Air, water and landscape sciences
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We are a large research program that integrate research in environmental analysis, hydrology, meteorology and physical geography. We study air, water and landscape processes, as well as human impacts, to address grand societal challenges related to water resources, sustainability, energy, natural hazards and climate.
Meteorology
Meteorology is the study and understanding of weather. In order to predict future weather, we need to know what the weather is like here and now, and by learning more about the weather we can prepare for different types of weather conditions.

Hydrology and environmental analysis
We do research on water and its movement in nature. Our research allows us to better manage water resources, plan for floods and droughts, and protect water quality for animals and humans.
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Physical geography
Physical Geography focuses on the features of planet Earth and the processes that shape the Earth's land surface. We study landforms, the Earth's environment and global changes through time. We conduct research in glaciology, climate and environmental developments that are linked to the changes occurring over the Earth's surface.

Take a look at our unique weather measurements
Uppsala has some of the oldest weather statistics in the world. Anders Celsius helped start Uppsala University's weather measurements in 1722, and every day for over 300 years, weather statistics have continued to be collected. Today, weather measurements are carried out at a digital measuring station located at the Geocenter in Uppsala.
Follow our weather statistics for Uppsala here.
Read more about Anders Celcius.
Uppsala is now defined as a warm-temperate climate.
PhD Studies
According to international evaluations, Uppsala University has some of the most comprehensive research in geosciences in Europe, and our doctoral students at Uppsala University are among the most satisfied with their doctoral education. We offer doctoral studies in eight research areas.
Our research projects
- Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe: from dynamics to predictability ("CENÆ")
- DRONES
- EduSustRec4Ukraine
- EDIPI - European weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts
- EU project I-CISK
- EU project TRANSCEND
- Global glacier thickness and volume estimation
- Highly effective functional wood-based hybrid materials for water treatment
- ISOSCAN
- Leap in Swedish freshwater monitoring for water supply risk mitigation
- Lignin-based hydrogels for PFAS removal
- Losing their cool: are high-elevation heat exchanges warming Himalayan glaciers?
- Microbial degradation of PFAS for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater (bioPFAS)
- Modelling subsurface PFAS transport with focus on in-situ stabilization with sorbents
- New materials for in-situ mitigation of persistent contaminants in soil, groundwater and sediments
- New phosphonic acid derivatives for uranium and rare earth metals separation
- Nobel symposium: Chemistry for Sustainability: Fundamental Advances
- Optimization of shipping routes: Evaluation of increased shipping carbon emissions due to the development of offshore wind farms and its impact on shipping routes
- Practical modelling of PFAS transport and fate from source zone to recipient
- Remote sensing of mining impacts in the Arctic
- SULFREM
- Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes (climes)
- “When it rains it pours”: Biogeophysical drivers and societal responses to compound natural hazard events in Sweden
Publications
The Impact of Acid Strength and Mineral Composition on Spontaneous Imbibition with Reactive Fluids
Part of Transport in Porous Media, 2025
- DOI for The Impact of Acid Strength and Mineral Composition on Spontaneous Imbibition with Reactive Fluids
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2025
Elastic wave propagation and attenuation across cemented rock fractures under tension
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2025
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Comparison of performance assessment models and methods in crystalline rock: Task F1 DECOVALEX-2023
Part of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2025
Understanding Wintertime Pan-Atlantic Compound Weather Extremes: Statistical and Dynamical Insights
2025
Observation of the atmospheric boundary layer over the Atlantic and its effects for wind propulsion
Part of Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 2025
Part of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2025
Part of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2025
- DOI for Discrete fracture network model benchmarks developed and applied in a DECOVALEX-2023 repository performance assessment study
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All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa
Part of Environment and Planning E, p. 100-127, 2025
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Integrating “nature” in the water-energy-food Nexus: Current perspectives and future directions
Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2025
Part of Science of the Total Environment, 2025
- DOI for Towards a common understanding of water-energy-food nexus research: A view of the European nexus community and beyond
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2025
- DOI for Evidence of Stress Control on Dissolution Cavity Growth Along Heterogeneous Field‐Scale Fractures From Coupled Hydro‐Mechanical‐Chemical Modeling
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Part of Meteorological Applications, 2025
- DOI for Evaluation of 3D-Var and 4D-Var data assimilation on simulation of heavy rainfall events over the Indian region
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Part of Environmental Pollution, 2025
- DOI for Tyre wear particles and metals in highway roadside ditches: Occurrence and potential transport pathways
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Future changes in precipitation distributions over Africa
Part of Aerosols and Precipitation over Africa Progress, p. 169-204, Elsevier, 2025
Part of Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2025
- DOI for Recommendations to improve the interpretation of global flood forecasts to support international humanitarian operations for tropical cyclones
