Peter Thorne
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Scientific career
FieldsClimatology
InstitutionsMaynooth University
NERSC
National Climatic Data Center
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
ThesisAdvancing climate change detection and attribution studies in the free atmosphere (2001)
WebsitePeter W. Thorne

Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.[1]

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Thorne". Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Peter Thorne". North Carolina State University. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Next steps in climate science". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Peter W. Thorne". NERSC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "International Surface Temperature Initiative". ISTI - Surface temperature.
  6. ↑ "GCOS Reference Upper Air Network". GRUAN.
  7. ↑ "GAIA-CLIM Horizon 2020". GAIA-CLIM.
  8. ↑ IPCC Factsheet: How does the IPCC select its authors?
  9. ↑ "WORKING GROUP I - Chapter 2". Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved 30 September 2014.


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