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26.10.2009, 00:00

The Gulf of Alaska is the “graveyard” of storms in the North Pacific – these storms do not form locally and include tropical cyclones undergoing extra-tropical transitions, reaching the Gulf of Alaska, especially during summer and autumn.

14.10.2009, 00:00

A new study may lead to better forecasting of severe weather in polar regions. Cold air outbreaks over the ocean can be linked to large-scale weather patterns, and this leads the way to using new tools to forecast such events.

02.10.2009, 00:00

The biggest EU-project on ocean carbon sources and sinks concludes after five years of study  • the CO2 uptake in the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean appears to be reduced • the carbon cycle climate feedback re-enforces climate change • ocean acidification is happening.

28.08.2009, 00:00

A field campaign to the remote south Atlantic reveals that glaciers on the island of South Georgia are disappearing at remarkable speed. This massive glacial retreat is part of an emerging climatic pattern. The implications are momentous.

12.08.2009, 00:00

In a new study radioactive waste material from Sellafield and La Hague is used to shed light on ocean currents in the Nordic Seas, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean, and to test the performance of an ocean model in this region.

08.05.2009, 00:00

On the edges of the Arctic ice cover, in the marginal ice zones, melting rates of sea ice are reduced due to molecular effects on the interface between the ice and the ocean.

04.05.2009, 00:00

While most model studies of storminess in the current and future climate focus on the winter season when storms are stronger, this work addresses how storm track are represented in the summer using the Bergen Climate Model (BCM).

03.04.2009, 00:00

Reducing emissions in order to comply with environmental agreements requires a bigger effort from governments and politicians to invest in alternative sources of energy, reports reports Idar Barstad and Michel Mesquita, Bjerknes Centre, in the AGU Newsletter .

20.03.2009, 00:00

A new paper published in Climate Dynamics shows that the isolated effect of a reduced Arctic sea-ice cover will lead to weaker North Atlantic storminess in late winter.

10.02.2009, 00:00

In a review article of available evidence published in Quaternary Science Reviews professor Atle Nesje at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research shows how climate variations led to considerable fluctuations in numerous glaciers in Scandinavia since the last ice age.

05.01.2009, 00:00

A recent paper shows that newly generated deep water is organized in large, subsurface vortices. It explains how newly formed deep water is exported from the generation region, and why the vortices observed have appeared rather locked to the observed position.

02.12.2008, 00:00

More than 100 of Europes’s leading ocean researchers meet in Dourdan, France, 8-12 December 2008 in order to assess the ocean’s role in taking up anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) – the major driving agent for a human induced climate change.