Publications for Peter E. Thornton, with links to electronic versions where available

Publications (principle authorship):

Thornton, P.E., B.E. Law, H.L. Gholz, K.L. Clark, E. Falge, D.S. Ellsworth, A.H. Goldstein, R.K. Monson, D. Hollinger, M. Falk, J. Chen, J.P. Sparks, 2002. Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 113: 185-222. PDF

Thornton, P.E., H. Hasenauer, and M.A. White, 2000. Simultaneous estimation of daily solar radiation and humidity from observed temperature and precipitation: an application over complex terrain in Austria. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 104: 255-271. PDF

Thornton, P.E., and S.W. Running, 1999. An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 93: 211-228. PDF

Thornton, P.E., 1998. Regional ecosystem simulation: combining surface- and satellite-based observations to study linkages between terrestrial energy and mass budgets. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Forestry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT., 280 pp. PDF (scan)

Thornton, P.E., S.W. Running, and M.A. White, 1997. Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain. Journal of Hydrology, 190: 214-251. PDF (scan)

Thornton, P.E., and S.W. Running, 1996. Generating daily surfaces of temperature and precipitation over complex topography. Pp. 93-98, in GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues, M.F. Goodchild, L..T. Steyaert, B.O. Parks, C. Johnston, D. Maidment, M. Crane, and S. Glendinning, Eds. GIS World Books, Ft. Collins, CO.

Publications (co-authorship):

Law, B.E., O.J. Sun, J. Campbell, S. VanTuyl, P.E. Thornton, submitted. Changes in carbon storage and fluxes in a chronosequence of ponderosa pine. Global Change Biology (in review).

Hasenauer, H., K. Merganicova, R. Petritsch, S. Pietsch, P.E. Thornton, submitted. Validating daily climate interpolations of complex terrain in Austria. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (in review).

Churkina, G., J. Tenhunen, P.E. Thornton, J.A. Elbers, M. Erhard, E.M. Falge, T. Grünwald, A.S. Kowalski, and U. Rannik, 2002. Analyzing the ecosystem carbon dynamics of four European coniferous forests using a biogeochemistry model. Ecosystems (in press).

Fujita, D., M. Ishizawa, S. Maksyutov, P.E. Thornton, T. Saeki, T. Nakazawa, in press. Inter-annual variability of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations as simulated with global terrestrial biosphere models and an atmospheric transport model. Tellus (in press).PDF (preprint)

Nemani, R.R., M.A. White, P.E. Thornton, K. Nishida, S. Reddy, J. Jenkins, S.W. Running, 2002. Recent trends in hydrologic balance have enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink in the United States. Geophysical Research Letters 2002GL014867. PDF

White, M.A., R.R. Nemani, P.E. Thornton, S.W. Running, 2002. Satellite evidence of phenological differences between urbanized and rural areas of the eastern United States deciduous broadleaf forest. Ecosystems 5: 260-277. PDF

Law, B.E., P.E. Thornton, J. Irvine, P.M. Anthoni, S. Van Tuyl, 2001. Carbon storage and fluxes in ponderosa pine forests at different developmental stages. Global Change Biology, 7: 755-777. PDF

Running, S.W., P.E. Thornton, R.R. Nemani, and J.M. Glassy, 2000. Global Terrestrial Gross and Net Primary Productivity from the Earth Observing System. In: Methods in Ecosystem Science, O. Sala, R. Jackson, and H. Mooney, Eds. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Schimel, D., J. Melillo, H. Tian, A.D. McGuire, D. Kicklighter, T. Kittel, N. Rosenbloom, S. Running, P.Thornton, D. Ojima, W. Parton, R. Kelly, M. Sykes, R. Neilson, and B. Rizzo, 2000. The contribution of increasing CO₂ and climate to carbon storage by natural and agricultural ecosystems of the US 1980-1993. Science, 287: 2004-2006. PDF

White, M.A., P.E. Thornton, and S.W. Running, 2000. Parameterization and sensitivity analysis of the Biome-BGC terrestrial ecosystem model. Earth Interactions, 4(3): 1-85. PDF

White, M.A., S. W. Running, and P.E. Thornton, 1999. The impact of growing-season length variability on carbon assimilation and evapotranspiration over 88 years in the eastern US deciduous forest. Int. J. Biometeorology 42:139-145. PDF

White, J.D., S.W. Running, P.E. Thornton, R.E. Keane, K.C. Ryan, D.B. Fagre, and C.H. Key, 1998. Assessing simulated ecosystem processes for climate variability research at Glacier National Park, USA. Ecological Applications, 8(3):805-823. PDF

White, M.A., P.E. Thornton, and S.W. Running, 1997. A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 11: 217-234. PDF (scan)

Kimball, J.S., P.E. Thornton, M.A. White, and S.W. Running, 1997. Simulating forest productivity and surface-atmosphere carbon exchange in the BOREAS study region. Tree Physiology, 17: 589-599. PDF

W.J. Parton, A. Haxeltine, P. Thornton, R. Anne, and M. Hartman, 1996. Ecosystem sensitivity to land-surface model and leaf area index. Global and Planetary Change, 13:89-98.

Mahfouf, J.-F., C.Ciret, A. Ducharne, P. Irannejad, J. Noilhan, Y. Shao, P.Thornton, Y. Xue, and Z.L. Yang, 1996. Analysis of transpiration results from the RICE and PILPS workshop. Global and Planetary Change, 13: 73-88.

Shao, Y., R. Anne, A. Henderson-Sellers, P. Irannejad, P. Thornton, X. Liang, T. Chen, C. Ciret, C. Desborough, O. Balachova, A. Haxeltine, and A. Ducharne, 1994. Soil moisture simulation: A report on the RICE and PILPS workshop. International GEWEX Project Office Publication Series, No. 14. World Climate Research Programme.