Nyhetsarkiv / News archive
- Commentary in Nature Astronomy on the use of Python 2021-04-22 In a commentary and reply paper in Nature Astronomy, French and German researchers P. Augier, C. F. Bolz-Tereick, S. Guelton, and MISUs Ashwin Mohanan defend the use of Python in scientific codes.
- ‘Dust bowl’ heatwaves more than twice as likely 2020-05-29 New study shows that heatwaves like the 1930s Dust Bowl in the US are more than twice as likely due to climate change.
- Orsaken bakom variationen i Arktis istäcke klarlagd 2019-10-31 Det är det svårspådda vädret, inte isens reflexionsförmåga, som ligger bakom varför istäcket vid Nordpolen varierar så mycket från år till år, även om trenden på lång sikt är att isen minskar på grund av Jordens uppvärmning. Det visar ny forskning från Stockholms universitet och Max Planckinstitutet för meteorologi i Tyskland.
- FORCeS - new project on air pollution and its effect on climate 2019-05-09 Annica Ekman, Department of Meteorology, and Ilona Riipinen, Department of Environmental Sciences and Analytical Chemistry, are coordinating a new Horizon 2020 project on how air pollution affects climate
- Communicating uncertainty 2019-08-29 Mitigation of the current climate changes requires profound and immediate action. But there are still many uncertainties on how rapidly the climate will change. In a new interdisciplinary research project funded by Formas Frida Bender at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University together with the philosopher Per Wikman from KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology) will study these uncertainties and how they influence decision making.
- New research on how clouds affect the climate 2019-08-29 How clouds affect the climate is one of the greatest uncertainties in future climate projections. To study the clouds in a novel way Frida Bender at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University have received a grant from the Swedish Research Council.
- Oceanographic research in cooperation with seals 2019-10-31 Etienne Pauthenet is defending his Doctoral thesis on the distribution of temperature and salinity in the Southern Ocean at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University. To collect data for his research he has used elephant seals living in the Antarctic region.
- Notilucent cloud voids - a mystery 2018-10-31 Jacek Stegman at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University has placed a camera on the roof of the Department to take photos of noctilucent clouds during the short summernights of Stockholm. Going through the material he found a perfect set of photos of noctilucent clouds with an unusual feature called “ice void". These photos has led him to dismiss previous theories of how the void in the clouds appear and how it functions.
- Ulrike Lohmann 2018-10-30 Ulrike Lohmann Professor in Atmospheric Physics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been appointed an Honorary doctorate at Stockholm University in 2018. She will recieve her Honorary doctorate at a ceremony at Stockholm City hall on September 28.
- Arctic Ocean Dynamics Workshop 2018-11-09 A team of experts on Arctic Ocean dynamics gathered in Stockholm to discuss some current scientific challenges.
- Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award to Gabriele Messori 2018-11-27 Gabriele Messori, research scientist at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University, will receive the European Geosciences Union award for Outstanding Early Career Scientist in Atmospheric Sciences. The award was assigned in recognition of his work on extreme weather events, combining analysis approaches from different disciplines.
- The last newsupdate from the Arctic 2018-10-26 The Arctic Ocean 2018 expeditions is over! Many thanks to the crew of the Oden and the the logistics staff from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, who made it all transcend from though to reality, and to all other friends on board.
- A unique multidisciplinary project 2019-08-28 A unique cooperation between the Department of Meteorology and the Department of Economic History and International Relations looks at what determines the amount of aid given to ease the consequences of climate-related natural disasters.
- News from our expedition in the Arctic 2018-10-01 Having left the ice camp in a hurry to avoid adverse weather, we arrive in the marginal ice zone in the middle of night. We will now lie still here for two days completing some of the measurements and also starting to secure equipment for the open ocean voyage south.
- News from our expedition in the Arctic 2018-10-04 Follow our researchers on their expedition in the Arctic.
