The Danish Meteorological Institute (www) provides meteorological services for the community within the geographical areas of Denmark, the Faroes and Greenland. Research and development is an integral part of the DMI activities. Areas covered include meteorology and air quality, climate, oceanography, middle atmosphere and solar-terrestrial physics as well as remote sensing.

Martin Stendel is a senior scientist with extensive experience in the areas of climate modelling and climate change detection. Among his current research interests are natural and anthropogenic climate variations, the effects of global warming on permafrost, the critical appraisal of observational and re-analysed datasets and climate monitoring by means of radio-occultation techniques.

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen is a senior scientist with a long experience in numerical climate research and in regional climate modelling. He has been actively involved in several multi-disciplinary research projects, covering a wide range of scientific topics and has been the principal investigator for DMI in numerous Danish, Nordic and European funded projects. He acted as the coordinator of the large EU project PRUDENCE, which was completed recently. He is the coordinating lead author of Chapter 11 ("Regional climate projections") of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4).