Peter Thorne (climatologist)
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 a Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.[8]
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- ↑ "Next steps in climate science". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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- ↑ "International Surface Temperature Initiative". ISTI - Surface temperature.
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- ↑ "GAIA-CLIM Horizon 2020". GAIA-CLIM.
- ↑ "WORKING GROUP I - Chapter 2". Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved 30 September 2014.