Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.[1]
Peter Thorne | |
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| Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Climatology |
| Institutions | Maynooth University NERSC National Climatic Data Center Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research |
| Thesis | Advancing climate change detection and attribution studies in the free atmosphere (2001) |
| Website | Peter W. Thorne |
He graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in 1998, and a PhD from the School of Environmental Sciences in 2001.[2] He previously worked at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and the National Climatic Data Center, and he was a senior scientist at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway.[3][4] He is the chair of the International Surface Temperature Initiative which consists of an interdisciplinary effort to create a suite of improved Land Surface Air Temperature products to meet science needs and societal expectations in the era of climate services.[5] Thorne is co-chair of the GCOS Working Group on the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN),[6] and he is also the project lead on the Horizon 2020 GAIA-CLIM project[7] which aims to use such measurements to better characterise satellite measurements. He is one of the 831 Lead Authors[8] of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.[9]
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- ^ "Peter Thorne". Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
- ^ "Peter Thorne". North Carolina State University. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "Next steps in climate science". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "Peter W. Thorne". NERSC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "International Surface Temperature Initiative". ISTI - Surface temperature.
- ^ "GCOS Reference Upper Air Network". GRUAN.
- ^ "GAIA-CLIM Horizon 2020". GAIA-CLIM.
- ^ IPCC Factsheet: How does the IPCC select its authors?
- ^ "WORKING GROUP I - Chapter 2". Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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