A new study published in Journal of Geophysical Research by Nansen- and Bjerknes Center researchers show that the North Atlantic winds are important for the variability of the inflow to the Norwegian Sea.

While Scandinavia was covered in ice during the last glacial maximum, a
mammoth lived and died in a very different climate and vegetation in
unglaciated north-east Siberia.

A new scientific publication presents the surprising result that glaciers in the Ural Mountains in Russia were only one km larger during the last glaciation than they are today.

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.

Documentation of glacier changes is a key element for reconstruction of past climate variability and early detection of present and future climate change.

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.

In a new study in Science, Kleiven and co workers confirm that the deep ocean was disturbed in just the way previous workers had speculated.

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.

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.