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Strong winds along the Antarctic coast increase the flow of cold water from the Weddell Sea into the Atlantic. Kjersti Daae explains her new study of how winds and currents interact. 

Ice-flow modelling, snow properties and isotope analysis, skiing in teams and crevasse rescue. On the west coast of Greenland, 15 PhD students were drilled in both science and how to execute field courses in harsh Arctic climates. 

Tore Furevik, director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was on the programme of the University of Bergens conference on the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Knowledge of Our Common Future. Here is an extended version of his talk.

On TV weather maps we see low pressure centers as circles resembling tree-rings, with long tails of red warm fronts and blue cold fronts. But what came first – the low or the fronts?