Personal Information

Name

Tor Eldevik

Position

Associate professor in oceanography

Address

Geophysical Institute (GFI), University of Bergen (UiB), PO box 7803, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Bredalsmarken 10, N-5006 Bergen, Norway (home)

Phone

+47 55588731 (GFI), +47 55582602 (admin., GFI), +47 55944934 (home), +47 93494038 (mobile)

Fax

+47 55589883 (GFI)

e-mail

tor.eldevik@gfi.uib.no

URL

www.nersc.no/~torel

Date of birth

28/2/1970

Marital status

Married, two daughters

Nationality

Norwegian

Education and Appointments

2000

Dr. scient. in hydrodynamics, Department of Mathematics (DoM), University of Bergen (UoB), Norway

1998

Honorary Associate in the School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia (10/8/1998-1/2/1999).

1996

Cand. scient. in plasma dynamics, DoM, UoB, Norway. GPA: 1.4 (grades from 1.0 to 4.0 with 1.0 being the best and 4.0 the poorest result).

Awards and Scholarships

1998

Scholarship from the Norwegian Research Council to stay at the School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia (August 1998-January 1999).

1996

Dr. scient. scholarship from UoB (1996-2000)

1994, 1995

L. Meltzers høyskolefond

Employment History

2010-present

Associate professor in oceanography, Geophysical institute, UoB.

2006-present

Leader of Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) Research Group 3 Ocean-ice-atmosphere processes.

2004-2010

Deputy leader of G.C. Rieber Climate Inst., Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC).

2001-2010

Research scientist at G.C. Rieber Climate Inst., NERSC.

2005

Lecturer at the DoM, UoB (spring term), MAT253 Hydrodynamics.

2004-2006

Leader of BCCR Research Activity 6 Marine climate processes and feedbacks.

2000-2001

Post doctoral research fellow (8/9/2000-31/3/2001) at the DoM, UoB.

2000

Lecturer at the DoM, UoB (spring term), M100 Grunnkurs i matematikk I, an introductory course in calculus.

1999, 2001

Lecturer at the DoM, UoB (autumn terms), M119 Matematiske metoder II, an introductory course in partial differential equations.

1996-2000

Research Fellow (dr. scient. student) at the DoM, UoB.

1992-98

Teaching assistant at the DoM, UoB in different courses on Calculus, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Complex Functions and Multivariable Functions.

Peer Reviews for

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Deep Sea Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Oceanography, Nature Geoscience, Polar Research, Tellus, The US National Science Foundation (NSF).

Graduate Student Advisees

Ongoing

Helene R. Langehaug, ph.d. project Arctic and Southern Ocean shelf ventilation processes and their impacts on the bipolar Atlantic thermohaline circulation, part of BIAC, NERSC, 8/2008-present.

Tor L. Mjell, ph.d. project Decadal-millennial scale variability in the Nordic Seas overflows and their relationship to climate during the Holocene, 12/2009-present.

Roshin Raj, ph.d. project Nordic heat, part of BCCR SFF and POCAHONTAS, BCCR, 8/2008-present.

Finished

Florian Geyer, ph.d. thesis Overflow and topographically induced mixing on the Svalbard shelf, part of ProClim and BIAC, NERSC, 4/2005-2/2010.

Doroteaciro Iovino, ph.d. thesis On the Nordic Seas' role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of ProClim, NERSC, 10/2003-6/2007.

Benjamin Marzeion, ph.d. thesis The influence of vertical mixing on the stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of NOClim II, NERSC, 10/2003-12/2006.

Ingvild Lygren, cand. scient. thesis Generation of submesoscale eddies and fronts in the ocean, DoM, UoB, 1999-2001.

Agathe Sørflaten, cand. scient. thesis Generation of sea surface spiral eddies, DoM, UoB, 1999-2001.

Projects

Ongoing

Norwegian Research Council, Norwegian Centre of Excellence: the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (2003-2012). Research group leader Ocean-ice-atmosphere processes.

EC Environment, THOR: Thermohaline Circulation - at Risk? (2008-2012). Co-leader Core Theme 2: Assessing sources of uncertainty in ocean analyses and forecasts.

Norwegian Research Council, POCAHONTAS: Polar Climate and Heat Transport (2007-2010). Project co-manager.

Norwegian Research Council/IPY, BIAC: Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (2007-2010). Leader WT4: Contribution to the Atlantic thermohaline circulation and consequences for climate.

Finished

EC Environment, TRACTOR: Tracer and Circulation in the Nordic Seas Region (2001-2003).

Norsk Hydro, Ormen Lange (2000-2003).

Norwegian Research Council, NOClim: Norwegian Ocean and Climate Project (2001-2002).

Norwegian Research Council, ProClim: Polar Ocean Climate Processes (2003-2006). Leader of WP1 Deep mixing and sinking, and PI at NERSC.

Other relevant experience

Member of the BCCR Leader Forum (2004-present).

Responsible for the lunch seminars at NERSC (2002-present).

