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Overview

Peter E. Thornton is a researcher affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the study of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and ecology. The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, environmental engineering, and environmental chemistry.

The main topics of Peter E. Thornton's research include climate variability and models, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Peter E. Thornton has been involved in research published in a variety of venues, with frequent publications in the following journals and platforms:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with the most frequent being:

  • Daniel Ricciuto
  • Fengming Yuan
  • Shih-Chieh Kao
  • Xiaoying Shi
  • J. Patrick Megonigal

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Peter E. Thornton include:

  • "Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6," 2020, published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4," 2020, published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  • "Gridded daily weather data for North America with comprehensive uncertainty quantification," 2021, published in Scientific Data
  • "The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing," 2020, published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

    P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain

    Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running;Michael A. White

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability

    Michael A. White;Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running

  • Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    Keith Oleson;Yongjiu Dai;B. Bonan;Mike Bosilovichm

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

  • A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

    Xiaofeng Xu;Peter E. Thornton;Wilfred M. Post

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of the BIOME–BGC Terrestrial Ecosystem Model: Net Primary Production Controls

    Michael A. White;Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani

  • Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests

    Peter E Thornton;Beverley E Law;Henry L Gholz;Kenneth L Clark

  • An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation

    Peter Edmond Thornton;Steven W Running

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Global Terrestrial Gross and Net Primary Productivity from the Earth Observing System

    Steven W Running;Peter Edmond Thornton;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Joseph Marion Glassy

  • Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States

    David S. Schimel;Jerry M. Melillo;Hanqin Tian;A. D. McGuire

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • Influence of carbon‐nitrogen cycle coupling on land model response to CO2 fertilization and climate variability

    Peter E. Thornton;Jean-François Lamarque;Nan A. Rosenbloom;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • The Partitioning of Evapotranspiration into Transpiration, Soil Evaporation, and Canopy Evaporation in a GCM: Impacts on Land–Atmosphere Interaction

    David M. Lawrence;Peter E. Thornton;Keith W. Oleson;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry

    Natalie Mahowald;Silvia Kloster;S. Engelstaedter;Jefferson Keith Moore

  • Carbon storage and fluxes in ponderosa pine forests at different developmental stages

    B. E. Law;P. E. Thornton;J. Irvine;P. M. Anthoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xiaofeng Xu
Xiaofeng Xu San Diego State University
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Katherine Calvin
Katherine Calvin Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert B. Cook
Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Louise Chini
Louise Chini University of Maryland, College Park

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