The Danish Climate Centre

Information in Danish

The Danish Climate Centre (DKC) is located in Copenhagen within the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).

We provide society with in-depth climate information and endeavor to deliver the best possible advice on climate and climate change.

We participate in research programmes, projects, and scientific collaboration in Denmark and internationally and direct most of our capacity towards joint research initiatives to tackle the key challenges in climate science and prediction.

Navigate the links to the right to read about our main focus areas

Focus areas

Regional Climate Modelling

Global Climate Modelling

Ozone, UVR and Climate

Ice Sheet Modelling

Processes in the Arctic

Developing Countries

Climate Data Host

Primary fields of work

The DKC is the central institution in Denmark for data storage, research, information, and decision support related to climate change and we:

• Estimate future climatic changes by developing global and regional climate model projections and analysing climate variability and changes in the past.
• Monitor and study the climatic processes in the Arctic and the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and project the future development.
• Monitor and study changes in the ozone layer, the UV radiation level and research into the physical processes relevant for changes of the ozone layer and the future climate.
• Cooperate with and develop climate change impact related projects in developing countries.
• Host a data base for international regional climate model data.
• Identify the impacts of future climate change in Denmark and advice society on climate change adaptation through the Information Centre for Climate Change Adaptation.
• Communicate scientific information about short- and long-term climatic changes in Denmark, Greenland the Faroe Islands and other regions around the world.
• Participate in and contribute to the IPCC's work and participate in other national and international climate related cooperation initiatives.

We work closely together with a wide range of partners and organisations to strengthen our climate science and services, and consider research collaboration essential for developing our predictive capability. A more detailed description of our main research activities can be found through the links in the focus areas box.

Links to related resources are located in the resources box to the right

Communicating climate information

The DKC is very active in its outreach activities. We aim to develop our understanding of the climatic development in the 21st century through dedicated research activities and participation in national and international climate research programmes, projects and collaboration.

We have built a network of climate research relationships with partners in- and outside of Denmark through which we align our research and knowledge-sharing efforts and initiatives.

Communication efforts are highly prioritized at the DKC and we present climate information online through dmi.dk.

Further, we publish books, scientific papers, news and articles in different media and arrange various presentations on our premises and elsewhere regularly.

Climate communication discussions af the DMI with Nordic colleagues. Photo T.T.Kosack

Read the DKC brochure

International climate cooperation

The DKC participates intensively in the international climate cooperation. We have been actively participating in the work of the IPCC since its establishment in 1988.

The DKC reviews and supplies data and analysis for the IPCC reports. A DKC staff member acts as coordinating lead author. Photo: Anne Mette Jørgensen

We act as Danish contact to the IPCC, develop scenario data for the IPCC databases, participate in the preparation of IPCC reports and lead the Danish delegation at IPCC meetings.

Delegation leader Anne Mette Jørgensen (DMI) and Carsten Eskebjerg (Ministry of Climate and Energy) at the IPCC meeting in Abu Dhabi, May 2011. Photo: Linn Bryhn Jacobsen.