NERSC News Archive

Workshop on Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts – toward adaptation strategies

Submitted by Jan Even Nilsen on 27. June 2016 - 9:40

On June 21^st and 22^nd the joint European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA)/BCCR workshop on Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts was held in Bergen. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers working on coastal sea level changes, impacts and adaptation.

EU invites the Nansen Center to negotiations on two prestigious Arctic projects

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 24. June 2016 - 15:43

Two large projects proposals to the Horizon 2020 Blue Growth - Demonstrating an ocean of opportunities call, respectively coordinated by and with major participation from Nansen Center, have today been invited to negotiations with the European Commission. Prof. Stein Sandven coordinates the Integrated Arctic Observing system (INTAROS) project. Prof. Yongqi Gao is a key partner in the Blue-Action: Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate project coordinated by the Danish Meteorological Institute and Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology.

Doctoral dissertation; Climate variability research cooperation between Norway, India and China

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 3. June 2016 - 10:08

Lea Svendsen defended her doctoral thesis Impact of Atlantic multi-decadal variability on the Indo-Pacific and Northern Hemisphere climate at the Nansen Center and Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen to day.

The Nansen Centers at ESA Living Planet Symposium

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 26. May 2016 - 13:42

The 2016 European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic took place during May 9-13, 2016. Living Planet Symposium 2016 followed the previous symposia held in Edinburgh (2013), Bergen (2010), Montreux (2007), Salzburg (2004) and Gothenburg (2001. With some 3000 participants the 2016 symposium has been the largest event in Earth Observation ever organized by ESA. The Nansen Centers in Bergen and St.

Prestigious publication in Nature Communications explain why some climate processes are more effective at warming the Earth

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 25. May 2016 - 12:00

Drs. Richard Davy and Igor Esau, NERSC.Nansen Centre Scientists Drs.

Study of the trend and variability in the surface air temperature in the Arctic

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 20. May 2016 - 9:00

Nansen Fellow Prof Ola M. Johannessen and colleagues at the Nansen International Center in St. Petersburg and Uni Research have published the paper Surface air temperature variability and trends in the Arctic: new amplification assessment and regionalisation in Tellus A.

Workshop on Computational Meshes and Applications on May 23.

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 10. May 2016 - 14:46

Sea Ice Modelling

Bergen University College and Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center are jointly organizing a “Workshop on Computational Meshes and Applications” at HiB on 23. May.

The goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from the Bergen area working both on mathematical foundations of mesh generation and also with various applications of computational meshes in real-life applications.

Derfor gir havbunnen svar på klimaspørsmål

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 21. April 2016 - 11:05

Dr. Helene Langehaug, Nansensenteret. Nansensenter forsker Dr.

The soundscape in the Marginal Ice Zone

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 18. April 2016 - 12:26

The soundscape in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) is comprised of seismic airgun noise, ship cavitation noise, and natural background noise due to different geophysical processes in the MIZ. Cavitation noise from the research ice-breaker dominated the sound scape at times.

Multi-hazard assessment in Europe under a future climate

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 14. April 2016 - 15:54

Nansen Center scientist Dr.

Sail-off Meeting of Nordic Center of Excellence at the Nansen Center

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 12. April 2016 - 10:35

The sail-off meeting of Nordic Center of Excellence Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) took place at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) during April 11. and 12. 2016. ARCPATH is funded by the Nordic Council and includes nine partners from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland in addition to Canadian, Chinese, Russian and US partners.

Møte om Utforskning av Polhavet på Nansensenteret

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 8. April 2016 - 9:02

Norsk Vitenskapsakademi for Polar Forskning og Nansensenteret arrangerer møte om Utforsking av Polhavet på Nansensenteret, Thormøhlensgate 47, Torsdag 14. april kl. 19.00

Satellite archives reveal abrupt changes in behavior of Helheim Glacier at Greenland

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 9. March 2016 - 14:51

A new publication in Journal of Glaciology reveals the importance of internal dynamical process in the abrupt changes of the Helheim and other glaciers at Greenland during the last 35 years. Nansen Center and Bjerknes Center scientists Victoria Miles, Martin Miles and Ola M. Johannessen have published the paper Satellite archives reveal abrupt changes in behavior of Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenland.

Understanding why nights are getting warmer faster than days

Submitted by Richard Davy on 4. March 2016 - 13:45

GC Rieber Climate Institute

Observations from the last fifty years have shown that the nights have been warming much faster than the days. Analysis of the causes of this more rapid warming at night shows that this is likely to continue in the coming decades.

Et sikkert vårtegn – framvekst av alger i Skagerrak og langs Sørlandskysten

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 3. March 2016 - 13:50

I slutten av februar observerte forskere ved Nansensenteret store mengder alger i satellittbilder fra Skagerrak og langs kysten av Øst- og Sørlandet – HAB.nersc.no. Denne første vårblomstringen kom i år noe tidligere enn normalt, og er i tillegg også tilsynelatende mer massiv både i geografisk utbredelse og algemengder. Høye algekonsentrasjoner er observert i Kystrømmen fra Ytre Oslofjord til Farsund. En annen kraftig algeoppblomstring observeres i Boknafjorden i Rogaland.

Conference on Data Analysis and Modeling in Earth Sciences (DAMES)

Submitted by Alberto Carrassi on 2. March 2016 - 16:42

Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography

The Nansen Center is co-organising the Biannual international conference:

Data Analysis and Modeling in Earth Sciences (DAMES), 26 -28 September in Hamburg, Germany.

Co-organising the Data Assimilation Session at EGU

Submitted by Alberto Carrassi on 2. March 2016 - 16:41

Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography

Nansen Center scientist Dr. Alberto Carrassi co-organise the Data Assimilation session at European Geoscience Union - General Assembly 2016, 18-22 April in Vienna, Austria.

Ensemble Kalman Filter workshop in Ulvik (Norway)

Submitted by Alberto Carrassi on 2. March 2016 - 16:39

Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography

International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS) in collaboration with the Nansen Center (NERSC), the Uni Research CIPR (CIPR) and Statoil are organizing the 11th Edition of the Ensemble Kalman Filter workshop, 20-22 June in Ulvik, Norway.

Publication on Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming

Submitted by Igor Ezau on 2. March 2016 - 10:44

Nansen Center scientists and partners have published a paper on Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming in Internatinal Journal of Climatology. This paper by Davy, R.; Esau, I.; Chernokulsky, A.; Outten, S. & Zilitinkevich, S. continiues a series of studies devoted to understanding of the role of the planetary boundary layer in the earth's climate.

Seminars on marine ecosystem modelling @ the Nansen Center

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 15. February 2016 - 14:40

The FortHjort seminar on marine ecosystem modelling will take place at the Nansen Center.

Date & Time: Thursday 18.02.2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Nansen Centre (in the cinema), Thormøhlens gate 47

The seminar comprises of the following three lectures:

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (Bergen, Norway)	Nansen-Bangladesh International Centre for Coastal, Ocean and Climate Studies (Dhaka, Bangladesh)	Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Nansen Environmental Research Center – India (Cochin, India)	Nansen–Zhu International Research Centre (Beijing, China)	Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research (Cape Town, South Africa)