| Peter Thorne | |
| Fields: | Climatology |
| Workplaces: | Maynooth University NERSC National Climatic Data Center Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research |
| Alma Mater: | University of East Anglia |
| Thesis Title: | Advancing climate change detection and attribution studies in the free atmosphere |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393306 |
| Thesis Year: | 2001 |
| Website: | Peter 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]