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Global warming can signal bad news for the Baltic ecosystem. If the waters of the Baltic get warmer it may instigate low oxygen conditions and massive blooms of cyanobacteria ("blue-green algae").

"The grand puzzle of climate research" is the title of the BCCR-protrait in the  international edition of UiB’s research and education magazine Hubro.  

The Arctic sea ice cover is a sensitive indicator of climate variability and change.

The European monitoring network ICOS is well underway to completing the international monitoring of CO2 emissions. Truls Johannessen is aiming at getting the ocean monitoring to the Bjerknes Centre.




The brand new SKD team is now set. Meet them in the SKD website - online today

IGBP-chair James Syvitski believes that time is ready to declare Anthropocene as a new geological era.
 

A new study from the Bjerknes Centre explains decadal variations in the oceanic circulation south of Greenland and Iceland. 

A group of early career scientists discussed climate model results and proxy data at the ACDC 2011 summer school, and decided to condense the discussion to a short article. The article was published in the beginning of April. 

"2011 was another active year at the Bjerknes Centre with record numbers of peer review publications" our Director Eystein Jansen writes in the Annual Report 2011. Read it in pdf here. 

A large part of the changes in the warm water flow can be inferred from observations of sea surface height.