This month, the book “Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action” was published, and two chapters have significant contributions from some of our researchers that are active in the ARCPATH project.

Book cover: © Springer, Cham.ARCPATH stands for “Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies” and the project began in 2016. Funding for it came from NordForsk for a 4-year period as one of four Nordic Centres of Excellence, and it is part of the Joint Nordic Initiative on Arctic Research. This new book, “Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action”, features results of this initiative, and two of the chapters were co-authored by several of our researchers that are involved in ARCPATH.

 Chapter 7, “The ARCPATH Project: Assessing Risky Environments and Rapid Change: Research on Climate, Adaptation and Coastal Communities in the North Atlantic Arctic”, describes this ground-breaking multidisciplinary project and its results. Co-authors on the chapter from NERSC are Yongqi Gao and Noel Keenlyside (University of Bergen).

Chapter 8, “The Climate Model: An ARCPATH Tool to Understand and Predict Climate Change”, explains how climate modelling is integral to understanding the effect of the global climate system on the Arctic and vice versa. Several ARCPATH researchers used two different models for the project, the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM) and the European Earth System Model (EC-Earth). Decadal climate prediction and regional high-resolution modelling were crucial for the project’s results. This chapter was co-authored by Yongqi Gao, Noel Keenlyside, and François Counillon, among others.

ARCPATH project website: https://ncoe-arcpath.org/

References:

Chapter 7: Ogilvie A.E.J., Gao Y., Einarsson N., Keenlyside N., King L.A. (2021) The ARCPATH Project: Assessing Risky Environments and Rapid Change: Research on Climate, Adaptation and Coastal Communities in the North Atlantic Arctic. In: Nord D.C. (eds) Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52324-4_7

Chapter 8: Yang S., Gao Y., Torben K., Keenlyside N., Counillon F. (2021) The Climate Model: An ARCPATH Tool to Understand and Predict Climate Change. In: Nord D.C. (eds) Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52324-4_8