The Arctic has been warming rapidly, and Richard Davy from the Nansen Center and Philipp Griewank from the University of Vienna set out to find out how this trend will change throughout this century. 

Extensive collaboration between Norwegian and Indian research institutions has been going on for decades. On Friday, the Indian Minister of Earth Sciences, Hon'ble Kiren Rijiju and Ambassador of India HE Dr. B. Bala Bhaskar visited the Nansen Center and Bjerknes Center and engaged in discussions on future bilateral collaboration on marine, polar and climate research.

A research school tied to the URSA-MAJOR project will be happening in November. URSA-MAJOR stands for “Urban Sustainability in Action: Multi-disciplinary Approach through Jointly Organised Research Schools”. The project integrates research advances into a holistic educational programme for future stakeholders of Smart Cities. It focuses on the regions of amplified climate change where urban areas are in urgent need to improve their sustainability and resilience.

Researchers at NERSC developed a method to track the evolution of multi-year ice more reliably in our sea-ice model neXtSIM. 

One of the biggest fears of shellfish farmers are tiny algae. Their abundance can now be predicted four weeks in advance.

Yue Ying and his colleagues have proven that their new data assimilation method is able to reliably correct the position of vortices – swirls in water. They have high hopes for its use on features in sea ice like cracks and ridges, improving operational sea-ice forecasting.

Researchers from the Nansen Center, Spain, and the UK show in a recent study that they can reduce salinity errors in forecasts and reanalyses of the Arctic Ocean by using salinity data measured from a satellite, and a data assimilation technique.

Do you know how sea ice grows during winter in the Arctic? This is what a recent study led by Guillaume Boutin at the Nansen Center investigates, focusing on how cracks in the sea-ice cover impact sea-ice growth, using our unique sea-ice model neXtSIM.

Photo by Mayur Sable: Jaipur (India) at night, pexels.com

The Nansen Center and the Nansen Environmental Research Center – India (NERCI) co-organized a two-day international conference in India addressing the future energy systems in cities in southern Asia.