Understanding climate
for the benefit of society

ikon global climate

 

Current climate change in a broader context.

 

Research focus

 

The climate system is changing at unprecedented rates. Understanding the human influence compared to natural variability and natural forcings is critical for predicting the current and future course of global climate.

 

We investigate the dynamics that give rise to large-scale patterns of surface temperature, rainfall, winds, ocean currents and sea surface elevation, as well as to changes in these patterns over time. Such dynamics act on a wide range of time scales, from days or seasons to centuries and beyond.

 

Examples of dynamics on the time scale of days are midlatitude weather systems. For seasons it will be monsoons, when they occur and their intensity. When we look at the time scale of centuries and beyond, the large patterns are important, such as variation in the ocean thermohaline circulation, interactions with changing continents, topography, greenhouse gases and solar radiation.

 

We are interested in how such key processes give rise to past, present and future climate conditions.

 

Keywords: teleconnections, interactions and feedbacks, predictability, storms and storm tracks, ocean circulation and ventilation, climate and human evolution, tropical variability, Atlantic-European climate, past warm climates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Global Climate research group


Research leader 
Stefan Sobolowski

 

Co-leader 
Margit Simon

 

Members

Adrià Antich
Helge Avlesen
Marie-Lou Bachelery
Rondrotiana Barimalala
Pragallva Barpanda
Sebastien Barthélémy
Mats Bentsen
Antoine Bernigaud
Ingo Bethke
Hilary Birks
John Birks
Lina Boljka
Julien Brajard
Hai Bui
David Rivas Camargo
Ashneel Chandra
Pin-Gin Chiu
Mahaut de Vareilles
Hao Ding 
Helge Drange
Etienne Dunn-Sigouin
Mattia Ferraro
Suzette Flantua
Tore Furevik
Eirik Galaasen
Natacha Galmiche
Lilian Garcia 
Chuncheng Guo
Alok Kumar Gupta
Ozan Mert Göktürk
Shengping He
Yanchun He
Kristian Agasøster Haaga
Nil Irvali
Aina Johannessen
Noel Keenlyside
Helga Kikki Kleiven
Mariko Koseki
Shunya Koseki
Nils Gunnar Kvamstø
Nico Lange 
Simon Lefèvere
Xavier Levine
Camille Li
Fei Li
Oskar Eide Lilienthal
Gabriella Ljungström
Johannes Lutzmann
Marit Løland
Tyge Løvset
Jenny Maccali
Andrea Marcheggiani 
Johanna Marquardt
Elaine McDonagh
Iselin Medhaug
Clio Michel
Mari Skuggedal Myksvoll
Ina Nagler
Akhilesh Nair
Katrina Nilsson-Kerr
Nour-Eddine Omrani
Marek Ostrowski
Odd Helge Otterå
Stephen Outten
Karl Purcell
Harikrishnan Ramesh
Eline Rentier
Birgit Rinde
Torunn Sagen
Rachael Sanders
Francine Schevenhoven
Lotta Schultz
Mao-Lin Shen
Tarkeshwar Singh
Angelina Smilenova
Harald Sodemann
Ida Marie Solbrekke
Thoma Spengler
Eivind Straume
Roberto Suarez
Lingling Suo
Lea Svendsen
Victoria Taylor
Fangxing Tian
Amandine Tisserand
Eigo Tochimoto
Thomas Toniazzo
Yiguo Wang
Yunyi Wang
Ole Wulff
Yue Ying
Qidi Yu
Zhongshi Zhang