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 |
Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.
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. 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. 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. Thorne is co-chair of the GCOS Working Group on the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN), and he is also the project lead on the Horizon 2020 GAIA-CLIM project which aims to use such measurements to better characterise satellite measurements. He is one of the 831 Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
References
- "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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