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.

Eystein Jansen is a new board member of the European Research Council

ERC is the Champions League of research. The council commandeers 13 billion Euro for scientific projects in the EU area.

Can we trust statistical predictions?

Using statistics of the past to predict the future can fail if associations change. Erik Kolstad writes about his new study of Barents-Kara sea ice and European winter weather.

A Lego Ninja has landed on Greenland

What do you do when you going into the field for four weeks, with two children at home. You bring some Lego, of course!

Adapting yr.no for Mali

During their agricultural season, the farmers of Mali highly rely on timely rainfall. A new collaboration project adapts the weather service yr.no for the rainy season in Mali.

Going to Greenland to interpret 100.000 year old ice

SNOWISO field season started at the EastGRIP camp, on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Ocean currents shape the weather

The Gulfstream makes northern Europe warmer by transporting heat. This is well known. New research shows that the sea surface temperature also affects storm tracks as far away as the Pacific.

Let’s Start Teaching Scientists How to Withstand Attacks on Fact

"Adherence to the scientific method is, in itself, good citizenship," writes Øyvind Paasche and Henning Åkesson in Eos.

Seeking order in the chaos

«The mid-latitudes are one big, chaotic mess”, says Camille Li.

100,000 years old DNA tells of sea ice

Could DNA in ocean sediments tell of ancient ice? The first article with such data has just been published, going back 100,000 years. This is Stijn De Schepper's own account.

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