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Influence of mesoscale sea surface temperature anomaly on polar lows
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
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Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2025
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 2025
- DOI for The More the Merrier: Multi‐Frequency Magnetic Susceptibility of Loess and Palaeosols as a Sensitive Climate Proxy
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Part of Environmental Pollution, 2025
- DOI for Modelling PFAS transport in Lake Ekoln: Implications for drinking water safety in the stockholm region
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Part of Reactive & functional polymers, 2025
- DOI for Lignin-enriched cellulose membranes for efficient removal of synthetic dyes from aqueous environments
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Resilience of offshore renewable energy systems to extreme metocean conditions: A review
Part of Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 2025
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Mitigating Urban Microplastic Pollution: Investigating Nature-Based Filters in Stormwater Management
2025
Numerical simulation and optimization design of complex underground fracture network
Part of Advances in Geo-Energy Research, p. 1-3, 2025
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Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025
- DOI for Assessment of rare earth element-doped anatase-brookite composition for photocatalytic hydrogen production and Rhodamine B photodegradation
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The predictability of European temperature extremes and their health impacts under global change
2025
Understanding the interactions between polar lows and the ocean
2025
Plant and soil characteristics as key predictors for future agricultural drought
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
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Part of Ambio, p. 198-210, 2025
- DOI for The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history
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Part of Journal of Water and Health, p. 507-528, 2025
- DOI for Changing climate and socio-economic conditions as part of quantitative microbial risk assessment of surface drinking water sources: a review
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Part of Environment and Planning E, p. 3-12, 2025
- DOI for Pluralising the materiality of water: More-than-water, lively waters, water with, and the agency of hydro-social assemblages
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Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Modelling rockbursts around a deep tunnel based on the particle finite element method: From progressive degradation to catastrophic ejection
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Tomographic and volcanotectonic control on the 2021-2023 Fagradalsfjall eruptions, Iceland
Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2025
- DOI for Extreme gradient and boosting algorithm for improved bias-correction and downscaling of CMIP6 GCM data across indian river basin
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Validation and diagnostic study of cloudburst events over the Himalayan region using IMDAA and ERA5
Part of Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 2025
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Dynamics of stratospheric wave reflection over the North Pacific
Part of Weather and Climate Dynamics, p. 521-548, 2025
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Oscillatory finite-time singularities in rockbursts
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2025
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Unified failure model for landslides, rockbursts, glaciers, and volcanoes
Part of Communications Earth & Environment, 2025
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Part of Earth-Science Reviews, 2025
- DOI for A review of storms and marine coastal flooding in the Baltic Sea: Insights from instrumental, historical and sedimentary record
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Explaining Pan‐Atlantic Cold and Windy Extremes Using an Analog‐Based Approach
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2025
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Enhancing Research-to-Operations in Hydrological Forecasting: Innovations across Scales and Horizons
Part of Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS), 2025
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Part of Water Research, 2025
- DOI for Modelling the combined impacts of climate change and socio-economic development on waterborne pathogen transport
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Disentangling density and geometry in weather regime dimensions using stochastic twins
Part of npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2025
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Part of npj Materials Degradation, 2025
- DOI for Microbial dissolution of Gran Canaria lapilli in small-scale flow through columns: carbon dioxide removal potential
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Part of Advances in Water Resources, 2025
- DOI for Characteristics of flow and transport in low-permeability fractured rock based on a channel network model
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Part of Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2025
Part of Geoforum, 2025
- DOI for Rethinking the nature of justice: A hydrosocial territories perspective on a contested low-carbon transition
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2025
- DOI for Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Uppsala University Hospital 2009-2023: outcomes and temporal trends
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Part of Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2025
- DOI for Reactive solute transport simulation of multicomponent cation exchange and diffusion processes in column experiments with clay-rich rock
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Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1513-1525, 2025
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