Air, water and landscape sciences
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We integrate research in environmental analysis, hydrology, meteorology and physical geography to address grand societal challenges related to climate, energy, natural hazards, sustainability and water resources.
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.
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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
Ongoing projects:
- CAUCUS: Early Human Dispersal into Eurasia via the Southern Caucasus?
- DYnamical Drivers, Predictability and Trends of Compound CLimate EXtremes (DYCLEX)
- Estimating Greenland's Present and Future Ice Thickness Using Inverse Modeling and High-Resolution Satellite Data
- Fracture Network Prediction and Rock Suitability Evaluation for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal
- Momentum Flux Conservation Across the Air-Sea-Ice Interface Within the Marginal Ice Zone in Earth System Models
- Progressive Evolution of Structurally-Controlled Overbreaks: Long-Term Monitoring, Hydromechanical Simulation and Rock Testing
- TerraDT: Digital Twin of Earth System for Cryosphere, Land Surface and Related Interactions
- The Edge of the Monsoon: Understanding Environmental Change at the Semi-Arid and Semi-Humid Transition in China Over the Past 130 ka
- Turbulence Fluxes Across the Air-Sea-Ice Interface in the Marginal Ice Zone and Their Influence on Polar Cyclones
- Unravelling the Interplay of Temperature Fluctuation and Water Leakage in Frost Damage of Shotcrete-Lined Rock Tunnels Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles
- CLIMES DN - A Doctoral Network for Understanding and Predicting Impacts of Climate Extremes under Global Change
- A Process-Based Forecast Tool for Tunnelling-Induced Groundwater Drainage and Land Subsidence
- EU project TRANSCEND
- ISOSCAN
- Leap in Swedish freshwater monitoring for water supply risk mitigation
- Losing their cool: are high-elevation heat exchanges warming Himalayan glaciers?
- 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
- Practical modelling of PFAS transport and fate from source zone to recipient
- Remote sensing of mining impacts in the Arctic
- Climes - Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes
Finalized projects:
- Modelling of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Rock in Performance Assessment
- Modelling subsurface PFAS transport with focus on in-situ stabilization with sorbents
- EDIPI - European weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts
- Compound Climate Extremes in North America and Europe: from dynamics to predictability ("CENÆ")
- DRONES
- “When it rains it pours”: Biogeophysical drivers and societal responses to compound natural hazard events in Sweden
- Global glacier thickness and volume estimation
- Highly effective functional wood-based hybrid materials for water treatment
- Microbial degradation of PFAS for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater (bioPFAS)
- EduSustRec4Ukraine
- Lignin-based hydrogels for PFAS removal
- EU project I-CISK: Innovating Climate Services through Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge
- SULFREM
- Nobel symposium: Chemistry for Sustainability: Fundamental Advances
- ArcDune: Sand Dunes and Holocene Environmental Change in the European Arctic
- Optimization of shipping routes: Evaluation of increased shipping carbon emissions due to the development of offshore wind farms and its impact on shipping routes
Publications
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Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2026
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Systems thinking: phenomena and archetypes
Part of Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human-Water Systems, p. 75-96, Elsevier, 2026
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Revealing Glacier Bed Topography from Regional to Global Scales
2026
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Part of Catena (Cremlingen. Print), 2026
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 2026
- DOI for Emergence of Diverse Failure Patterns in Weathering‐Induced Landslides: Insights From Particle Finite Element Simulations
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Part of Progress in Disaster Science, 2026
- DOI for The citation gap: An overview of academic output in the field of natural hazards and climate extremes analyzed through Google Scholar data
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Part of Journal of Environmental Management, 2026
- DOI for Dynamic mode decomposition for water-energy-food nexus modelling: Data-driven predictions of policy impacts
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Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2026
- DOI for Deep learning based multi-temporal scale precipitation modeling for spring discharge prediction, Shentou springs, China
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Flow, Transport and Deformation in 3D Fractured Media: Sensitivity to Model Conceptualization
2026
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 47-65, 2026
- DOI for The coupling between hydrology, the development of the active layer and the chemical signature of surface water in a periglacial catchment in West Greenland
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Numerical Weather Prediction model coupling-strategies, challenges, and outlook
Part of Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS), 2026
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Part of Desalination, 2026
- DOI for Clean enough?: Acceptance of urine-derived dry fertilizer and water shaped by religious and social norms in a water-scarce Islamic context
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Effects of secondary fractures on fault seismic rupture and aseismic slip during CO2 sequestration
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2026
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Part of Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2026
- DOI for A Subgrid-Scale Parameterization of Wave-Structure Interactions for Spectral Wave Models: Idealized Simulations in Offshore Wind Farm Conditions
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Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, 2026
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Policy pathways for clean energy and climate mitigation: insights from long-term scenario modelling
Part of Energy Conversion and Management, 2026
