India-CLIM will analyze comprehensive data sets of climate variables for India and output from Earth System model simulations, in order to investigate the variability of the Indian Monsoon with special focus on the wet season of the summer monsoon.
The main hypothesis in the project is that the AMO is an intrinsic oceanic mode and that the associated SST anomalies in Atlantic Ocean can impact the Indian Summer Monsoon through teleconnection.
In order to test our hypothesis, we will use the re-analysis and observed data as well as IPCC/CMIP5 simulations to explore the decadal to multi-decadal variability of Indian Summer Monsoon and the teleconnection with AMO.
Two review articles were recently published, both focusing on satellite observation of the Arctic, what we have learned from it, what we still don’t know, and how we will better exploit data from new satellite sensors in the future.
Last week, this year’s WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update by the World Meteorological Organization was released. The Nansen Center contributes to these updates by running climate predictions with NorCPM, the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model.This happens through the collaboration within theBjerknes Climate Prediction Unit.
In the years 1998-2013, Eurasia experienced very cold winters, despite the ongoing global warming trend. Scientists are debating their origin, but we have come closer to finding out.
