News about Geophysics

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

Katharina Scheidt

Title: Modeling Paleotemperatures from Stable Nitrogen Isotopes with the Community Firn Model Supervisors:Dr. Vasileios Gkinis, Dr. Michael Döring & Dr. Guido Vettoretti

Øyvind Andreas Winton

Title: Scientific machine learning for discovering basal dynamics of Greenland outlet glaciers Supervisors: Aslak Grindsted, Allan P. Engsig-Karup & Sebastian B. Simonsen

New method to map the surface of the moon increases accuracy to unprecedented levels

This new method uses a much more direct and precise calculation, it doesn’t rely on a whole set of parameters to be fed into the computer, and it can even calculate the uncertainties and the accuracy.

Giulia Sinnl

Improved ice-core chronologies and synchronization of climate records for a better understanding of the global climate Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen Co-supervisors: Raimund Muscheler & Mai Winstrup

Dana Lüdemann

Impact of snow albedo parameterization over the Greenland ice sheet on the simulated climate of EC-Earth3 Supervisor: Eigil Kaas

Helene Pehrsson

Master's project: Greenland in a warmer world: A modelling study of the Greenland ice sheet Supervisor: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Magnus Quaade Oddershede

Master thesis: Modelling of Ocean Turbulence: Effects of resolution on predictive power of ocean models Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Tommaso Ferrari

Integration of Image Data for Improvement of Laser Altimetry of Mars Using Inverse Problems Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

Peter Valentin Ukkonen

Improving the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency of atmospheric radiative transfer computations by using machin elearning and code optimization Supervisor: Eigil Kaas, (NBI) and PhD Kristian Pagh Nielsen (DMI)

Martin Froelund

Perturbation Methods in Ensemble Weather Forecasts Supervisor: Peter Ditlevsen

Simon Peter Heselschwerdt

An analysis of the consistency between observed atmospheric winter variability and weather anomalies in the North Atlantic region Supervisor: Jens H. Christensen

Danish astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather

A Danish astrophysics student at the Niels Bohr Institute has used a mathematical approach to unveil how global temperature increase engenders locally unstable weather on Earth.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen awarded Hans Egede Medal

On Wednesday, ice core researcher Dorthe Dahl-Jensen was awarded the Hans Egede Medal for her research into Earth’s climate history. Her research has included longer stays on Greenland's deserted ice sheet and offers a…