News about Geophysics

04. December 2023

Fortunat and Remi setting up the dual-tube snow sampling: photo O. Alemany

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs. Using 700 years’ worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists at the University of…

Dan Friis Tømmerby Jensen

Title: Numerically Modelling of the Seismic Responses from Fractures Inserted into a Caprock Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

Copenhagen’s safest bets for a dry weather bike ride

You have a 25% greater risk of cycling in the rain if you live in Hellerup than if saddling up in Ishøj. Two researchers from the University of Copenhagen and DTU took a closer look at where and when it rains most in an…

Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock

An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University of Copenhagen has attained their goal of drilling to the bottom of the ice sheet. It marks the first time that this has…

Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century

Important ocean current that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost parts of the Atlantic region will shut down around the year 2060 if current greenhouse gas emissions…

Rebekka Johansen

Title: A Diachronic Study of the Polar Front in the North Atlantic Region & it’s Connection to the North Atlantic Oscillation Supervisors: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen and Aksel Walløe Hansen

Bettina Loy

Title: Tests investigating potential implementation of oxygen isotope measurements in continuous flow analyses Supervisors: Thomas Blunier and Ida Lager (SLU)

Jonas Richard Damsgaard

Title: A Reconstructing of Melt Variability in Greenland for the Past 2000 Years Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Mads Lundsgaard Andersen

Title: Sensitivity of winter climatic conditions in Europe to various surface forcing in the EC-Earth model Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Atlas Lundbergh Varsted

Title: Predicting albedo in Greenland using Machine Learning Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Jesper Ejlebæk Holm

Title: Firn-air Modelling in the Community Firn Model Supervisors: Vasileios Gkinis and Michael Döring

Marie Cecilie Boysen

Title: The EGRIP Dustprofile: Investigating dust content of 40,000 year old Greenland ice. Supervisors: Helle Astrid Kjær and Anders Svensson

Bianca Eline Sandvik

Title: Impact of Wind Turbines on Local and Regional Winds Across Denmark Supervisors: Eigil Kaas and Harald Rieder (BOKU, Wienna)

Lærke Halkjær

Title:Analysis of water-, landspouts and tornadoes in Denmark Supervisors: Aksel Walløe Hansen and Sebastian Pelt

Niels Schøtt Hvidberg

Title: Anatomy of Abrupt Climate Change Supervisors: Sune Olander Rasmussen og Aslak Grinsted.

Maiken Kristiansen Revheim

Title: Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Water Vapour Fluxes from Automatic Weather Station Records. - A Study of Surface Water Vapour Fluxes in a Changing Climate Supervisors: Christine S. Hvidberg, Jason Box (GEUS)

Andrea Vang

Title: Linking Large Scale Atmospheric Modes of Variability with Fluctuations in the Atlantic Ocean Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Matea Elise Marinkovic

Thesis Title: Tropical Cyclones in the Southwest Indian Ocean and Their Impacts on Vanilla Cultivation in Madagascar Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

More knowledge on the complexity of ice sheets will improve calculations of future sea-level rises

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded nearly DKK 42 million to Professor Christine Schøtt Hvidberg for developing models for calculating how the ice sheets will contribute to future sea-level rises.

Alfred Bendtzon Hansen

Title: Multistability and tipping points in very high-dimensional systems and implications for abrupt climate change Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen and Johannes Lohmann

Alicja Barbara Kalucka

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

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