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- Strategic Goals: Science, Facilities & Technology
- 1. Exploring atmospheric, Earth system, and solar processes, variability, and change
- 2. Investigating the interaction of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
- 3. Improving prediction of weather, climate, and other atmospheric phenomena
- 4. Developing community models
- 5. Enabling innovative field experiments and measurement campaigns
- 6. Developing new instrumentation
- Research Catalog
Peter Thornton
General Information
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CGD - TIIMES
Scientist II
BEACHON - BGS
Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: ML - 202B
Telephone: 303-497-1727
Email: thornton@ucar.edu
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Research Focus FY08:
Example annual mean flux and state variables from final 25 a of control simulations for C-N (Experiment CN) and carbon-only (Experiment C) model configurations. (a) Net primary production (NPP). (b) Total vegetation carbon (Cveg). (c) Total soil organic matter carbon (CSOM).
High resolution figure
My research over the past year has continued to focus on the interactions between carbon and nitrogen cycles in terrestrial ecosystems, and how this coupling affects feedbacks within the climate system.
Publications FY08 (abstracts):
Oleson, K. W., G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, D. M. Lawrence, P. Thornton, P. Lawrence, R. Stockli, R. Dickinson, G. Bonan, S. Levis, A. Dai, T. Qian, 2008: Improvements to the community land model and their impact on the hydrological cycle. J. Geophys. Res., 113, G01021, doi: 10.1029/2007JG000563.
Stockli, R., D. M. Lawrence, G. Y. Niu, K. W. Oleson, P. E. Thornton, Z. L. Yang, G. B. Bonan, A. S. Denning, and S. W. Running. 2008. Use of FLUXNET in the community land model development. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2007JG000562.
Thornton, P. E., J.-F. Lamarque, N. A. Rosenbloom, N. M. Mahowald, 2007: Influence of carbon-nitrogen cycle coupling on land model response to CO2 fertilization and climate variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB4018, doi: 10.1029/2006GB002868.