Thea Svensson

Klimathon 2024 took place last week in Haugesund, bringing together researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from various sectors across Norway, as well as experts from Europe and the USA.

The Bjerknes Annual Meeting 2024 took place on October 1. The event was a comprehensive review of current research, providing a platform for knowledge exchange and future collaboration among the Bjerknes community.

Bergen is no stranger to precipitations, after all its nickname is “the rainy city”.  With the new convection-permitting model the future of extreme precipitation in Bergen is revealed in even greater detail. 

In the future Norway will see an increase in intense rain but less snow.

The Workshop on Climate Prediction and Services over the Atlantic-Arctic Sector took place in Bergen on May 27-30. Streams from the workshop are now available.

The Arctic has experienced significant changes due to climate change. A clear sign of this change is the retreat of sea ice, with implications for global weather patterns, ecosystems, and human activity.

Ashneel Chandra will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Bergen on 19 March 2024 at 10:15 with the thesis “The Role of Ocean Heat Content on the Madden-Julian Oscillation”.

Another year is behind us and 2024 is raring to go. 2023 has been a year of new records, from heatwaves, both marine and on land, as well as record breaking CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. But it has also been a year of progress, among other things the East Greenland Ice-Core Project reached bedrock in Greenland for the first time. So, before we take on the challenges and possibilities of a new year, let’s take a moment to look back on the year of 2023.

On the 16^th and 17^th of November many gathered at the Vilvite Center in Bergen to celebrate and honor an important figure in the scientific community. There was no shortage of praise and loving anecdotes from the speakers, all of whom were keen to share their admiration and gratitude to Professor Heinze.

Congratulation to Leilane Gonçalves dos Passos for successfully defending her dissertation: "Arctic-Atlantic Climate Variability and Predictability in Observations and in a Dynamical Prediction System".