Pieter P. Tans
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Pieter P. Tans is an American physicist and climate change researcher. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He worked at NOAA's Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group from 1985 to 2019 and received a Roger Revelle Medal in 2010.
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Pieter P. Tans is an American physicist and climate change researcher. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He worked at NOAA's Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group from 1985 to 2019 and received a Roger Revelle Medal in 2010.
Affiliation
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Top Publications
- Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020) - 2,595 citations
- Observational Contrains on the Global Atmospheric Co 2 Budget (1990) - 2,120 citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022) - 1,936 citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2019 (2019) - 1,740 citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2018 (2018) - 1,709 citations
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- Full name
- Pieter P. Tans
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-9883-0787
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5046334496
Research interests
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
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- Global Carbon Budget 2020 ↗2020 · Earth system science data2,595OpenAlex citations
- 2,120OpenAlex citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2022 ↗2022 · Earth system science data1,936OpenAlex citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2019 ↗2019 · Earth system science data1,740OpenAlex citations
- Global Carbon Budget 2018 ↗2018 · Earth system science data1,709OpenAlex citations
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- Global Carbon Budget 2020 ↗2020 · Earth system science data
- Global Carbon Budget 2022 ↗2022 · Earth system science data
- Global Carbon Budget 2019 ↗2019 · Earth system science data
- Global Carbon Budget 2018 ↗2018 · Earth system science data
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