In a newly published study scientists reveal how the deep water that exits the Nordic Seas is transported from the source region, which is tightly controlled by the bottom topography.

In a new publication in Climate Dynamics, Bjerknes researchers apply a new method in order to improve the spatial and temporal resolution in an atmospheric dataset over the last 40 years.

In a new research paper published in Journal of Paleolimnology Bjerknes researchers show the changes in the reconstructed mean July temperatures (Tjul) during the last 2000 years in northern parts of Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula.

In a new study in the distinguished science magazine Nature, scientist from the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in collaboration with international partners, reject earlier concern about a weakened Gulfstream.

The sea-ice transport in the Arctic was crucial for 2007 and its alltime low ice cover. The contribution from the warm water transport in the ocean was on the other hand modest. This is shown in a new study from the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, which was published in Geophysical Research Letters.
 

Under global warming scenarios, the risk of entire communities disappearing due to coastal erosion is greatly increased,
reports Michel Mesquita in the AGU Newsletter

A new paper in Nature shows that the predicted increase in organic carbon supply to the Arctic Ocean, due to global warming, may reduce the oceanic sink for atmospheric carbon and reinforce the predicted atmospheric CO2 increase.

In a new article, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences and written by Odd Helge Otterå at the Nansen- and Bjerknes Centre, a numerical atmospheric general circulation model, ARPEGE, is used to simulate the climate changes following the volcanic eruption on Mount Pinatubo on June 15th 1991.

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.

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) through human activities have a well known impact on the Earth's climate. Its other, less well known, impact is “ocean acidification”, with uncertain consequences on marine organisms and ecosystems.

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.

In a new paper in Climate Dynamics, a group of scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research has shown that wintertime systematical errors in General Circulation Models (GCM) over the Arctic can largely be attributed to the large vertical distance between of computational (grid) points employed.