- News from the Arctic expedition 2018-10-04 Follow the news of our expedition in the Arctic.
- MISU's expedition in the Artctic 2018-10-04 Follow the news of our expedition in the Arctic.
- Arctic expedition 2018 2018-10-04 Follow our researchers on their expedition in the Arctic.
- Welcome to the Crafoord Days 2018 in Geosciences 2018-04-24 The 2018 Crafoord laureates in Geosciences, Syukuro Manabe and Susan Solomon, are awarded for their fundamental contributions to climate research. Join the prize lectures in Lund and the symposium in Stockholm.
- Bolin Centre Summer School 2018 2018-04-26 Apply until May 18th!
- Honorary doctorate for Ulrike Lohmann 2018-05-23 Ulrike Lohmann, guest professor at MISU during the autumn term 2017, awarded an honorary doctorate by Stockholm University.
- Meet climate researchers at the Bolin Climate Festival 2018-04-23 The yearly Bolin Climate Festival is a great opportunity to meet researchers, learn more about climate change and what we can do about it in a playful way. There will be lots of activities, lectures and citizen science during the festival centred around the Geoscience building.
- New Swedish research satellite will measure stratospheric winds 2018-03-09 The Swedish Space Board has decided that SIW, (Stratospheric Inferred Winds) will follow MATS as the new Swedish Innosat Research Satellite.
- How a “shadow zone” traps the world’s oldest ocean water 2017-11-15 New research from an international team has revealed why the oldest water in the ocean in the North Pacific has remained trapped in a shadow zone around 2km below the sea surface for over 1000 years.
- Tillförlitligheten i långa och korta väderprognoser 2017-11-07 Långa väderprognoser är ett hett forskningsområde, där tillförlitligheten ökar med de vetenskapliga landvinningarna. Säsongsprognoser för Europa är dock ännu ett avlägset mål.
- Six new PhD students at MISU 2017-11-03 They come from all over the world, with backgrounds varying from organic chemistry to computational physics.
- International students: welcome to apply for autumn 2018! 2017-10-17 Application is now open for the master programme at MISU starting in autumn 2018. Last date to apply is January 15th 2018.
- MATS satellite project status: prototype testing 2017-09-25 Late September, 30 researchers from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the US, Canada and Japan met at MISU to discuss how MATS data best can be used to answer unsolved scientific questions about the mesosphere.
- New lecture rooms at MISU 2017-09-19 World famous meteorologists Bjerknes and Bolin give name to two new lecture and meeting rooms at MISU.
- World leading cloud microphysicist visits MISU 2017-09-15 Three questions to Ulrike Lohmann, guest professor at MISU, the Department of Meteorology, during autumn 2017.
- Malva Lindborg – bridge between students and faculty 2017-08-01 Three questions to Malva Lindborg, new study adviser and student administrator at MISU.
- Stronger West African Monsoon during Green Sahara may have affected ENSO 2017-07-11 Accounting for a vegetated and less dusty Sahara reduces the variability of El Niño during the Mid-Holocene to closer to that which is observed in several paleoclimate records. This is shown by researchers at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University in a recent study, published in Nature Communications.
- What does a “docent” do? 2017-06-27 Not fully a professor but more than a doctor. Frida Bender, researcher at the Department of Meteorology, and recently appointed docent explains what’s hidden behind the title.
- Magnus Hieronymus, new postdoc at MISU 2017-06-27 Former MISU PhD student returns as a postdoc working on ocean heat uptake and transport.
- Dipanjan Dey, new PhD student at MISU 2017-06-27 The PhD focus will be on tracking pathways of water masses to find the drivers of large scale ocean-atmosphere system and how the Atlantic exports freshwater to the Pacific.
- Sahara greening intensify tropical cyclone activity worldwide 2017-06-27 In a recent study, researchers at the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University have found that tropical cyclone activity may have increased during past warm climates with a greening of the Sahara.
