Professor Stocker is a key figure in climate research on both the national and international stages. At the beginning of his career in the late 1980s, he focused on theoretical modelling, before later incorporating findings from various climate archives into these models.
He notably discovered a close connection between changes in ocean currents and climate. Along with his team he has also conducted ice core drilling expeditions to Greenland and the Antarctic, and has been able to determine levels of greenhouse gas concentration over some 800,000 years.
The Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize has been awarded since 1920 to scientists based in Switzerland whose work has had a beneficial impact upon society. Ten prizewinners have subsequently been awarded the Nobel PrizeExternal link.
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Stocker, a professor at the University of Bern, began his research into climatology in the late 1980s. His teams have drilled ice in Greenland and Antarctica to determine to determine greenhouse gas concentrations dating back 800,000 years. Using theoretical modelling techniques, he discovered that there is a close connection between changes in ocean currents and…
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Swiss climatologist Thomas Stocker says the US's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement will make climate protection more difficult.
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Studying data from Greenland ice cores, the researchers said the information could prove groundbreaking for forecasting sudden changes to the climate in future. The researchers – using a Swiss-developed system – looked at the ice year for year over a 3,000 year period, according to a report in the journal Science published on Friday. The…
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