Peter Thorne

Research interests

Publications

• Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

  Earth system science data · 2025 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2641-2025

• Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

  Earth system science data · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2625-2024

• Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

  Earth system science data · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2295-2023

• IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

  Journal · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.59327/ipcc/ar6-9789291691647.001

• IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

  Journal · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.59327/ipcc/ar6-9789291691647

• Unlocking Pre-1850 Instrumental Meteorological Records: A Global Inventory

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0040.1

• Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

  Journal of Climate · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-16-0836.1

• Estimating Changes in Global Temperature since the Preindustrial Period

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0007.1

• Further Exploring and Quantifying Uncertainties for Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) Version 4 (v4)

  Journal of Climate · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-15-0430.1

• Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

  Journal of Climate · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00006.1

• Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

  Journal · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.7930/j0kw5cxt

• Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4): Part II. Parametric and Structural Uncertainty Estimations

  Journal of Climate · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00007.1

• HadISDH land surface multi-variable humidity and temperature record for climate monitoring

  Climate of the past · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1983-2014

• Climate Change 2013. The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Abstract for decision-makers

  Journal · 2013

• U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-12-00170.1

• Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jd016263

• Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.80

• Low‐frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2009jd012442

• Reanalyses Suitable for Characterizing Long-Term Trends

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1175/2009bams2858.1

• Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

  International Journal of Climatology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1756

• Recent Changes in Surface Humidity: Development of the HadCRUH Dataset

  Journal of Climate · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1175/2008jcli2274.1

• Understanding and Attributing Climate Change

  Journal · 2007

• Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence

  Nature · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06207

• Revisiting radiosonde upper air temperatures from 1958 to 2002

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2004jd005753

• Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

  Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1114867

Current projects

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