East Antarctic summer cooling trends caused by tropical rainfall clusters
A new study identifies key linkages between rainfall occurring in the tropics and climate trends in Antarctica Our planet is warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions; but the warming […]
Twice as much carbon flowing from land to ocean than previously thought
Every year 600-900 million tons of carbon flow through rivers to the ocean either as particles or in dissolved form. Researchers have known for a long time that this does […]
Future ocean warming boosts tropical rainfall extremes
Ocean warming predicted to cause a twofold increase in amplitude of rainfall fluctuations over the tropical Pacific The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most energetic naturally occurring year-to-year variation […]
Sediment cores and computer model reveal multiple Sahara greenings
Wet and dry conditions in northern Africa alternated every ~20,000 years, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Prehistoric engravings of giraffes and swimming humans suggest […]
Reconstructing the pulse of East Asian climate
One of ICCP’s missions is to develop a better understanding of how and why the East Asian Monsoon system has changed in the past. The key data for this […]
Expect fewer, but more destructive landfalling tropical cyclones
A study based on new high-resolution supercomputer simulations, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science Advances, reveals that global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of category 3 […]
Axel Timmermann gets selected as one of the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate Analytics
Axel Timmermann, Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics at Pusan National University, has been selected as one of the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Timmermann […]
German Ambassador visits ICCP
As part of his official and first visit to Busan on November 10th, 2020, the German Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Dr. Michael Reiffenstuel visited the IBS Center for […]
International conference brings together leading global warming experts
The influences of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations on our global climate system have been well established. With unabated emissions, our planet will warm over the next 80 years by about […]
ICCP resumes Korea’s water isotope monitoring for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
In September 2020, the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) resumed South Korea’s regular water isotope monitoring as part of the Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP) – an […]
Korean summer rainfall on steroids—is global warming to blame?
Over the past three months South Korea has experienced one of its most unusual East Asian summer monsoon (Changma) seasons since 1973. Torrential rains wreaked havoc across the country, causing […]
June-Yi Lee awarded the 30th Science and Technology Excellence Award 2020
June-Yi Lee, Professor at Pusan National University and the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), was awarded the 30th Science and Technology Excellence Award 2020 in a field of science […]