- Green Sahara interviews on Vetenskapsradion and BBC 2017-04-11 Researcher Francesco S.R. Pausata have been interviewed by Swedish Radio and BBC because of a recently published paper on Green Sahara. Listen to the interviews (Swedish & Spanish), read the press release (Swedish) and of course the scientific paper in Science.
- Stort EU-anslag för att studera arktiska kopplingar till väder och klimat 2016-11-22 Bättre väder- och klimatprognoser inte bara i Arktis utan även i Europa, Asien och Nordamerika är målet för ett nytt tvärvetenskapligt projekt som får 8 miljoner euro från EU:s forsknings- och innovationsprogram Horisont 2020.
- New research grants from The Swedish Research Council (VR) 2016-11-08 The Research Council has taken a decision on research grants in science and engineering. This was publish on November 2, 2016. MISU received one etablishment grant and two project grants. Congratulations to Gabriele Messori, Caroline Leck and Michael Tjernström.
- New major research grant by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Fundation 2016-10-11 The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted a total of SEK 131 million to research projects at Stockholm University. One of the project is "Arctic Climate across Scales" with professor M. Tjernström at MISU. The projects were considered to be of the highest international level and have the potential to lead to future scientific breakthroughs.
- Inauguration of R/V Electra af Askö 2016-10-10 On October 5, representatives from the Department of Meteorology participated in the Inauguration of Stockholm University new research vessel, nicely organized by the Baltic Sea Centre. Jonas Nycander, head of the Department, gave a short presentation on how we can use the vessel for more oceanographic research in collaboration with other departments.
- Welcome back Gabriele! 2016-09-16 Gabriele is funded by a MISU fellowship, and his research focusses on high-impact extreme weather events in the mid-latitudes. The aim of his work is to improve the understanding of the large-scale drivers of these events, and hence their predictability.
- Jón Egill Kristjánsson 2016-08-19 We are sorry to announce that Professor Jón Egill Kristjánsson, University of Oslo, has passed away in an accident in the Norwegian mountains. Jón Egill was a highly active, competent and internationally respected climate scientist and a very good friend of us at MISU.
- Thin tropical clouds cool the climate 2016-08-17 Thin clouds at about 5 km altitude are more ubiquitous in the tropics than previously thought and they have a substantial cooling effect on climate. This is shown in a recent study by researchers from Stockholm University and the University of Miami published in Nature Communications. The cooling effect of mid-level clouds is currently missing in global climate models.
- Welcome Piotr 2016-07-07 Dr. Piotr Kupiszewski is a new employee at MISU and will take part in Arctic Ocean 2016 expedition on an Early Career Scientist grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.
- New employees 2016-06-14 Lars Ahlm and Joy Monteiro
- Arctic Ocean 2016 2016-11-24 The Swedish icebreaker Oden is going on a research mission to the Arctic again and during the week 23-26 some MISU people, and some others, spent climbing around on Oden in Helsingborg harbor to set up instruments and take part in a one day science workshop and - for those that actually goes on the expedition - to brush up on board safety.
- Varmaste på 136 år 2016-04-19 Idag, tisdagen den 19 april, var våra doktorander Eva Nygren och Lina Broman tillbaka i TV-rutan på Aftonbladet och förklarade vårt varma väder, kommenterade klimatet och funderade på sommarvädret.
- New PhD Student 2016-04-05 Sara Berglund started as a PhD student for Kristofer Döös and Jonas Nycander in April 2016. Sara has done both her Bachelor and Master at MISU. The first focus during her PhD will be on the Lagrangian thermohaline stream function and Lagrangian trajectories.
- Renare luft i Europa avslöjar ett varmare Arktis 2016-03-14 En kraftig minskning av mängden förorenande partiklar i luften över Europa kan delvis förklara den snabba uppvärmningen av Arktis som observerats sedan 1980-talet. Detta visar en ny studie publicerad i Nature Geoscience. Forskare från Stockholms universitet och det norska meteorologiska institutet har kommit fram till att utsläppen av växthusgaser snabbt måste minskas för att dämpa klimatförändringen i Arktis.
