News about Climate

Is the corona pandemic supporting or crowding out the attention towards green transition?

New grant: Researchers from Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) will investigate how the corona crisis affects the climate change debate on three major social media platforms in Scandinavia.

New Danish and Icelandic Ocean Research Center

New ocean research center opens at the University of Copenhagen with support from the Carlsberg Foundation. The center is led by Professor Katherine Richardson from the GLOBE Institute.

Kasper Tølløse

Development and implementation of a neural network based PBL turbulence parameterization scheme Supervisor: Eigil Kaas

Janani Venkatesh

An improved Gas-CFA system for methane measurements and preliminary results from the Dye-3 ice core Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Studies Of Dansgaard-Oeschger Climate Events From Greenland Ice Cores Supervisor: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Sociologists to investigate experiences with climate-friendly food

Sociologists will look into experiences with climate-friendly food and social norms around the meal. The new research project is a collaboration between Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, and Denmark’s…

Laurits S. Andreasen

Time scales of the Bipolar seesaw: The role of oceanic cross-hemisphere signals, Southern Ocean eddies and wind changes Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Climate change resulting in bigger and more destructive hurricanes in the USA

During the last 100 years hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive, new research from the University of Copenhagen shows.

Estelle L. Ngoumtsa

A new reconstruction of climatic impurities in the Sub-Antarctic region - Continuous Flow Analysis of the SubICE firn cores: Mertz, Siple, Bouvet, Peter-First, Young Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Vallelonga

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age

Researchers from the section Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) have succeeded in making a method to enlighten an otherwise dark period in climate history.

Steffen Ole Randrup Kristensen

Extending the Veros climate simulator with biochemistry - Model design and AMOC collapse Supervisors: Brian Vinter & Markus Jochum

Ida Margrethe Ringgaard

Sensitivity of Arctic sea ice change on climate in the coupled climate model EC-Earth Supervisors: Eigil Kaas, Shuting Yang, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Floriane Océane Sudre

Sensitivity to Friction Changes: the Case of an Idealized Gullmarn Fjord Supervisors: Markus Jochum and Herbert Formayer

The civics of urban greening: topics, tendencies and tensions from the frontlines of sustainable transition

As part of a new special issue, 12 articles on research from Department of Sociology have just been published in the online magazine ‘Discover Society.'

Marta A. Mrozowska

On the connection between upwelling, opal deposit rates and atmospheric CO2 concentration Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Filippo Botta

The ecology of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Karl Nyman

Bifurcations of relaxation oscillations in models of the middle Pleistocene transition of glacial cycles Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points

Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tipping points.

Michelle Shu-Ting Lee

Climate proxies based on the NEEM ice core for the Holocene period 4000-7000 years B2K: An integrated CFA and IEC method for the NEEM brittle zone Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Travis Vallelonga

Mirjam Martina Läderach

Continuous flow analysis on EastGRIP ice core: Optimization of optical dye method and results from acidity measurements on the EastGRIP ice core Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Paul Travis Vallelonga

Olga Lia Dimopoulou

Observations of Turbulent Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Søren Borg Nielsen

Oceanic Vertical Mixing, Marine Biogeochemistry and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Martin Olesen

High resolution climate simulation Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Carlos Francisco Castro Soto Reyes

The crustal and sedimentary structure of the Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, derived from seismic reflection and refraction data Academic advisor: Klaus Mosegaard