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Scandinavian floods: from past observations to future trends

29.01.2014, 00:00

A new study indicates an increase in future floods frequency in response to wetter winters, but only for so long.

Webinar across the Atlantic

21.01.2014, 00:00

Jostein Bakke (UoB) and Ray Bradley (UMASS) organises a new webinar series ”International Quarternary Webinar” this semester, where researcher from each institution across the Atlantic Ocean presents their on going research, sometimes even before it´s published in scientific journals.

Computing the earth from core to clouds

03.01.2014, 00:00

Camille Li and Stéphane Rondenay writes about numerical modelling of the earth system in the latest META 2013.

Furevik is new Director

30.12.2013, 00:00

After thirteen years as the BCCR director, Eystein Jansen passes the baton to Tore Furevik.

A fresh look at the Gulf Stream’s Arctic limb

18.12.2013, 00:00

A recent Bjerknes study shows that the Gulf Stream’s Arctic limb is constrained by its heat transfer from the south.

More than 50 mill NOK for Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheet research

10.12.2013, 00:00

What will happen to the Greenland Ice Sheet if the Arctic sea ice covers disappears? The European Research Council (ERC) has granted paleoclimate researchers at the University of Bergen and Uni Research more than 50 mill NOK for five years of research.

Captain Climate

22.11.2013, 00:00

"I can hardly believe my luck: to interview the greatest climate researcher of our times!" Hella Wittmeier writes in "Captain Climate – Talking to WALLY BROECKER Part I" for ClimateSnack.

New CO2 emission record in human history

18.11.2013, 00:00

A new report shows that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels will reach 9,8 gigaton carbon (GtC) in 2013, which is 61% above the emissions in 1990.

The window is closing for the two-degrees target

11.11.2013, 00:00

Time is short to reach the two-degree target. This will demand an ambitious transformation to a low emission world and preferably the world’s leaders will be able to negotiate a global climate treaty from 2015.

In search of five new researchers

11.11.2013, 00:00

Uni Research starts up four new research projects next year.  

Norway is punching right on top of climate change research

23.10.2013, 00:00

Norway is punching right on top of climate change research, in spite of its small population claims Andrew Watson, University of Exeter, when visiting the Bjerknes climate research community in Bergen.

Footprint of humanity changes the planet

02.10.2013, 00:00

The footprints of mankind are imprinting ever more on the climate, according to the Fifth Assessment Report from the IPCC.

Arctic climate variability is normal

18.09.2013, 00:00

A new study demonstrates that natural variability in the Arctic is large, and is not conflicting the global warming trend.

Bringing the North Pacific to life 14,000 years ago

27.08.2013, 00:00

A “perfect storm” of nutrients and light brought the North Pacific to life 14,000 years ago during the last deglaciation.

The North Atlantic Ocean drives the weather

20.08.2013, 00:00

Jacob Bjerknes, the father of modern weather forecasting, suggested that there would be a connection between European weather and temperatures in the North Atlantic. Fifty years later, Bjerknes Centre in Bergen helps to prove that Bjerknes was right in his prediction.