- Below sea level 2016-03-01 In New Orleans, just some 10 days after Mardi Gras, we were met by warm, humid evenings and colourful left-over beads hanging from every tree, fence and lamp post.
- New employee 2016 2016-04-06 Liam Brannigan is a new Postdoc here at MISU. He will be here for 2 years. Liam is working with Jonas Nycander and Johan Nilsson on eddying flows in the Arctic Ocean.
- Oceanografens reseberättelse 2016-02-19 Föreställd dig en världskarta där Grönland som vanligt är oproportionerligt stort och Afrika ser ut som ett större land, men egentligen är en stor kontinent. Ungefär mitt emellan Sydafrika och Australien sätter du en punkt och fortsätter sedan söderut tills du når 50S. Där. Där ligger Kerguelen Islands, en liten obebodd ö-grupp som tillhör Frankrike. Här får man bara vistas i forskning eller militäriskt syfte. Det gjorde docent Fabien Roquet, oceanograf vid Meteorologiska Institutionen.
- Learning how to Tackle Climate Change in Five Easy Lessons 2016-02-05 A summary of Climate Change Education within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by Harriet Thew (1) and Cecilia Wesslén (2)
- Being isolated in Northern Sweden 2016-04-06 Swedish Lapland, Kiruna - It is 04h30 in the morning and lidar observations are ongoing. Outside temperature is 29°C in the negative. The sky is clear and a massive aurora display is fading. The darkness returns. Within the Arctic circle, winter reigns!
- Radio Elan 2016-04-21 Late in November, just before the UN climate change conference was about to begin in Paris, some of our French speaking scientists got the oppurtunity to answer questions about the climate and environment from a 10-year old student at the Frech Shoool St Louis.
- 2016 EGU Award for Young Scientists 2016-04-21 Joseph A. Sedlar, postdoc at MISU, will receive the 2016 Outstanding Young Scientists Award in the Atmospheric Sciences Division. He will receive his prize at the EGU 2016 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 17–22 April.
- Volvo Environment Prize 2015 2016-04-21 Henning Rodhe, Professor of Chemical Meteorology at MISU, receives the Volvo Environment Prize 2015 for his contributions to the understanding of the world’s atmosphere. His pioneering work explains how gases and particles are transported and deposited and how they affect climate, ecosystems and human health.
- The atmospheric contribution to Arctic sea-ice variability 2015-10-29 Today, on October 16, Marie-Luise Kapsch will defend her thesis "The atmospheric contribution to Arctic sea-ice variability" in Nordenskiöldsalen. More information about the research can be found here (in Swedish) and in the papers below (English).
- Comments on the proposed emission targets ahead of COP21 2016-04-21 On Monday October 12, our professor Michael Tjernström gave his view on national radio (Studio Ett) on the recently published emission reduction commitments from individual countries (“intended nationally determined contribution” or INDCs) in preparation for COP21, the UN climate change conference, which takes place in Paris later this year.
- Intervju med Johan Nilsson i P4 Extra 2015-10-29 Professor i oceanografi, Johan Nilsson, förklarar varför temperaturen i Norra Atlanten har sjunkit de senaste 30-40 åren, medan temperaturen i övriga klimatsystemet ökar.
- Vice-Chancellor visiting MISU 2015-10-29 On Tuesday September 15, vice-chancellor Astrid Söderbergh Widding paid a visit to the Department of Meteorology.
- Seminar with Honorary Doctor Raymond Pierrehumbert 2015-10-29 MISU has had a honorary doctor three years in a row now! This year it is Halley Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert from Oxford University. The doctors are conferred at the University’s installation and conferment ceremony on 25 September 2015. The same day Professor Pierrehumbert will give a seminar at MISU.
