Peter E. Thornton

Researcher, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Joined

May 2025

Names

Peter E. Thornton (Preferred)

Emails

****@ornl.gov (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ornl.gov)

2008 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Steven W. Running

1992 – 1998

Expertise

Earth system modeling

biogeochemistry

1990 – Present

Publications

PHASE: Physics‑Integrated, Heterogeneity‑Aware Surrogates for Scientific Simulations
Dawei Gao, Dali Wang, Zhuowei Gu, Qinglei Cao, Xiao Wang, Peter E. Thornton, Daniel Ricciuto, Yunhe Feng
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Kilometer-Scale E3SM Land Model Simulation over North America
Dali Wang, Chen Wang, Qinglei Cao, Peter Schwartz, Fengming Yuan, Jayesh Krishna, Danqing Wu, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Peter E. Thornton, Shih-Chieh Kao, Michele Thornton, Kathryn M. Mohror
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
An ultrahigh-resolution E3SM land model simulation framework and its first application to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska
Fengming Yuan, Dali Wang, Shih-Chieh Kao, Michele Thornton, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Verity Salmon, Colleen Iversen, Peter Schwartz, Peter E. Thornton
- J. Comput. Sci. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Developing Ultrahigh-Resolution E3SM Land Model for GPU Systems
Peter Schwartz, Dali Wang, Fengming Yuan, Peter E. Thornton
- ICCSA (1) 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Ultrahigh-Resolution E3SM Land Modeling on Exascale Computers
Dali Wang, Peter Schwartz, Fengming Yuan, Peter E. Thornton, Weijian Zheng
- Comput. Sci. Eng. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Developing an ELM Ecosystem Dynamics Model on GPU with OpenACC
Peter Schwartz, Dali Wang, Fengming Yuan, Peter E. Thornton
- ICCS (1) 2022
- Readers: Everyone
SPEL: Software tool for Porting E3SM Land Model with OpenACC in a Function Unit Test Framework
Peter Schwartz, Dali Wang, Fengming Yuan, Peter E. Thornton
- WACCPD@SC 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring the Use of Novel Programming Models in Land Surface Models
Ethan T. Coon, Wael R. Elwasif, Himanshu Pillai, Peter E. Thornton, Scott L. Painter
- PAW-ATM@SC 2019
- Readers: Everyone
WIP: Live Restructuring of Data Architecture
Walton Macey, Dali Wang, Peter E. Thornton, Audris Mockus
- SE4Science@ICSE 2017
- Readers: Everyone
A Scientific Function Test Framework for Modular Environmental Model Development: Application to the Community Land Model
Dali Wang, Tomislav Janjusic, Colleen Iversen, Peter E. Thornton, Misha Karssovski, Wei Wu, Yang Xu
- SE4HPCS@ICSE 2015
- Readers: Everyone

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