[2] He previously worked at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and the National Climatic Data Center, and he was a senior scientist at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway.
[3][4] He is the chair of the International Surface Temperature Initiative which consists of an interdisciplinary effort to create a suite of improved Land Surface Air Temperature products to meet science needs and societal expectations in the era of climate services.
[5] Thorne is co-chair of the GCOS Working Group on the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN),[6] and he is also the project lead on the Horizon 2020 GAIA-CLIM project[7] which aims to use such measurements to better characterise satellite measurements.
He is one of the 831 Lead Authors[8] of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
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