- Ett regionalt kärnvapenkrig kan få stora globala konsekvenser på vädret 2015-09-11 I Almedalen i somras presenterade MISUs forskare Gunilla Svensson sin senaste forskning om vad som händer med partiklarna i atmosfären vid ett eventuellt regionalt kärnvapenkrig. Forskningen är ett samarbete med Sveriges Läkare mot Kärnvapen (SLMK).
- How much drought can a tree take? 2015-06-05 One of our guest researcher Chuixiang "Tree" Yi was recently interviewed by The Environmental Research Web about his latest research. Together with colleagues from the US, Chuixiang "Tree" Yi has looked at tree-ring data and climate records to investigate how much drought todays trees can take, before reaching a tipping point.
- Air and Water - A Two Professors Seminar 2015-04-20 Announcement for the “Two Professors Science Forum” at the Bolin Center, on Wednesday 22 April, at 14-16.00. The two Professors will give back-to-back lectures on some of their research for the year, followed by an open discussion over fika.
- The Swedish National Space Board visits MISU for a meeting on 5 March 2015-03-05 The Swedish National Space Board, (Rymdstyrelsen), is responsible for national and international activities relating to space and remote sensing, primarily research and development. In 2014 they decided to fund the MISU satellite project MATS.
- Jonas Nycander debates Swedish research and higher education policy on "DN-debatt" 2015-03-02 He argues that the level of knowledge among students is deteriorating: "A university reform is needed to stop the downward spiral".
- The Swedish agricultural policy leads to increased emissions 2014-12-12 Caroline Leck debates the state support for the agricultural sector on "DN-debatt". It contributes to increased emissions instead of sustainability.
- Annica Ekman is new EGU division president for Atmospheric Sciences 2014-12-03 Annica Ekman has been appointed EGU Division President 2015-2017 for Atmospheric Sciences. The European Geophysical Union (EGU), scientific activities are organised through scientific divisions encompassing all studies of the Earth and its environment and of the solar system in general.
- New research grants to Rodrigo Caballero and Gunilla Svensson 2014-11-17 Swedish Research Council supports Rodrigo Caballero with 3.4 million for the project “The role of atmospheric moist intrusions in Arctic climate”, and Gunilla Svensson with 3.2 million SEK for the project “The role of surface friction for midlatitude storm climate”, within their general call for Natural and Engineering Sciences 2014. Congratulations!
- Jonas Nycander presents a new policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on "DN-debatt" 2014-11-05 Seventeen years after the Kyoto Protocol was signed the emissions of greenhouse gases are greater than ever before. A new policy is needed: An international agreement about a taxation on fossil fuels. This would raise the cost of the emissions and at the same time raise fiscal revenues.
- PhD defense: Per Pemberton 2014-11-05 Per Pemberton defends the thesis “Freshwater processes and water mass transformation in the Arctic Ocean”, on Wednesday 5 November, at 10.00, in DeGeersalen, Geovetenskapes hus. Welcome!
- The Swedish National Space Board (Rymdstyrelsen) has decided to fund the MATS satellite 2014-10-24 This is fantastic news for us at MISU and for our partners at Chalmers, at KTH and in Swedish space industry. 15 years after the launch of Odin, MISU now has the scientific responsibility for the next Swedish research satellite. The acronym MATS stands for Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy. If all work goes as planned, MATS will be launched towards the end of 2017.
- Stockholm University Honorary Doctor 2014 2014-09-22 MISU had the privilege to host one of Stockholm University Honorary Doctors 2014. Thomas Rossby, professor at Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA, is a famous oceanographer who have been collaborating with people from MISU for many years.
- SWERUS-C3 - first leg is coming to an end 2014-08-18 We just started the engines for the last transit down to Barrow, and so the first leg of this expedition is coming to an end. The last several days we have more or less parked ourselves in the ice north of Barrow. The majority of the research programs on board has been winding down and no more sampling was done. Our meteorology program have however continued as usual; we even managed to perform two transects across the ice edg. We also had an interested mesoscale cyclone pass right over us few days ago.
