Pieter P. Tans
Environmental Research Laboratories
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303-3328
Tel: (303) 497-6811
Education
- Doctorandus, Theoretical Physics (cum laude)
- Ph.D. , Experimental Physics, Rijkusuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Research Interests
Past research: Magnetic impurities in an electron lattice gas; One-dimensional radiative climate model; High precision 14C counting; Stable isotopes in tree rings; Radioisotope detection with a cyclotron; Development of Raman scattering method to detect minute changes in the ratio of atmospheric O2 to N2.
Present: Biogeochemical cycles; Global climate change; Stable isotope applications; Atmospheric chemistry and transport; Inverse models; Air-sea exchange of gases; Development of new generation of accurate and robust gas analyzers
Employment History
1978-1979
Postdoc, Scripps Inst. Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, with C.D. Keeling.
1979-1985
Staff scientist, Astrophysics Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley.
1985-1990
Research Associate, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1990-1996
Supervisory Physicist, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder.
1996-present
Chief Scientist, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory.
Professional Service/Activities
1992-2000
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University
of Colorado at Boulder.
1992-1993
Committee on Oceanic Carbon, Ocean Studies Board, NRC
1995-1997
Dec-Cen Panel, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, NRC
1997-Present
CIRES fellow
1998-1998
Working Group drafting a multi-agency U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan
1996-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Climate
1997-Present
Editorial Advisory Board, Tellus B
1995-Present
Corresponding member, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
2000-Present
Gold Medal, Department of Commerce
2002-Present
ISI Highly Cited (248 most cited authors in the geosciences 1981-1999)
2004-Present
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Publications
Francey, R. J. and P. P. Tans, Latitudinal variation in oxygen-18 of atmospheric CO2, Nature 327, 495-497, 1987.
Tans, P. P., T. J. Conway, and T. Nakazawa, Latitudinal distribution of the sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide derived from surface observations and atmospheric transport model, J. Geophys. Res. 94, 5151-5172, 1989.
Tans, P. P., I. Y. Fung, and T. Takahashi, Observational constraints on the global atmospheric carbon dioxide budget, Science 247, 1431-1438, 1990.
Steele, L.P., E.J. Dlugokencky, P.M. Lang, P.P. Tans, R.C. Martin, and K.A. Masarie, Slowing down of the global accumulation of atmospheric methane during the 1980's, Nature, 358, 313-316, 1992.
Tans, P.P., J.A. Berry, and R.F. Keeling, Oceanic 13C/12C observations, a new window on CO2 uptake by the oceans, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, 7, 353-368, 1993.
Novelli, P.C., K.A. Masarie, P.P. Tans, and P.M. Lang, Recent changes in atmospheric carbon monoxide, Science, 263, 1587-1590, 1994.
Bender, M.L., P.P. Tans, J.T. Ellis, J. Orchardo, and K. Habfast, A high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry method for measuring the O2/N2 ratio of air, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 4751-4758, 1994.
Ciais, P., P.P. Tans, M. Trolier, J.W.C. White, and R.J. Francey, A large northern hemisphere terrestrial CO2 sink indicated by the 13C/12C ratio of atmospheric CO2, Science, 269, 1098-1102, 1995.
Battle, M., M. Bender, T. Sowers, P. Tans, J. Butler, J. Elkins, J. Ellis, T. Conway, N. Zhang, P. Lang, and A. Clarke, Atmospheric gas concentrations over the past century measured in air from firn at the South Pole, Nature 383, 231-235, 1996.
Tans, P.P., Why carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning won't go away, in: Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry, edited by D. Macalady, Ch. 12, pp. 271-291, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
Tans, P.P., The CO2 lifetime concept should be banished, Climatic Change, 37, 487-490, 1997.
Fan, S., M. Gloor, J. Mahlman, S. Pacala, J. Sarmiento, T. Takahashi, and P. Tans, A large terrestrial sink in North America implied by atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide data and models, Science 282, 442-446, 1998.
Bousquet, Philippe, Philippe Peylin, Philippe Ciais, Corinne le Quere, Pierre Friedlingstein, and Pieter Tans, Regional changes in carbon dioxide fluxes of land and oceans since 1980, Science 290, 1342-1346, 2000.
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