The overarching goal of the Nansen-Zhu International Research Center (NZC) is to become an internationally acknowledged climate research and training centre with emphasis on tropical and high-latitude regions, and the interactions between these regions, for past, present and future climate.

The NZC is a non-profit joint venture located at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) in Beijing, China.

An agreement was today signed in Hyderabad at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services between Norwegian and India partners. The aim of the cooperation is to develop an operational ocean modelling and data assimilation system for the Indian Ocean – the TOPAZ Indian Ocean forecasting system.

Bergen marine forskningsklynge etableres tirsdag 8. januar. Klyngen er et bindene og strategisk samarbeid mellom åtte tunge forskningsmiljø i Bergen som ser at for å å løse regionale, nasjonale og globale utfordringer innenfor klima, miljø, ressurser, teknologi og helse må man jobbe tettere og mer formelt sammen.

Pressen inviteres til den formelle avtalesigneringen med innlagt lunsj og kort foredrag.

Tid: Tirsdag 8.

A 3-year position as research fellow (PhD position) is available at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR)/Geophysical Institute. The workplace will be at BCCR. The BCCR has been awarded the status of a Centre of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway and is affiliated with Unifob AS.

Applicants must have achieved a master’s degree or equivalent in physical oceanography or related fields, or have submitted their master thesis for assessment by the application deadline.

Styret i Bjerknessamarbeidet, som består av Universitetet i Bergen, Havforskningsinstituttet og Nansensenteret, vil videreutvikle klimaforskningen i Bergen og stiller seg positive til planene om et nytt sammenslått klimasenter.

Klimaendringene vi står overfor vil bli store, og gir oss store utfordringer og kunnskapsbehov. Siden år 2000 har klimaforskningen i Bergen vært koordinert gjennom et tett samarbeid mellom UiB, Havforskningsinstituttet og Nansensenteret (Bjerknessamarbeidet).

The Nansen Center contributes to the NRKs "extreme weather week" with modelling results illustrating the 21st century's global warming and retreat of the Arctic sea ice. The simulations is an animation based on the results of 15 climate models. The same model data builds the basis of the recently published climate report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The animation shows predicted changes in surface air temperature and summer ice extent relative to year 2000 and opposes one scenario with high greenhouse gas emissions to one with low emissions.

For 15 år siden signerte daværende viseguvernør i St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin stiftelsesdokumentet til det som i dag er en internasjonal forskningsstiftelse med fokus på Arktisk klima og miljø. Stiftelsen Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre har publisert over 50 vitenskapelige arbeider og syv bøker om klimaendringene i Arktis. 17 unge russiske forsker er veiledet fram til disputas og 110 doktorgradskandidater har mottatt stipend fra senteret. 15 årsdagen markeres med et vitenskapeligkollokvium i Nansens Hus i St. Petersburg fredag den 14.

The TOPAZ system is an ocean forecasting system developed under the TOPAZ project in EC Framework V. The TOPAZ project was finished in 2003. The lessons learned in that project where carried into the MERSEA Strand 1 and MERSEA-IP projects, where the TOPAZ system has been run in a operational mode, providing weekly forecasts of ocean currents, ocean temperature and ice conditions in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Presently the model system used to provide forecasts covers the North Atlantic, Nordic and Arctic seas. It is based on the HYCOM ocean model and includes a sea-ice model.