- SWERUS-C3 work around the clock 2014-08-12 Oden 2014-08-09. After spending over a week under a constant fog, we have experienced binary weather the last few days . either fog or spectacularly clear. The temperature goes up and down between -2C, and ice sticking on everything when it is foggy, or +2C; Not very much variation it may seem, but I can assure you it feels very different.
- SWERUS-C3 – challenging weather conditions 2014-08-12 Oden 2014-08-03 New month; new report! Ever since we left Bennett Island behind us on the 29th we have been moving in a very stubborn fog...
- SWERUS-C3 going into the ice again 2014-07-31 We have now passed from open water into the ice again. Yesterday and today we have circled Bennett Island (Picture 1), the first land we have seen since we left the Norwegian coast. Just as a perfect timing, yesterday also was a beautifully sunny day (Picture 2); sunshine, dark ocean, azure blue melt ponds and glittering white snow. It can't get much better! Today, however, the weather closed in again and we are now fumbling along in really tough ice with fog with zero visibility and no real good idea how to get ourselves in the right direction. We still have plenty of time for the remaining work, so it not very urgent; just a bit frustrating.
- SWERUS-C3 has passed its midpoint 2014-07-31 Now SWERUS has passed its midpoint; at least we had a midpoint dinner a few days ago. Very nice food, good company and high spirits! In general we eat very well on board, if maybe a bit too much. For a little over a week now, we have been in open water, but now we are heading east towards the ice edge again. There's a little island - Bennet Island - that we are supposed to round and it looks like it is right in the "marginal ice zone" right now.
- Latest update from the Arctic Cloud Summer Experiment (ACSE) 2014-07-18 We have now rounded Severnaya Zemlya and entered the Laptev Sea; right now we are "balancing" on the outer edge of the shelf. The route from the Kara Sea to here took us through some pretty sturdy ice and so we lost some time, which we are now trying to catch up on.
- Mobilisation onto Oden 2014-06-11 Many scientists from Stockholm University have spent several weeks packing all the instruments and equipment that will be needed for the expedition to the Arctic this summer. Last week, the mobilisation started and the equipment was taken onboard Oden in Helsingborg.
- Studentblogg i Oslo 2014-06-03 En av våra tidigare studenter har, tillsammans med två studenter från Norge, startar en blogg om livet som meteorlogistudent på Oslo Universitet. De skriver på en blandning av norska och svenska, och livet är ofta ganska likt livet på MISU.
- The weather has changed 2014-04-23 Around our world, many feel that the weather is changing, in different ways. The question is: Is is something that we just think we experience or is the change actually happening, is it real? A new research study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago now support the idea that something is not quite as it was before. One of our scientists, Professor Michael Tjernström, made a comment about this on Swedish Television (SVT) this morning.
- Intervju i SR: Nytt hot mot ozonlagret 2014-04-14 Det var en framgångssaga för klokt samarbete mellan forskare, politiker och industri när Montrealprotokollet förbjöd användning av klor- och brominnehållande freoner. Avtalet fanns på plats bara ett år efter att man hade förstått hur de angrep ozonet. Nu dyker nya kemikalier upp, kusiner till freoner, som man inte vet var de kommer ifrån, och som är lika aggressiva som de som förbjöds. Caroline Leck är professor i kemisk meteorologi på MISU. Hon kan ozonlagrets historia på sina fem fingrar och är idag oroad. Programledare: Per Gustafsson.
- Our expert comments on the search for the Malaysian airplane 2014-03-28 Due to the recent investigations around the Indian Ocean, our professor, Johan Nilsson, was interviewed by SVT and explained some of the challenges that the Australian search operation might face.
