Hans Oeschger
Hans Oeschger (2 April 1927, Ottenbach – 25 December 1998, Bern) was a Swiss climatologist. He founded the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and was the director until his retirement in 1992.Oeschger was the first to date the "age" of Pacific deep water. The Oeschger counter was the leading instrument for many years which enabled the Oeschger's team to measure the activity of naturally occurring radioisotopes (, , , , , , ).
Oeschger was a pioneer and leader in ice core research. In collaboration with his colleagues he was the first to measure the glacial-interglacial change of atmospheric . They showed in 1979 that the atmospheric concentration of during the glacial was almost 50% lower than today.
Together with his colleagues Chester C. Langway and Willi Dansgaard, he documented a series of abrupt climate changes in the Greenland ice cores now known as Dansgaard–Oeschger events.
Oeschger was concerned by the possibility of an increased greenhouse effect due to the steady increase of in Earth's atmosphere. He said: “The worst for me would be, if there were serious changes in the next 5 to 10 years and we scientists are helpless and did not have the courage to point at these dangerous developments early.”
He was a lead author of the First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The European Geophysical Society established the Hans Oeschger Medal in his honour in 2001.
The centre of excellence for climate research at the University of Bern (''Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research''), which was founded in 2007, is named after Hans Oeschger, as is Oeschger Bluff, a cliff in Antarctica. Provided by Wikipedia
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13by Staffelbach, Thomas, Stauffer, Bernhard, Sigg, Andreas, Oeschger, HansGet access
Published in Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology (1991)
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14by Stauffer, Bernhard, Hofer, Heinz, Oeschger, Hans, Schwander, Jakob, Siegenthaler, UlrichGet access
Published 1983
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16by Broecker, Wallace S, Andree, Michael, Bonani, Georges, Wolfli, Willy, Oeschger, Hans, Klas, MieczyslawaGet access
Published 1988
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17by Broecker, Wallace S., Andree, Michael, Bonani, Georges, Wolfli, Willi, Oeschger, Hans, Klas, MieczyslawaGet access
Published in Quaternary Research (1988)
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