News about Geophysics

Marius Folden Simonsen

Title: Interglacial ice core dust from Greenland

Simone Juul Jakobsen

Modelling and Correction of an Artifact in the Mars Exploration Rover Panoramic Camera

Sonja Wahl

Title: Holocene Climate and Ice Flow of the Renland Ice Cap

Congratulations to Signe Hillerup Larsen

Congratulations to Signe Hillerup Larsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Thursday 14 December 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the…

Jan Haerter receives DKK 10 million for research on atmospheric complexity

Jan Haerter from the Atmospheric Complexity Group at the Niels Bohr Institute receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 10 million for research on cloud-cloud interaction and for better understanding of the climate…

Signe Hillerup Larsen

Dynamics of Upernavik Isstrøm - Controlling mechanisms of ice stream flow Advisors: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg and Andreas Peter Ahlstrøm

Congratulations to Niccolò Maffezzoli

Congratulations to Niccolò Maffezzoli at the Centre for Ice and Climate who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Thursday 12 October 2017, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

New generation ESA-satellites capable of revealing future sea level rises

NEGIS, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, splits into three gigantic glaciers - holding back ice masses equaling a global sea level rise of approx. one meter. ESA satellites can help reveal future sea increases.

Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age

Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the modern ozone hole, led to large-scale changes in

Peder Heiselberg

The effect on Agulhas Rings by the Southern Ocean wind stress

Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods

The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each representing an astounding mass of energy, equaling up to 240 Hiroshima-bombs. The next may happen as soon as 2018-19.

Naya Sophie Rye Jørgensen

Investigating Bimodal Variability of the Kuroshio with High Resolution Climate Model

Andy Morris

A Comparison of Equatorial Undercurrent: POP2 Model and Measurement

Congratulations to Troels Bøgeholm Mikkelsen

Congratulations to Troels Bøgeholm Mikkelsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday 17 May 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Congratulations to Lisbeth Tangaa Nielsen

Congratulations to Lisbeth Tangaa Nielsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday 8 May 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

New Ice core drilling in North Eastern Greenland

The first crew of researchers, technicians and students has arrived at the EastGRIP research camp on the Greenland ice cap, flown in by ski-equipped American Hercules planes, where they during the next 4 months will....

Congratulations to Malte Nordmann Winther

Congratulations to Malte Normann Winther at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Tuesday 31 January 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Thomas Søndergaard Eriksen

Determining the driving processes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation from CCSM data

Malte Normann Winther

Title: Trace gas evolution in the present and past atmosphere

Christine Hvidberg new Head of Studies

Christine Schøtt Hvidberg, associate professor of geophysics in Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been appointed as the new head of studies. She replaces Lise Arleth, who has been the head of studies sinc…

Congratulations to Arianna Marchionne

Congratulations to Arianna Marchionne who succesfully defended her PhD thesis at Centre for Ice and Climate on 3 November 2016.

Dion Häfner

Frictional Control of Cross-Equatorial Flow