- Teacher's Day focusing on pedagogics 2014-03-14 Previously, the theme for the Teacher's Day has usually being related to our course program and its content. But 2014, the focus of MISU Teacher's Day was University Pedagogics and the day became a success.
- Ocean Science Meeting 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii 2014-03-04 In February 2014, 7 researchers from MISU went all the way to Honolulu, Hawaii for the 17th biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) to discuss oceanography and new research on the global ocean and society, including science education, outreach and public policy.
- Lyckat studiebesök med Tullinge Gymnasium 2014-02-07 Torsdagen den 30 Januari var 18 elever från Tullinge Gymnasium på studiebesök på MISU. Dagen, som bland annat innehöll prat om väderprognoser, experiment i oceanografi och meteorlogi samt demonstration av en klimatmodell, var mycket uppskattad av både anställda på institutionen och studenterna på besök.
- MISU scientists investigate gravity waves in the atmosphere over northern Sweden 2013-12-04 As part of an international collaboration called GW-LCYCLE, scientists from MISU are currently performing light detection and ranging (lidar) measurements at Esrange, northern Sweden. The lidar observations complement experiments that are conducted aboard the German research aircraft FALCON. The comprehensive measurement campaign focuses on the excitation and propagation of gravity waves in the atmosphere. Northern Sweden provides excellent opportunities for such studies as the Scandinavian mountains are a prominent source of mountain waves, a particular class of gravity waves.
- King Carl XVI Gustaf's professorship in Environmental Science 2013-12-02 Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert have been appointed one of the two holders of The professorship 2014/15 in Environmental Science by His Majesty, The King of Sweden. The professorship will be hosted by the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University.
- One of MISU’s PhD students joins international research cruise to the Arctic 2013-08-23 The International Arctic Research Center (IARC) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, US, selected one of MISU’s PhD students to participate in their summer school on “Climate Change in the Arctic Ocean” which is conducted jointly with an arctic expedition aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Federov
- Saharan dust detected over Stockholm during Midsommar 2013-06-28 Mineral dust from northern Africa was transported all the way to Sweden and caused the blurry white sky that we could observe over Stockholm during Midsommar. In contrast to the small air molecules whose interference with sunlight causes the sky to be blue, mineral dust particles are much larger and scatter light equally efficient at all visible wavelength. This causes the sky to turn white during such events – despite a lack of clouds.
- This summer’s first displays of noctilucent clouds have now been photographed by MISU’s cameras 2013-06-12 Since the summer of 2004 we run an automatic camera on the top floor of Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm. The camera takes pictures of noctilucent clouds, (NLC), the highest known clouds existing in the atmosphere.
- This summer’s first displays of noctilucent clouds have now been photographed by MISU’s camera 2013-06-11 Since the summer of 2004 we run an automatic camera on the top floor of Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm. The camera takes pictures of noctilucent clouds, (NLC), the highest known clouds existing in the atmosphere.
- Arctic summer sea ice extent controlled by atmospheric transport 2013-05-06 The retreat of the summer sea ice in the Arctic region is one of the most dramatic signs of the ongoing climate change. Although the ice cover is steadily decreasing it also shows a large variability from year to year. In a new study, published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, researches at Stockholm University have examined the variability of the Arctic sea ice. They concluded that warm and humid winds from southerly latitudes towards the Arctic in spring are important for the amount of sea ice later in the summer.
- Professor of Meteorology awarded honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Science 2013-04-22 Professor Jón Egill Kristjánsson has, on a proposal from the Department of Meteorology, been awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Science in 2013.
- Elephant seals helped scientists to resolve a 30-year mystery about Antarctic bottom water formation 2013-04-09 Scientists, with the help of elephant seals, have solved a 30-year mystery surrounding the formation of the Antarctic bottom water, a dense cold water filling in most of the ocean deep basins. The formation and circulation of Antarctic bottom water is a key process of the global ocean circulation and therefore of the earth’s climate.