In 2017, researchers retrieved an eleven-metre-long sediment core from Lake Vangsvatnet in Voss. The core reveals 8,000 years of flood history in the community, west in Norway.
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14.10.26
Stormtracks group meeting
Hi everyone, We’ll have our stormtracks group meeting this Wednesday (14.10) from 14:00 to 15:00 at U105. This week Josh will present his work with Johannes about Representation and trends of european extreme rainfall in CMIP6. The meeting will be hybrid and you can join remotely via Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/62886269543?pwd=ajWbi97zr0hbniaoQdZkUtD2EUSSri.1 Meeting ID: 628 8626 9543 | Password: qSKTfKU3 The meeting schedule for this semester is in the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oLVVNtXjbjU3uNZ62qnXF8pcYbrCB34aUqUbDfnb2vo/edit?tab=t.0 Looking forward to seeing you all!:) Best, Birgit and Yangfan
16.10.26
Ledergruppemøte Bjerknessenteret
19.10.26
BCCR Moday seminar: Sara Moreno – Decadal predictions for the renewable energy sector in Europe
Abstract Decadal climate predictions provide an opportunity to anticipate climate variability over the coming years, with potential applications for the renewable energy sector. This seminar presents the work developed during my PhD on improving and exploiting decadal climate information for renewable energy applications in Europe. I will first introduce statistical downscaling approaches to improve the regional information provided by decadal prediction systems. I will then assess their predictive skill for wind, solar and compound energy indicators and investigate the added value of initialization compared with non-initialized climate simulations. Finally, I will present ongoing work combining observations, decadal predictions and climate projections to constrain future climate trajectories and provide surface wind information beyond the conventional decadal prediction horizon. Speaker information My name is Sara Moreno Montes, and I am a PhD candidate at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). I am originally from a small city in Catalonia and hold a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Meteorology, both from the University of Barcelona. Before starting my PhD, I worked for two years as a programmer at a private company in Barcelona. After completing my Master's thesis at BSC, I decided to continue there as a PhD candidate. I am currently part of the Climate Services team, and my research focuses on the application of decadal climate predictions to the renewable energy sector in Europe. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68304284910?pwd=2IgsDMWHuJlQw3XFHSTo3OoGBsRrhz.1 Meeting ID: 683 0428 4910
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30.09.26
Bringing El Niño into Focus
A new dashboard developed by researchers at the University of Bergen, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) helps users track how the world's media covers El Niño, and how that coverage compares with real-world climate events.
27.09.26
Eleven metres of mud reveals 8,000 years of flood history
In 2017, researchers extracted an eleven-metre-long sediment core from Lake Vangsvatnet in Voss. The core provides a rare glimpse into the flood history of this Western Norwegian community and consists of layer upon layer of material that has been carried into the lake by rivers and streams over thousands of years. We spoke with Pål Ringkjøb Nielsen about the work of uncovering 8,000 years of flood history.
16.09.26
Counting his years in CO2
The year Ralph Keeling was born, his father set up a CO2 monitoring station on the volcano Mauna Loa. Almost seventy years later he can read off his age from a curve that became, not just evidence, but a symbol of climate change.