Understanding climate
for the benefit of society

Facts, practicalities, people

 

Funding Source:  Norwegian Research Council

Duration: 3 years, Jan 1. 2014  - Dec 31. 2016

 

Project Manager Are Olsen (SKD, UiB)

Geophysical Institute
Allegaten 70, 5008 Bergen
Room Ø 102 (East Wing, 1. floor)  

Beskrivelse: http://www2.bjerknes.uib.no/bilder/6KSK3YAHBRAreOlsen150.jpg

 

Partners:

GFI, UiB

Are Olsen, Friederieke Fröb, T. Johannessen & Tor de Lange

GEO, UiB

 U. Ninnemann, Kikki Kleiven, 

Uni Research

Jerry Tjiputra, J. Schwinger, E. Jeansson, A. Omar, cruise participants & G. Sylte

IMR

Kjell Arne Mork

 

 

 

 

Budget

Total Budget: 10 086 000 NOK

 

 2014

 2015

2016

 

 GFI:

 4 562 000

1.141 

 2.273

 1.148

 GEO:

2 326 000 

750

1.576

0

 IMR:

620 000 

464

77

79

 UNI:

 2 579 000 

581

1.279

719



GFI    PhD, 2 visits, cruise (2015), Tor de Lange, Nuka Arctica (pCO2     operations+XBTs)
GEO    postdoc (1.4 mill), 1 visit, sediment and seawater-13C analyses.
IMR    KAM + two Argo drifters
UNI    model analyses (bulk), cruise participants (6 months), outreach
 

Brief overview of Scientific Outcomes

WP1, Olsen, PhD, Johannessen, Omar, Jeansson, de Lange, Mork

Interior SPNA Carbon variations since early 90s (GLODAPv2 & Cruise)  June 2015
Surface SPNA pCO2 variations along 60N since 2005 (Nuka and SURATLANT) Dec 2016
Relationship between surface pCO2 and deep winter mixing in Irminger Sea (ARGO, XBTs, Nuka, GLODAPv2) Dec 2016

WP2, Ninnemann, Postdoc, Kleiven

Holocene surface hydrography and stratification from planktic formaminifera, liked with existing overflow chronologies June 2016
Accurate age model from ash layers – exact timing of events Dec 2015
Suess corrected d13C sections for tracer interpretation Dec 2015

WP3, Tjiputra, Schwinger

Ranked preformance of CMIP5 models in SPNA June 2015
RCP8.5 and 2.6 response of SPNA from best CMI5 model(s) June 2016
Biogeochemial impacts of this response Dec 2016
 

Fieldwork

100 XBTs deployed from Nuka winter 2014 and winter 2015 (A. Olsen, Gilles Reverdin)

2 ARGO drifters deployed summer 2014, OVIDE cruise (KA Mork, Virginie Thierry)

SURATLANT (Reykjavik- Boston, surface carbon, N. Metzl)

Continuous surface pCO2 from Nuka (Abdir Omar, PhD, Tor de Lange)

Irminger Sea cruise 2015 (A. Olsen, E. Jeansson, uni carbon group, GEO folks)

 

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

F. F. Perez, Vigo: Ovide 2014 data, PhD in Vigo 3 months 2015
N. Metzl, Paris: SURATLANT data, PhD in Paris for 2 weeks in 2014
V. Thierry, Brest, ARGO deplyment + 7 data from 7 french ARGOs
A. Körtzinger, Kiel, data from 3 Irm Sea floats with O2
N.N., Reykjavik 3 months visit for GEO postdoc.
G. Reverdin, XBT drops (also Tom Rossby)