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22.12.2015: This year's El Niño phenomenon is extraordinarily strong. Not every Christmas Child receives a warm welcome: the fishermen of Peru have to fight with the climate phenomenon El Niño, where warm surface water of the Pacific displaces the…

18.12.2015: From 30 November to 3 December the Kick-off Meeting for the EU project IMPREX took place in De Bilt, Netherlands. IMPREX „IMproving PRedictions and management of hydrological EXtremes“ aims to improve society’s ability to anticipate and…

16.12.2015: Catastrophic medieval earthquakes in Nepal. Pokhara, the second largest town of Nepal, has been built on massive debris deposits, which are associated with strong medieval earthquakes. Three medieval earthquakes, in 1100, 1255, and 1344,…

10.12.2015: Prof. Joachim Wächter, Head of Centre for GeoInformationTechnology CeGIT at GFZ, is appointed an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Potsdam. Yesterday evening he received the certificate of the…

03.12.2015: Global warming is considered to trigger positive feedback mechanisms in the Arctic with a high potential for additional warming. How much methane, as a potent greenhouse gas, contributes to this additional warming potential is assessed in…

01.12.2015: Eastern Mediterranean Earthquake Risk Revisited. The number of earthquake and tsunami sources in Eastern Mediterranean is considerably higher than assumed previously. Moreover, on a geological time scale these sources generate large…

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