News about Climate

Prominent professor named as Head of Scientific Research at Denmark’s National Centre for Climate Research

Floods, cloudbursts, heatwaves; the climate of the future will be more extreme. On assuming the position of Head of Scientific Research at the National Centre for Climate Research at DMI on 1 March 2021, renowned…

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Peter Birch Sørensen in new expert committee

A Danish expert group to determine the framework for a uniform CO2e tax has now been set up. Department of Economics take 2 of the 6 seats in the expert proup.

Arctic permafrost releases more CO2 than once believed

There may be greater CO2 emissions associated with thawing Arctic permafrost than ever imagined. An international team of researchers, including one from the University of Copenhagen, has discovered that soil bacteria…

Misguided sense of balance exacerbates climate scepticism

Many of us may have inadvertently contributed to the growing climate scepticism of recent years, a widespread phenomenon fuelled by “system errors” built into journalism, social media and parliamentary debates. A new…

19.5 Mio to Crops For The Future

Professor Birger Lindberg Møller is a key collaborator in a new Semper Ardens project focusing on Sorghum with Carlsberg Research Laboratory and University of Queensland, Australia.

Wood formation can now be followed in real-time - and possibly serve the climate and builders of tomorrow

A genetic engineering method makes it possible to observe how woody cell walls are built in plants. The new research in wood formation, conducted by the University of Copenhagen and others, opens up the possibility of…

Ella Jacobsen

Analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of plastics in the Baltic Sea Supervisor: Markus Jochum

David Aaron Soestmeyer

Local temperature reconstruction from gas trapping processes in the Dye 3 ice core from Greenland Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Your organic waste will be upcycled to fertilise fields

Researchers behind a major EU project will develop technologies that make it easier to convert organic waste in our compostable trash bags into fertiliser. UCPH researcher says that agriculture sector needs to tackle…

Lara Möllney

Patterns of Dust-borne Iron Fertilization at the Last Glacial Maximum Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck

Surface velocity and ice thickness of the Müller ice cap, Axel Heiberg Island Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt climate change during the glacial period. It also documents that the cause of the swiftness and extent of sudden climate…

Project will create new narratives about open landscapes

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, a major research project will address land use change in Danish agricultural sector by working with local narratives about the open landscape.

New flood validation data collected in Adenta and Legon

Richard and Allotey collected additional data for evaluation of the local flood models in Adenta, Legon and Okponglo. Click to see maps and photos from the survey locations.

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to provide us with a much longer perspective on the general weather situation in Denmark.

Lilja Dahl

Source-Apportionment of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds, Halogenated Species and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases at Mt. Cimone (Italy) by applying Positive Matrix Factorization with a Lifetime Correction Method…

Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms

Within the scientific community, it is estimated that artificial intelligence — otherwise meant to serve as a means to effectively combat climate change — will become one of the most egregious CO2 culprits should curren…

Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination of artificial intelligence and detailed satellite imagery allowed a team from the University of Copenhagen and…

Study delivers new knowledge about what causes thunderstorms and cloud bursts

Thunderstorms often provoke violent cloud bursts that can result in devastating flooding. But what actually spawns thunderstorms and cloud bursts? This question has spurred a new study by researchers at the University o…

Falk Oraschewski

Modelling of firn densification in the presence of horizontal strain rates Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Knowledge about the past can preserve the biodiversity of tomorrow

Climate change threatens plants and animals across the planet. Interdisciplinary research by, among others, climate and biodiversity researchers at the University of Copenhagen, has mapped responds of biodiversity cause…

Proven: Historical climate changes occurred simultaneously in several parts of the world

A new study published by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and partner institutions has proven that repeated and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age occurred simultaneously in South America,…

Wiebke Margitta Kolbe

Testing the usage of neural networks in the shortwave radiation parameterization of the WRF model Supervisor: Eigil Kaas

New study warns: We have underestimated the pace at which the Arctic is melting

Arctic sea ice is melting more quickly than once assumed. Today’s climate models have yet to incorporate the steep rise in temperatures that have occurred over the past 40 years. This, according to a new study by…