Convenor of the session The Nordic Seas and the North Atlantic's Subpolar Gyre: Similarities, Differences, and Interconnection at the ASLO/AGU 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting (Orlando, Florida, USA, 2-7/3/2008).

Member of the local organizing committee of the Bjerknes Centenary 2004. Climate Change in High Latitudes, Bergen, 1-3/9/2004.

Convenor and coordinator of the Bjerknes Workshops Ventilation, pathways and overflows of the Nordic Seas (Bergen, 7-8/10/2003), Overflows and straits of the Nordic Seas: Processes, causalities and climatic links (Bergen, 22-23/3/2004) and Buoyancy loss in the Nordic Seas: A driver of the Atlantic Conveyor? (Bergen, 3-5/5/2006).

Member of the Department Counsel at the DoM, UoB (1995, 1997, 1998).

Responsible for the seminar series in Hydrodynamics at DoM, UoB (1998).

Publications, peer-review

Eldevik, T., 2000: On spiral eddies in the ocean. Dr. scient. thesis. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bergen. [summary]

Eldevik, T., 2002: On frontal dynamics in two model oceans. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 2915-2925. [reprint]

Eldevik, T. and K.B. Dysthe, 2002: Spiral eddies. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 851-869. [reprint]

Eldevik, T., and J.E.Ø. Nilsen, 2010: Constraining the Arctic/Atlantic thermohaline circulation. In review Nature Geoscience.

Eldevik, T., J.E.Ø. Nilsen, D. Iovino, K.A. Olsson, A.B. Sandø, and H. Drange, 2009: Observed sources and variability of Nordic seas overflow. Nature Geoscience, 2, 406-410, doi: 10.1038/NGEO518. [reprint]

Eldevik, T., F. Straneo, A.B. Sandø, and T. Furevik, 2005: Pathways and export of Greenland Sea Water. The Nordic Seas: An integrated perspective, H. Drange, T.M. Dokken, T. Furevik, R. Gerdes, and W. Berger, Eds., Geophysical Monograph Series, AGU, 89-103. [preprint]

Geyer, F., I. Fer, and T. Eldevik, 2009: Dense overflow from an Arctic fjord: mean seasonal cycle, variability and wind influence. Cont. Shelf Res., 29, 2110-2121. [reprint]

Johannessen, J.A., V. Kudryavtsev, D. Akimov, T. Eldevik, N. Winther, and B. Chapron, 2005: On radar imaging of current features: 2. Mesoscale eddy and current front detection. J. Geophys. Res., 110(C7), doi:10.1029/2004JC002802. [reprint]

Johannessen, O.M., K. Lygre, and T. Eldevik, 2005: Convective chimneys and plumes in the northern Greenland Sea. The Nordic Seas: An integrated perspective, H. Drange, T.M. Dokken, T. Furevik, R. Gerdes, and W. Berger, Eds., Geophysical Monograph Series, AGU, 251-272. [preprint]

Oliver, K.I.C., T. Eldevik, D.P. Stevens and A. Watson, 2008: A Greenland Sea perspective on the dynamics of post-convective eddies. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2755-2771. [reprint]

Olsson, K.A., E. Jeansson, L.G. Anderson, B. Hansen, T. Eldevik, R. Kristiansen, M.-J. Messias, T. Johannessen, and A.J. Watson, 2005: Intermediate water from the Greenland Sea in the Faroe Bank Channel: spreading of released sulphur hexafluoride. Deep Sea Res. I, 52, 279-294. [reprint]

Thiem, Ø, J. Berntsen, T. Eldevik, and G. Alendal, 2006: Gas exploration beyond the shelf break: an oceanographic challenge. Environ. Modell. Softw., 21, 136-141. [reprint]

Book chapters and proceedings

Eldevik, T. and K.B. Dysthe, 1999: Short frontal waves: Can frontal instabilities generate small scale spiral eddies? Oceanic Fronts and Related Phenomena, A. Zatsepin and A. Ostrovskii, Eds., IOC Workshop Reports No. 159, 112-117.

Eldevik, T. and A.H. Øien, 1997: Sub- to supersonic streaming of ions towards the cathode in a beam generated plasma model, in Proceedings of the XXIII International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, vol. 1., M.C. Bordage and A. Gleizes, Eds.

Johannessen, J.A., V. Kudryavtsev, D. Akimov, T. Eldevik, N. Winther, and B. Chapron, 2006: On radar imaging of mesoscale eddies and fronts. European Operational Oceanography: Present and Future. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on EuroGOOS, H. Dahlin, N. C. Flemming, P. Marchand, and S.E. Pettersson, Eds., EuroGOOS Office and European Commission, Research Directorate-Ge.

Johannessen, J.A., L.H. Pettersson, T. Eldevik, G. Evensen, N. Winther, and Ø. Breivik, 2006: Coastal Physical and Biochemical Processes. Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment, J. Gower, Ed., Manual of Remote Sensing, 6, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 179-196. [reprint]

Other publications

Eldevik, T., 1995: Sub- to supersonic streaming of ions towards the cathode in a beam generated plasma model (in Norwegian). Cand. scient. thesis, DoM, UoB.

