List of works - Peter Thornton

A Scientific Function Test Framework for Modular Environmental Model Development: Application to the Community Land Model

A functional test platform for the Community Land Model

article

A microbial functional group-based module for simulating methane production and consumption: Application to an incubated permafrost soil

article

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

scholarly article

An Integrative Model for Soil Biogeochemistry and Methane Processes: I. Model Structure and Sensitivity Analysis

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

Analysis of transpiration results from the RICE and PILPS workshop

article

Analyzing the Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics of Four European Coniferous Forests Using a Biogeochemistry Model

article

Assessment of Reanalysis Daily Extreme Temperatures with China’s Homogenized Historical Dataset during 1979–2001 Using Probability Density Functions

article

Biogeochemical modeling of CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> production in anoxic Arctic soil microcosms

scientific article published in 2016

Biospheric feedback effects in a synchronously coupled model of human and Earth systems

article

Causes of spring vegetation growth trends in the northern mid–high latitudes from 1982 to 2004

article

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

article

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

scientific article published on March 2000

Convergence of microbial assimilations of soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

DAYCENT national-scale simulations of nitrous oxide emissions from cropped soils in the United States.

scientific article published on 6 July 2006

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR COMPLEX MODELS VIA BAYESIAN COMPRESSIVE SENSING

Deriving a Transformation Rate Map of Dissolved Organic Carbon over the Contiguous U.S

scientific article published on 2 April 2024

Desert dust and anthropogenic aerosol interactions in the Community Climate System Model coupled-carbon-climate model

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

article

Ecosystem sensitivity to land-surface models and leaf area index

scientific article

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

scientific article

Evaluation of the Community Land Model simulated carbon and water fluxes against observations over ChinaFLUX sites

article

Evaluation of the New CNDV Option of the Community Land Model: Effects of Dynamic Vegetation and Interactive Nitrogen on CLM4 Means and Variability*

article

Extending a land-surface model with &lt;i&gt;Sphagnum&lt;/i&gt; moss to simulate responses of a northern temperate bog to whole ecosystem warming and elevated CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;

scientific article published in 2021

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

scientific article

From land use to land cover: restoring the afforestation signal in a coupled integrated assessment–earth system model and the implications for CMIP5 RCP simulations

article

Global Latitudinal-Asymmetric Vegetation Growth Trends and Their Driving Mechanisms: 1982–2009

Greenhouse Gas Policy Influences Climate via Direct Effects of Land-Use Change

article

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

scientific article

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

article by G. C. Hurtt et al published 9 August 2011 in Climatic Change

Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

article

Incorporating phosphorus cycling into global modeling efforts: a worthwhile, tractable endeavor

scientific article

Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake

scientific article

Integrating Arctic Plant Functional Types in a Land Surface Model Using Above‐ and Belowground Field Observations

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Interactive effects of environmental change and management strategies on regional forest carbon emissions

scientific article

Leaf respiration (GlobResp)--global trait database supports earth system models

scientific article

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

article

On linking an Earth system model to the equilibrium carbon representation of an economically optimizing land use model

article

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

Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling

scientific article

Practical Application of Parallel Coordinates for Climate Model Analysis

Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

scholarly article by Andrew D. Jones et al published 27 October 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Recent trends in hydrologic balance have enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink in the United States

scholarly article by Ramakrishna Nemani et al published 15 May 2002 in Geophysical Research Letters

Remote Sensing Evaluation of CLM4 GPP for the Period 2000–09*

Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Reviews and syntheses: Four decades of modeling methane cycling in terrestrial ecosystems

article

Simulated Hydrological Dynamics and Coupled Iron Redox Cycling Impact Methane Production in an Arctic Soil

scientific article published in 2022

Simultaneous estimation of daily solar radiation and humidity from observed temperature and precipitation: an application over complex terrain in Austria

scholarly article by Peter Thornton et al published September 2000 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Spatiotemporal patterns of evapotranspiration in response to multiple environmental factors simulated by the Community Land Model

article

Substrate and environmental controls on microbial assimilation of soil organic carbon: a framework for Earth system models

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Supplementary material to "Deriving a Transformation Rate Map of Dissolved Organic Carbon over the Contiguous U.S."

scientific article published on 2 April 2024

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Terrestrial biogeochemistry in the community climate system model (CCSM)

Terrestrial ecosystem process model Biome-BGCMuSo v4.0: summary of improvements and new modeling possibilities

scientific article published in 2016

The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model

article

The Effects of Phosphorus Cycle Dynamics on Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Amazon Region: A Modeling Study Using ELM v1

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

The Impact of Parametric Uncertainties on Biogeochemistry in the E3SM Land Model

The impact of climate, CO2, nitrogen deposition and land use change on simulated contemporary global river flow

scholarly article

The impact of growing-season length variability on carbon assimilation and evapotranspiration over 88 years in the eastern US deciduous forest

