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Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the IPCC’s high-end climate warming scenario, according to the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) Team.

Bas van de Wiel (Professor Atmospheric Physics) wants to minimise the fruit crop losses due to frost. Yet surprisingly little is known about this phenomenon. Therefore Van de Wiel received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to together with colleague Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis provide clarity on fruit frost.

Herman Russchenberg was interviewed in various media about climate change.

Pieternel Levelt was interviewed in various media about methane pollution detection.

Harry Zekollari was interviewed in various media about producing electricity out of melting glaciers.

Pier Siebesma was interviewed in Klokhuis about clouds.

Pieternel Levelt was interviewed in AD about Tropomi.

Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). The report cited 34 papers co-authored by GRS researchers.

Our Elyta Widyaningrum won the best paper award, the Shunji Murai award, in ACRS (Asian Conference on Remote Sensing) 2019 in Daejeon, South Korea.

The smartphone application GADIP3, developed by the team "O ThiSaVRoS" including our Dimitrios Psychas, won the the 1st prize award in the ESA Galileo App Competition 2018/19, organized and run by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the European GNSS Agency and the European Commission with the support of Google.