Sarah Christian Broun Raper (born 3 July 1952) is a climatologist who is currently a Research Fellow at

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. She graduated from the School of Environmental Sciences at the

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in 1974 and completed her PhD on Hurricanes and Climate Change at the

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(CRU) in 1978. She subsequently became a Senior Research Associate at the CRU, funded by the US Department of Energy. She co-authored the MAGICC model (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas induced Climate Change) which gives future global temperature and sea-level over the next century in response to

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. The MAGICC model has been used by all the IPCC reports to date and is used as the climate module for many Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). She contributed to the

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reports and was a lead author on the Projections chapters of the

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and Fourth Assessment Reports. She has an

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of 55 according to

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1952 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of East Anglia Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors British climatologists {{Climate-bio-stub