News about Geophysics

Alicja Kalucka

Title: Reservoir computer-based detection of AMOC tipping Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Henk Dijkstra

Rasmus Ranum Hansen

Title: Solving the turbulence closure problem II: Determining the deep ocean stratification Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Dorthe Dahl Jensen awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Seligman Crystal

Lana Zupancic

Title: Shallow Subsurface Imaging: A Geophysical Investigation using Integrated Methods Supervisors: Mohammad Youssof and Klaus Mosegaard

Bjarke Brask Nielsen

Title: Propagtion of blobs in NORTH - A study of NORTH Using Langmuir probes Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen, Stefan Kragh Nielsen

Jonas Dornonville de la Cour

Title: A Massively Parallel Lockstep Pipeline For Full Isomerspace Optimisation Supervisors: Markus Jochum and James Avery

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…

Josephine Gondán Kande

Title: An analysis of weather systems under certain flow patterns in the atmosphere for our latitudes. Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Sune Halkjær & Jonathan Ortved Melcher

Title: Understanding millennial-scale climate change with simple dynamical systems. Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen

The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years

Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when compared to 1000 years of reconstructed climate conditions on the ice sheet.

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Title: Bipolar Phasing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glacial Period Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Anna Ida Katharina Kirchner

Title: North Atlantic Circulation Variability and Teleconnections to Surface Climate Conditions in CMIP6 Models Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Earth’s many new lakes

The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a unique global survey of 3.4 million lakes that the University of Copenhagen has taken part in. There has been a particular…

Dorthe Dahl Jensen 2022 Balzan prize winner

Congratulations to Dorthe Dahl Jensen for being awarded the 2022 Balzan prize

Anna Puggard

Title: Greenland snow accumulation estimates from Sentinel-1 Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Jon Arrizabalaga Iriarte & Lide Lejonagoitia Garmendia

Master's project: Firn densification under arbitrary stresses Supervisors: Aslak Grinsted, Christine S. Hvidberg, Nicholas M. Rathmann

Jiamei Lin

Global volcanism as seen in ice cores during the last glacial cycle Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Congratulations to Jiamei Lin

Congratulations to Jiamei Lin at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 18 November 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber

Congratulations to Tamara Gerber at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended her PhD thesis 15th of September, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over…

Tamara Annina Gerber

Ice flow signatures on small and big scales Supervisors: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Sune Olander Rasmussen

Ngo Ying Lo

Title: The Need for Speed - An Investigation of bottlenecks towards optimization of EC-Earth3-HR (on CRAY XC50) Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Emma Karin Lyeteg Lund

Embodying Systems Thinking: An in-depth investigation into five climate change-professionals’ experience of Alexander Technique Supervisors: Lise Tjørring and Anders Svensson

Elloise Jensen Fangel-Lloyd

Title: Fewer storms as a consequence ofclimate change - Decreasing baroclinicity observed in Lorenz energetics and EOF analyses of climate data Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Eigil Kaas