The cover photo this year was an aerial snapshot by Jan Even Øie Nilsen, above the ocean south of Spitsbergen in April 2013, looking towards the Barents Sea.
The photo shows forming of clouds as warm Atlantic Water in the West Spitsbergen Current gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere. Further away freshly formed sea ice whirls with the ocean currents.
Here is the annual report in pdf
If you would like an printed copy, please send an e-mail to post@bjerknes.uib.no
Through the 48 pages, the annual report provides some of our scientific highlights of the year 2013, together with a list of selected publications, an overview of our six strategic projects in the Centre for Climate Dynamics.
You can also read an overview of our outrach projects during the last year, as well as two selected ClimateSnack texts by Hella Wittmeier and Clemens Spensberger.
Please read them here:
Clemens Spensberger - Ice can flow like ketchup
Hella Wittmeier - Captain Climate - Talking to Wally Broecker