In this Nature article Bellerby and colleagues show how ocean acidification leads to carbon overconsumption in a pelagic ecosystem which they show may be a significant oceanic feedback reducing the rate of future atmospheric carbon dioxide increase.

A group of scientists led by Atle Nesje at the Bjerknes Centre has shown in an article in press in Climate Dynamics that the main cause of the early 18th century glacial advance in western Scandinavia was probably mild and humid winters associated with increased precipitation and high snowfall on the glaciers rather than cold summers as previously suggested.

In a new paper in Climate Dynamics, a group of scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research has shown that wintertime systematical errors in General Circulation Models (GCM) over the Arctic can largely be attributed to the large vertical distance between of computational (grid) points employed.

In an article published in The Holocene a Norwegian research team has studied 8500 years old sediments in order to reconstruct Holocene snow-avalanche activity. 

Atle Nesje 1,2*, Jostein Bakke 2,3, Svein Olaf Dahl2,3, Øyvind Lie2 and Anne-Grete Bøe2

A group of scientist led by Are Olsen of the Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research have shown that the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere is decreasing in the eastern parts of the Nordic Seas. The decreasing uptake appears to be the consequence of lateral transport of anthropogenic carbon with ocean currents from farther south.

Richard J. Telford, Vigdis Vandvik, H. J. B. Birks, (2006), Science 312: p. 1015

In this SCIENCE EXPRESS paper Bjerknes researcher Kerim H. Nisancioglu and colleagues from Bosten University present a new model of ice volume change to explore the origins of the mysterious 41 thousand year glacial cycles.

New publication in Science by Bjerknes researchers Jan Mangerud og Hilary Birks,in cooperation with seveal other researchers.

Observed record-high ocean temperatures and salinities are ascribed to changes in the circulation of the North Atlantic. They have important implications for the climate in northern Europe. On the one hand, the high salinity of the water masses will secure that the strength of the Gulf Stream system is maintained the upcoming decades. On the other hand, the high temperatures will enhance the impacts of global warming on the climate of the Northern Hemisphere

This book is the outcome of an effort by the Bjerknes Centre to summarize the research status concerning the role of the Nordic Seas in the climate system.

The climate of Norway the next 100 years: uncertainties and risks (14.09.2005)

Greenland's ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming (Photo: Petter Bjørstad)