Ellen Viste

Sea surface temperature in the distant tropical Pacific can influence November weather in Europe.

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?

Climate change in the Arctic and the Antarctic was the topic when around sixty scientists from Japan and Norway gathered in Bergen this week. 

MEET OUR YOUNG RESEARCHERS: When Svetlana Sorokina’s mother calls from Siberia and complains about the cold, Svetlana knows one thing: I has probably been unusually warm in the Arctic.