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Dear reader,
The day I write this is another warm autumn day in November 2022. The COP27 climate summit is about to start in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. As so many, I am not overly optimistic about the chances of success. In the current geopolitical situation, confrontation and mistrust minimize the ground for common action against the evolving climate crisis.
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Prestigious Balzan Prize for Hans Oerlemans
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Professor Hans Oerlemans has been emeritus for three years now, but his work continues to be honored. On 12 September, it was announced that he and his Danish colleague Dorthe Dahl-Jensen are joint winners of one of the 2022 Balzan Prizes.
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New high-end estimate of sea-level rise projections for 2100 and 2300
An international group of 28 sea-level scientists and practitioners of the World Climate Research Programme’s Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts has released a new estimate for high-end sea-level rise. High-end sea-level rise projections represent what might happen rather than representing the most likely outcome.
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Check out the CloudRoots campaign in Brazil this summer
As part of the CloudRoots project, Dutch research groups carried out a large scientific campaign in Brazil in July-August 2022. They went to the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), a scientific research station with as central structure a 320 high tower for atmospheric observations. IMAU technician David Bonell Fontas joined the expedition and produced a movie about the exciting research that was carried out there.
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The 5th ICOS Science Conference: "Tracking progress to carbon neutrality”
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The conference program showcased the latest research on greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on regional and global climate, based on ICOS measurement and modeling infrastructure. A special side event was the world premiere of “Temperature Music”, a composition for chamber orchestra by a Dutch composer to raise awareness of the climate crisis and encourage climate action.
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EMS Outreach and Communication Award 2022 for the podcast De Weerman
The award is presented to projects that explore new ways to communicate the science of meteorology, climatology and related fields and its consequences to the general public. In the podcast, weatherman and polar researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke talks, together with presenter Fleur Wallenburg, about everything that has to do with weather and climate.
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A remarkable citation for IMAU's Leo Maas
A few weeks ago, a remarkable paper was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. What made this paper remarkable? First, it is written by Carl Wunsch and Jared Wunsch, where the first author belongs to the absolute top of physical oceanographers world-wide, and Jared is his son. Second, the title explicitly contains the name of a colleague researcher, something that is rather unconventional.
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Tons of nanoplastic are floating in the Wadden Sea
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About 20 tons of polystyrene and another 5 tons of PET is floating in the Wadden Sea, in the form of invisible nano and micro particles. That's the figure IMAU and NIOZ researchers calculated in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
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Can the Miocene climate inform the future?
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In the scientific journal Science, IMAU researcher Anna von der Heydt reflects on a new publication in the same journal. The new study provides a consistent explanation for the long-term evolution of global temperature and ice sheets on Earth, giving a glimpse into the future of Earth’s climate.
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Nanoplastic omnipresent in rural and remote surface waters
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Tiny pieces of plastic have found their way via air to remote places on Earth in recent decades. This is the conclusion of researchers from Utrecht University and others in a publication in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters.
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Climate Physics student excursion 2022
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From 30 August to 8 September 2022, 29 Climate Physics students went on a study excursion to France, under guidance of Willem Jan van de Berg. The first stop was Grenoble, where the group visited a snow research field site (without snow) of the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRS).
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We are very interested in the careers of our former Climate Physics Master students. In this edition Sjoerd Groeskamp tells us about the choices he has made.
"I believe that new ways to communicate the consequences of climate change will convince more people to join the fight against climate change."
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IMAU scientists in the media
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Climate tipping points, record ice melt in Greenland and plastic waste found all over the globe.
Check the overview of media appearances from our scientists. Most articles are in Dutch, but quite a few are in English.
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