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

The sensitivity of the forest carbon budget shifts across processes along with stand development and climate change

article

Timing and magnitude of C partitioning through a young loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) stand using 13C labeling and shade treatments

scientific article

Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model

scientific article published on 09 September 2021

Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

article

VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimatic database. I. Gridded historical (20th century) climate for modeling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA

article

Volcano impacts on climate and biogeochemistry in a coupled carbon–climate model

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites

scientific article

List of works by Peter Thornton

A Scientific Function Test Framework for Modular Environmental Model Development: Application to the Community Land Model

A functional test platform for the Community Land Model

A microbial functional group-based module for simulating methane production and consumption: Application to an incubated permafrost soil

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

An Integrative Model for Soil Biogeochemistry and Methane Processes: I. Model Structure and Sensitivity Analysis

Analysis of transpiration results from the RICE and PILPS workshop

Analyzing the Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics of Four European Coniferous Forests Using a Biogeochemistry Model

Assessment of Reanalysis Daily Extreme Temperatures with China’s Homogenized Historical Dataset during 1979–2001 Using Probability Density Functions

Biogeochemical modeling of CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> production in anoxic Arctic soil microcosms

Biospheric feedback effects in a synchronously coupled model of human and Earth systems

Causes of spring vegetation growth trends in the northern mid–high latitudes from 1982 to 2004

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

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

Convergence of microbial assimilations of soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in terrestrial ecosystems

DAYCENT national-scale simulations of nitrous oxide emissions from cropped soils in the United States.

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR COMPLEX MODELS VIA BAYESIAN COMPRESSIVE SENSING

Deriving a Transformation Rate Map of Dissolved Organic Carbon over the Contiguous U.S

Desert dust and anthropogenic aerosol interactions in the Community Climate System Model coupled-carbon-climate model

Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

Ecosystem sensitivity to land-surface models and leaf area index

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

Evaluation of the Community Land Model simulated carbon and water fluxes against observations over ChinaFLUX sites

Evaluation of the New CNDV Option of the Community Land Model: Effects of Dynamic Vegetation and Interactive Nitrogen on CLM4 Means and Variability*

Extending a land-surface model with &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Sphagnum&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; moss to simulate responses of a northern temperate bog to whole ecosystem warming and elevated CO&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

From land use to land cover: restoring the afforestation signal in a coupled integrated assessment–earth system model and the implications for CMIP5 RCP simulations

Global Latitudinal-Asymmetric Vegetation Growth Trends and Their Driving Mechanisms: 1982–2009

Greenhouse Gas Policy Influences Climate via Direct Effects of Land-Use Change

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

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

Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

Incorporating phosphorus cycling into global modeling efforts: a worthwhile, tractable endeavor

Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification

Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake

Integrating Arctic Plant Functional Types in a Land Surface Model Using Above‐ and Belowground Field Observations

Interactive effects of environmental change and management strategies on regional forest carbon emissions

Leaf respiration (GlobResp)--global trait database supports earth system models

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

On linking an Earth system model to the equilibrium carbon representation of an economically optimizing land use model

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

Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling

Practical Application of Parallel Coordinates for Climate Model Analysis

Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire

Recent trends in hydrologic balance have enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink in the United States

Remote Sensing Evaluation of CLM4 GPP for the Period 2000–09*

Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

Reviews and syntheses: Four decades of modeling methane cycling in terrestrial ecosystems

Simulated Hydrological Dynamics and Coupled Iron Redox Cycling Impact Methane Production in an Arctic Soil

Simultaneous estimation of daily solar radiation and humidity from observed temperature and precipitation: an application over complex terrain in Austria

Spatiotemporal patterns of evapotranspiration in response to multiple environmental factors simulated by the Community Land Model

Substrate and environmental controls on microbial assimilation of soil organic carbon: a framework for Earth system models

Supplementary material to "Deriving a Transformation Rate Map of Dissolved Organic Carbon over the Contiguous U.S."

TRY - a global database of plant traits

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Terrestrial biogeochemistry in the community climate system model (CCSM)

Terrestrial ecosystem process model Biome-BGCMuSo v4.0: summary of improvements and new modeling possibilities

The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model

The Effects of Phosphorus Cycle Dynamics on Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Amazon Region: A Modeling Study Using ELM v1

The Impact of Parametric Uncertainties on Biogeochemistry in the E3SM Land Model

The impact of climate, CO2, nitrogen deposition and land use change on simulated contemporary global river flow

The impact of growing-season length variability on carbon assimilation and evapotranspiration over 88 years in the eastern US deciduous forest

The sensitivity of the forest carbon budget shifts across processes along with stand development and climate change

Timing and magnitude of C partitioning through a young loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) stand using 13C labeling and shade treatments

Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model

Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimatic database. I. Gridded historical (20th century) climate for modeling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA

Volcano impacts on climate and biogeochemistry in a coupled carbon–climate model

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites

Extending a land-surface model with <i>Sphagnum</i> moss to simulate responses of a northern temperate bog to whole ecosystem warming and elevated CO<sub>2</sub>