Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

The Bjerknes Centre is a collaboration on climate research, between the University of Bergen, NORCE, the Institute of Marine Research, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.

Greenland ice melt started as early as 1940's

The freshening of the western North Atlantic from ice melt started as early as in the 1940's, new study indicates.

Climate adaptation co-production course – because climate problems can't be solved alone

Erik Kolstad and Scott Bremer organise training in transdisciplinary climate adaptation research for early career researchers.

Antarctica behind rapid sea level change in the last interglacial

In the last interglacial, the sea level rose to ten meters higher than today. For the first time, researchers have now traced the extra water to Antarctica.

Spontaneous cooling triggered Arctic glacier growth

The natural climate system has mechanisms that can abruptly trigger change. New research suggests that spontaneous cooling may have caused Arctic glaciers to grow long before the Little Ice Age, without external forcing.

"A vital part of our commitment to Agenda 2030!"

The SDG213 course sets out to teach a new generation to tackle the challenges of climate change.

Rapid warming in the Arctic when the sea ice withdraws

This summer has produced extreme melts on the Greenland ice and Arctic sea ice. The researchers of the ice2ice project sees parallels to prehistoric, extremely rapid changes in climate.

A warm period is occurring across the whole world for the first time in at least 2000 years

The cold and warm climatic phases of the past 2000 years were not, as previously assumed, global phenomena. The climate varied greatly from region to region. That’s according to a study by the University of Bern that has just been published in Nature. In contrast to earlier times, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time.