Eldevik, T., 1999: On energy conversion in a sigma coordinate ocean model. Report no. 129, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway.

Eldevik, T., 2001: Convective eddies in the Greenland Sea. NOClim, Norwegian Ocean Climate Project, General Technical Report, 2, Department of Geophysics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Eldevik, T. and H. Drange, 2001: Process and basin-scale simulations of the deep water ventilation in the open sea, in NOClim, Norwegian Ocean Climate Project, General Technical Report, 1, Dept. of Geophys., Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Eldevik, T. and H. Drange, 2002: Resolved and parameterized convective eddies in the Greenland Sea. NOClim, Norwegian Ocean Climate Project, General Technical Report, 3, Department of Geophysics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Eldevik, T., I.K. Eliassen, J. Berntsen, and G.K. Furnes, 2001: On the influence of the thermohaline circulation at Ormen Lange. Project report. Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, and Norsk Hydro.

Eldevik, T., J.E.Ø. Nilsen, D. Iovino, K.A. Olsson, and A.B. Sandø, 2007: The Greenland Sea does not control the overflows feeding the Atlantic conveyor. On the Nordic Seas role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, D. Iovino, Ph.D. Thesis, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. [reprint]

Eliassen, I.K., T. Eldevik, J. Berntsen, and G.K. Furnes, 2000: The current conditions at Ormen Lange. Project report. Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, and Norsk Hydro.

Iovino, D. and T. Eldevik, 2007: Fundamental aspects of the thermohaline gyre circulation in an idealized North Atlantic Ocean. On the Nordic Seas role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, D. Iovino, Ph.D. Thesis, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. [reprint]

Johannessen, T., L.G. Anderson, R. Bellerby, M. Danielsen, H. Drange, J. O'Dwyer, T. Eldevik, E. Jeansson, S. Jutterstrom, Y. Kasajima, C. Kivimae, J. Larsen, M.J. Messias, G. Nondal, O.A. Nøst, S. Olafsdottir, J. Olafsson, K.I.C. Oliver, A. Olsen, K.A. Olsson, A. Omar, V. Opheim, I. Skjelvan, and A.J. Watson, 2004: TRACTOR Tracer and circulation in the Nordic Seas region. Final Science Report. Tech. Rep. 15, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

Thiem, Ø., T. Eldevik, and J. Berntsen, 2001: Combined effects of thermohaline and atmospheric forcing on the currents at Ormen Lange. Report no. 165, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway.

Formidling/Public outreach (in Norwegian)

Drange, H., T. Eldevik, T. Furevik, and E. Jansen, 2010: Økt konsentrasjon av CO2 gir varmere klode. Debattinnlegg På Høyden, 12/4/2010. [last ned]

Drange, H., T. Eldevik, T. Furevik, and E. Jansen, 2010: Nok eit svar til Kvalheim og Sletten. Debattinnlegg På Høyden, 11/5/2010. [last ned]

Drange, H., T. Eldevik, T. Furevik, and E. Jansen, 2010: Klimaskepsis på tynn is. Debattinnlegg På Høyden, 25/5/2010. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2004: Klimaet og "The Day After Tomorrow". Kronikk i Bergens Tidende, 2/9/04. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2005: Det må være lov... Debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, 25/2/05. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2005: Klimatiske veivalg i Norskehavet, Cicerone, 3, 22-24. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2006: En ny istid truer? Kronikk i Dagbladet, 13/1/06. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2006: Golfstrømmen tok ikke pause. Debattinnlegg i Aftenposten, 2/11/2006. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2006: Tar Golfstrømmen pause? Debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, 5/11/2006. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2007: Dårlig kjemi i klimadebatten. Debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, 4/10/2007. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2007: Beklagelse - dårlig presisjon i klimadebatten. Debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, 9/10/2007. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2007: Golfstrømmen og vårt milde klima. Faktaark fra Bjerknessenteret, september 2007. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2008: Utrolig klimakompetanse. Debattinnlegg i Aftenposten, 1/4/2008. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., 2008: Kampen mot kunnskap. Debattinnlegg i Dagbladet, 9/4/2008. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., H. Drange, and S. Sætre Hjøllo, 2002: Dypvannsdannelse i ny form, Cicerone, 3, 20-22. [last ned]

Eldevik, T., Ø. Skagseth, and H. Drange, 2003: Viktige klimaprosesser i De nordiske hav. Cicerone, 6, 29-31. [last ned]

Johannessen, T., T. Eldevik, K.A. Olsson, and S. Sætre Hjøllo, 2004: Sporstoff avslører Grønlandshavets hemmeligheter. Cicerone, 3, 21-24. [last ned]

Lie, Ø, and T. Eldevik, 2009: Klima i de lange linjers perspektiv. Kronikk i forskning.no, 18/6/09. [last ned]