. Stainforth (2015) On quantifying the climate of the nonautonomous Lorenz-63 model. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25(4) 043103

Daron, J. D. (2014) Challenges in using a Robust Decision Making approach to guide climate change adaptation in South Africa. Climatic Change, 132(3), 459-473 Journal Copy

Daron, J. D., Sutherland, K., Jack, C. and B. C. Hewitson (2014) The role of regional climate projections in managing complex socio-ecological systems. Regional Environmental Change, 15, 1-12

Daron, J. D. and D. A. Stainforth (2014) Assessing pricing assumptions for weather index insurance in a changing climate. Climate Risk Management, 1, 76-91

Daron, J. D. and D. R. Colenbrander (2014) A critical investigation of evaluation matrices to inform coastal adaptation and planning decisions at the local scale. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 58(12), 2250-2270

Ylhaisi, J. S., L. Garre, J. Daron and J. Raisanen (2014) Quantifying sources of climate uncertainty to inform risk analysis for climate change decision-making. Local Environment, 20(7), 811-835

Daron, J. D. and D. A. Stainforth (2013) On predicting climate under climate change. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3) 034021

Hewitson, B., J. D. Daron, R. G. Crane, F. Zermoglio and C. Jack (2013) Interrogating empirical-statistical downscaling. Climatic Change, 122(4), 539-554

Mustelin, J., N. Kuruppu, A. Matus Kramer, J. Daron, K. de Bruin and A. Guerra-Noriega (2013) Climate adaptation research for the next generation. Climate and Development, 5(3), 189-193

C. Singh, Daron, J. D., A. Bazaz, M. Zaroug, J. Krishnaswamy, G. Ziervogel, D. Spear and E Kituyi. The utility of climate information for decision making in developing countries: current uses and future prospects in Southern Africa and India. (In preparation for submission to Climate and Development)

PhD Thesis Daron, J. D. (2012) Examining the decision-relevance of climate model information for the insurance industry. PhD Thesis, London School of Economics, U.K.

Conference Papers European Geosciences Union, Vienna, April 2014: How big should a climate model ensemble be? Lessons from a low dimensional system. J. D. Daron and D. A. Stainforth.

Southern African Adaptation Colloquium, SANBI, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2013: Visualising climate information in Africa.

International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013, Brussels, Belgium, November 2013: The use of different visualisations of climate model output to communicate climate risk information to users across Africa.

12th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (IMSC), Jeju, South Korea, June 2013: The role of initial condition ensembles in quantifying model climate under climate change.

JRC-IRI workshop on index insurance and food security, Ispra, Italy, May 2012: Combining multiple sources of climate information to guide the design of weather index insurance. Published in workshop proceedings, April 2013.

South African Society for Atmospheric Science annual conference, Cape Town, September 2012: Defining climate under climate change.

Society of South African Geographers biennial conference, Cape Town, June 2012: Embracing uncertainty in climate change adaptation decisions.

Adaptation Futures Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 2012: Examining the decision-relevance of climate model information for the insurance industry.

European Geosciences Union, Vienna, May 2010: Using simple chaotic models to interpret climate under climate change: implications for probabilistic climate prediction.

Royal Meteorological Society student conference, Reading University, UK, July 2009: Providing useful climate model information for the insurance industry.

European Geosciences Union, Vienna, April 2008: Towards shadowing techniques for the evaluation and interpretation of climate models. J. D. Daron and D. A. Stainforth.

Other presentations and articles Climate & Development Knowledge Network, September 2014: Contextualising climate services in Maputo and Accra

The Adaptation Network, April 2014: Meeting the challenges of climate change in Botswana

Chinese Meteorological Administration visit to the UK, Canary Wharf, London, December 2010: Extracting decision-relevant information from climate models for adaptation

Internship at the UK Hadley Centre, Climate Impacts Team, September 2009 to February 2010: Probabilistic networks for climate risk

Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway, November 2008: Using simple models to guide the evaluation and interpretation of climate model output: Lessons from Lorenz

Blog Articles 27 June 2014: And the winner is...

12 February 2014: CSAG Carbon Footprint for 2013

11 November 2013: CORDEX 2013: International Conference on Regional Climate

30 June 2013: The location, variance and shape of statistical climatology

3 January 2013: Is it because of climate change?

6 June 2012: Climate Adaptation Futures 2012

12 April 2012: Towards an African Geosciences Union

30 March 2012: Planet Under Pressure: Day 4

29 March 2012: Planet Under Pressure: Day 3

28 March 2012: Planet Under Pressure: Day 2

27 March 2012: Planet Under Pressure: Day 1

12 March 2012: Ethiopia's head start on delivering climate services in Africa

22 February 2012: Regional climate predictions, projections or possibilities?

14 February 2012: Another negative impact we could all do without

1 February 2012: Climate change is an initial condition problem too!

27 January 2012: Getting the right people in the room

23 January 2012: What is in store for 2012?

18 January 2012: Results of the CSAG COP 17 Decision Game

12 January 2012: When are climate model predictions good enough?

9 January 2012: Balancing climate change adaptation and maladaptation