Eigil Friis-Christensen
Eigil Friis -Christensen is a Danish geo and space physicists. He is director of the Danish space center.
Career
1971 became Friis -Christensen the Cand. Mag (Dr.) in geophysics at the University of Copenhagen. He was a geophysicist at the Danish Meteorological Institute in 1972. In August 1972, his interest in the activity of the sun began to awake. He was in a tent, when he noticed an extreme solar storm:
"I was in Greenland for my first job in my new job as a geophysicist from the Danish Meteorological Institute. I was going to build a series of magnetometer stations on the west coast ... as I watched ausschlugen the styli my recorder so wild that they almost tore away the paper - at that time we had no digital devices - and I wondered whether such large events could have an impact in the lower atmosphere, on weather and climate, This storm cut me off for nine days from the outside world. - each radio contact was lost -. so I had plenty of time to think about the enormous forces that were at work here "
1976-1997 he was research director of the Greenland magnetometer network.
His work "Length of the Solar Cycle: An Indicator of Solar Activity Closely Associated with Climate ," which he published in Science in 1991, presents his findings on the correlations between global warming and solar activity, even before the conferences of Rio and Kyoto. The New York Times wrote about this article on November 5, 1991, is " Although the correlation that Dr. Friis -Christensen and Dr. Let show, not definitively proven, they identified a number of scientists nevertheless remarkable because of the close correspondence between sun and temperature trends "
1991-1997 he was head of the Department of Solar - Terrestrial Physics at the Danish Meteorological Institute. In 1992, he was also involved in the project of the first Danish satellite Ørsted, who launched into space in February 1999.
1997 beat Friis -Christensen and Henrik Svensmark first scientists a possible link between cosmic rays and global warming before, supported by variations in the solar wind intensity, called Kosmoklimatologie.
He was appointed as Research Director of the ESA mission SWARM 2002. On 27 September 2007 he gave the Birkeland Lecture Unrest on the sun - storms on the Earth. The magnetic connection in Oslo.
1996-2006 was Friis -Christensen associate professor of geophysics and space physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and has published over 140 articles and books. He gives lectures around the world, including a presentation at the U.S. National Institute of Aerospace in 2008.