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Exploring future production scenarios for Italian offshore wind power
Part of Wind Energy Science, p. 723-735, 2026
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Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its peripheral glaciers: 1992–2023
Part of Earth System Science Data, p. 1729-1745, 2026
- DOI for Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its peripheral glaciers: 1992–2023
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Opportunities for improved detection of linked hydroclimate-ecosystem dynamics in Arctic catchments
Part of Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2026
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Topographic effects of Svalbard on warm and moist air intrusions into the Central Arctic
Part of Weather and Climate Dynamics, p. 341-365, 2026
- DOI for Topographic effects of Svalbard on warm and moist air intrusions into the Central Arctic
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Part of Hydrological Sciences Journal, p. 229-245, 2026
- DOI for Uncertainty propagation from gridded precipitation datasets to streamflow simulations: application to the Reno River basin (Italy)
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Part of Science Advances, 2026
- DOI for Atmospheric systems drive spatiotemporal divergence of dust and moisture changes across Asia over the past 130,000 years
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On the β-effect in the baroclinic instability of a continuously stratified atmosphere
Part of Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2026
- DOI for On the β-effect in the baroclinic instability of a continuously stratified atmosphere
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Date palm waste biochar for the adsorptive removal of pharmaceuticals: a review
Part of Environmental Sciences Europe, 2026
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2026
- DOI for Compound North American Cold and European Wind Extremes in ERA5 and CMIP6 Historical and Future Simulations. Part 2: Dynamical Pathways
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2026
- DOI for Compound North American Cold and European Wind Extremes in ERA5 and CMIP6 Historical and Future Simulations: Part 1: Surface Extremes
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Stable dust-transporting winds in Central Asia over the last 1.2 million years
Part of Quaternary Science Reviews, 2026
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Drought is associated with human migration in agriculture-dependent middle-income countries
Part of Communications Earth & Environment, 2026
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Disentangling the climate–VPD–GPP Nexus: Global patterns and underlying drivers
Part of Global and Planetary Change, 2026
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Fault-controlled magma pathways driving seismicity and eruption risk in Eastern Turkey
Part of Communications Earth & Environment, 2026
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How personalized disaster warnings can save lives
Part of Nature Human Behaviour, p. 447-450, 2026
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Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Societal Impacts of Climate Extremes
Part of Earth System Dynamics, p. 199-208, 2026
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Part of Frontiers in Water, 2026
- DOI for Trade-offs in adaptation to water-related risks: modelling how climate services can influence pathways to transformation
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Adsorption Preceding Wetting Front Controls Seismic Velocity
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, 2026
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Seasonal Pre-planting Drought Impact-based Forecasting of Crop Yield in India
Part of Earth's Future, 2026
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Dynamically-Informed Extreme Event Attribution Using Circulation Imprints
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, 2026
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Part of Environmental Modelling & Software, 2026
- DOI for Hydrological climate change impact assessment in high latitudes: are bucket-type models up to the task?
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Part of Journal of Glaciology, 2026
- DOI for Air trajectories and snowfall over Alaska-Yukon icefields: implications for ice-core accumulation studies
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Attributing precipitation, wind and socioeconomic exposure in Hurricane Melissa (2025)
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2026
- DOI for Attributing precipitation, wind and socioeconomic exposure in Hurricane Melissa (2025)
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Seasonal bromate formation in the Arctic snowpack: Implications for the bromine biogeochemical cycle
Part of Science Advances, 2026
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Lessons learned in institutional preparedness and response during the 2022 European drought
Part of Natural hazards and earth system sciences, p. 955-979, 2026
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Part of Weather and Climate Dynamics, p. 453-473, 2026
- DOI for Concurrent heat waves and their linkage to large-scale meridional heat transports through planetary-scale waves
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Cardiovascular child health in a changing climate
Part of European Heart Journal, p. 1844-1846, 2026
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Predictability assessment of cold-wet-windy pan-Atlantic extremes
Part of Weather and Climate Extremes, 2026
- DOI for Predictability assessment of cold-wet-windy pan-Atlantic extremes
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Part of Journal of Climate, p. 2907-2924, 2026
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Natural hazard susceptibilities and inequities reduced by short-term groundwater use
Part of Nature Geoscience, p. 12-18, 2026
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Part of Earth System Dynamics, p. 415-450, 2026
- DOI for Large-scale atmospheric circulation and its impact on the Baltic Sea region: controls, predictability and consequences
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Part of Nature Communications, 2026
- DOI for Global glacier-free topography reveals a large potential for future lakes in presently ice-covered terrain
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