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A new paper published in Climate Dynamics shows that the isolated effect of a reduced Arctic sea-ice cover will lead to weaker North Atlantic storminess in late winter.

In a review article of available evidence published in Quaternary Science Reviews professor Atle Nesje at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research shows how climate variations led to considerable fluctuations in numerous glaciers in Scandinavia since the last ice age.

A recent paper shows that newly generated deep water is organized in large, subsurface vortices. It explains how newly formed deep water is exported from the generation region, and why the vortices observed have appeared rather locked to the observed position.

In a new research paper published in Journal of Paleolimnology Bjerknes researchers show the changes in the reconstructed mean July temperatures (Tjul) during the last 2000 years in northern parts of Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula.

The sea-ice transport in the Arctic was crucial for 2007 and its alltime low ice cover. The contribution from the warm water transport in the ocean was on the other hand modest. This is shown in a new study from the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, which was published in Geophysical Research Letters.
 

A new paper in Nature shows that the predicted increase in organic carbon supply to the Arctic Ocean, due to global warming, may reduce the oceanic sink for atmospheric carbon and reinforce the predicted atmospheric CO2 increase.

In a new article, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences and written by Odd Helge Otterå at the Nansen- and Bjerknes Centre, a numerical atmospheric general circulation model, ARPEGE, is used to simulate the climate changes following the volcanic eruption on Mount Pinatubo on June 15th 1991.

The first set of CO2 data covering a full annual cycle across the northern North Atlantic is presented by Are Olsen and other scientists of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in a paper appearing in Biogeosciences.

In a new research paper published in Boreas by Anne Bjune and John Birks from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, vegetation development and climate history during the last 8700 years are presented. The paper shows that it has been warmer and wetter than at present, providing good growing conditions for both birch and pine.

How will global warming influence severe weather in Arctic regions? A new study published in Climate Dynamics by Bjerknes Centre researcher Erik Kolstad and Tom Bracegirdle of British Antarctic Survey makes use of IPPC climate model data to answer this question.