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News on Geophysics

Climate physics:

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections internationally

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen gathered the data from the ice…

Climate change:

Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes

Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called…

Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time

For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland's ice sheet that are so…

Climate change:

PICE Copenhagen joins large scale joint effort in the arctic within the Danish Commonwealth

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has awarded just below 37 million kr to a targeted…

Climate physics:

Sea level will rise faster than previously thought

NBI researchers have constructed a new method of quantifying just how fast the sea will react to…

Climate research:

The Catcher in the Ice

A new device used to extract gas trapped in ice cores by sublimation will shave hours off the time…

Climate research:

The Niels Bohr Institute kick starts a new generation of climate scientists

There is a pressing need for skilled climate scientists with excellent insight into advanced…

Climate physics:

The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt…

Grant for developing long term weather predictions in Denmark

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), received a grant from the Independent Research…

Study delivers new knowledge about what causes thunderstorms and cloud bursts

Thunderstorms often provoke violent cloud bursts that can result in devastating flooding. But what…