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Rona Thompson

Senior scientist, Norwegian Institute for Air Research

Senior scientist, Norwegian Institute for Air Research My main research interest lies in determining the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other climate-related atmospheric species, in particular, CO2, CH4, and N2O. For this, I use a combination of atmospheric measurements and models of atmospheric transport with statistical optimisation techniques to determine the best estimates of the sources/sinks of different atmospheric species. Moreover, I am trying to improve understanding of anthropogenic emissions and natural sources/sinks and the influence of environmental factors on these. I am also the developer of the Bayesian inversion tool, FLEXINVERT, for the estimation of surface to atmosphere fluxes of atmospheric species.