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Greenhouse gas emissions have led to substantial warming globally and in Europe. However, the observed warming in Europe is stronger than typically projected in regional climate models. A new study shows that this is due to insufficient consideration of changes in aerosols in the models and implies higher warming than expected for the future.

An international research team has presented the global carbon budget for 2022, with a forecast for 2023, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai 2023 (COP28). More than 120 researchers have contributed to this year’s "Global Carbon Project". Also involved are ETH climate scientists Nicolas Gruber and Luke Gregor.

Can some insights from weather and climate research be used to improve preparations for a future pandemic? Researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science believe that lessons from four areas of weather and climate research could lead to cross-disciplinary inspiration.

Climate scientist Sonia Seneviratne from ETH Zurich is currently working on three concurrent Horizon 2020 research projects, and two more will be launched by Horizon Europe in autumn. In addition, she has taken a leading position in two of the latest reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the busy scientist is portrayed in the magazine "Science Stories".

By citation analysis, the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Group identifies researchers who have been recognized by the research community around the world for over a decade in the form of exceptionally high citation rates. A total of 18 ETH professors made it onto the "Highly Cited Researchers" list this year. A third of them - 6 in all - belong to the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS).