Anne Britt Sandø
Title & Institution
Forsker / Researcher - Polar Climate, Havforskningsinstituttet
About
Climate modelling and downscaling of the North Atlantic, the Nordic Seas, and the Arctic. Study the basic mechanims for variability on seasonal to decadal timescales with particular focus is on air-ocean-ice interactions. An understanding of such processes is important in the development of climate prediction models.
Leader of the Bjerknes Centre research group "Climate predictions and regional scenarios".
More information and updated CV at the Institute of Marine Research website
Selected publications
Selected projects
Dynamics of the North Atlantic surface and overturning circulation
The circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean is changing. One notable expression of these changes is a regional cooling that is in striking contrast to the global trend; the ‘warming hole’. While the similarity between this cooling and the fingerprint of a weakening circulation in climate models has been used to argue that the decline in circulation present in virtually all simulations of future climate is already underway, this interpretation is controversial and recent observations call the hypothesized mechanism into question.
We will analyze coupled climate models to clarify how currents and other features of the North Atlantic Ocean interact.
European seas climate impact prediction through regional models
Focused on the northeastern Atlantic, North Sea, western Mediterranean Sea, and Arctic Ocean; SEACLIM aims to provide crucial insights into the changing marine environment over the coming years and decades. The project will develop and refine regional ocean models to produce detailed projections of marine conditions in European seas up to the year 2100.