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Peter Andreas Thejll (born 1956) is a noted Danish
Danish people

The term Dane may refer to:* People with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, whether living in Denmark, emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants....
 astrophysicist and climate
Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
 expert. His research in solar variation
Solar variation

Solar variations are changes in the amount of solar radiation emitted by the Sun. There are periodic components to these variations, the principal one being the 11-year solar cycle , as well as periodic function fluctuations....
 helped provide conclusive evidence of the greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect refers to the change in the steady state temperature of a planet or moon by the presence of an atmosphere containing gas that absorbs and emits infrared....
 on the earth's climate in the late 20th century. In particular, his landmark study with Knud Lassen on Northern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator....
 land air temperature showed that the rise of 0.4 degrees Celsius since 1980 could not be accounted for by the solar cycle
Solar cycle

The solar cycle, or the solar magnetic activity cycle, is the main source of periodic solar variation driving variations in space weather....
. Climatologists have pointed to this finding as an "actual piece of evidence for greenhouse warming".

Thejll received his undergraduate education at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, a majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees....
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Peter Andreas Thejll (born 1956) is a noted Danish
Danish people

The term Dane may refer to:* People with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, whether living in Denmark, emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants....
 astrophysicist and climate
Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
 expert. His research in solar variation
Solar variation

Solar variations are changes in the amount of solar radiation emitted by the Sun. There are periodic components to these variations, the principal one being the 11-year solar cycle , as well as periodic function fluctuations....
 helped provide conclusive evidence of the greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect refers to the change in the steady state temperature of a planet or moon by the presence of an atmosphere containing gas that absorbs and emits infrared....
 on the earth's climate in the late 20th century. In particular, his landmark study with Knud Lassen on Northern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator....
 land air temperature showed that the rise of 0.4 degrees Celsius since 1980 could not be accounted for by the solar cycle
Solar cycle

The solar cycle, or the solar magnetic activity cycle, is the main source of periodic solar variation driving variations in space weather....
. Climatologists have pointed to this finding as an "actual piece of evidence for greenhouse warming".

Thejll received his undergraduate education at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, a majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees....
. He received an M.S. in physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics
Astrophysics

Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of astronomical objects such as galaxy, stars, planets, exoplanets, and the interstellar medium, as well as their interactions....
 from the University of Delaware
University of Delaware

The University of Delaware is the largest university in the U.S. state of Delaware. The main campus is located in Newark, Delaware, with satellite campuses in Dover, Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, Lewes, Delaware and Georgetown, Delaware....
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Thejll was a Carlsberg Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute
Niels Bohr Institute

The Niels Bohr Institute is a research institute at the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics....
 and worked at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, or NORDITA , is an international organisation for research in theoretical physics. It was established in 1957 by Niels Bohr and the Swedish minister Torsten Gustafsson....
. Thejll currently is a senior scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute
Danish Meteorological Institute

The Danish Meteorological Institute is the official Denmark meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Transport and Energy of Denmark....
 in Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
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