A new study tests various ice sheet modeling setups and shows that changing the surface mass balance has the strongest influence on the ice volume of the Greenland ice sheet on a millennial time scale.

The cold and warm climatic phases of the past 2000 years were not, as previously assumed, global phenomena. The climate varied greatly from region to region. That’s according to a study by the University of Bern that has just been published in Nature. In contrast to earlier times, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time.

Climate simulation models include more and more processes – not only physical, but also biogeochemical cycles. Can single individuals keep an overview of the major factors governing climate change? Christoph Heinze has led a study that can help you.

Using statistics of the past to predict the future can fail if associations change. Erik Kolstad writes about his new study of Barents-Kara sea ice and European winter weather.

Midlatitude cyclones are often associated with moist processes related to clouds, ocean, and rain. A new study addresses how evaporation of rain contributes to the development of such cyclones.

Could DNA in ocean sediments tell of ancient ice? The first article with such data has just been published, going back 100,000 years. This is Stijn De Schepper's own account. 

A warmer Norwegian Sea is normally more salty. In the last decade the water has been warm, but fresh. New research links this to the atmosphere and to less salt from the Atlantic.

Western Norway and Greenland followed the same course at the end of the Ice Age. Then their paths diverted. 

The Gulfstream makes northern Europe warmer by transporting heat. This is well known. New research shows that the sea surface temperature also affects storm tracks as far away as the Pacific.

A newly published study in Nature Communications shows an important new understanding of the climate system that will allow us to better understand past climate variability. The results were uncovered by expeditions between the North Pole and Antarctica.