NERSC News Archive

Scientists take ‘blue-action’ to help society cope with the impacts of dramatic Arctic climate changes

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 2. December 2016 - 13:12

To thrive in the rapidly changing Arctic environment people - like polar bears - have to adapt swiftly. The new Blue-Action project will help empower Arctic communities and businesses to make informed choices through better forecast systems. (Photo copyright: Dirk Notz, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology).New Horizon2002 projet Blue-Action: Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate has started focusing on the Arctic Ocean with particpation from the Nansen Center.

The Nansen Polar Bear Award for 2016 to the French scientist Prof. Anny Cazenave

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 23. November 2016 - 8:27

Nansen Polar Bear Award 2016.Prof. Anny Cazenave receives the Nansen Polar Bear Award for 2016 from director Johnny A. Johannessen during the 30 years anniversary seminar.The Nansen Polar Bear Award for 2016 is given to Prof. Anny Cazenave for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of sea level change and global warming.

Nansensenteret: 30-årsjubilant med vilje, kunnskap og pågangsmot for naturvitenskapelig forskning

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 23. November 2016 - 7:53

av Fungerende direktør Johnny A. Johannessen

Først publisert som kronikk i Bergens tidende (BT) 23.11.2016

Nansen Center´s 30 years anniversary seminar, including PRESENTATIONS

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 22. November 2016 - 8:54

UPPDATED with presentations given during the seminar in the Agenda below.

The Nansen Tutu Center Joint Venture Agreement signed during the South Africa and Norway Science week

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 15. November 2016 - 15:51

The signatory parties of the Nansen-Tutu Centre joint venture behind the Norwegian Ambassador to South Africa HE Trine Skymoen (left) and the South African Ambassador to Norway HE Queen Ann.The Nansen-Tutu Center for Marine Environmental Research (NTC) was established as a joint venture between institutional partners from South Africa, Norway and USA in 2010.

Larch forest in West Siberia getting “greener”

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 10. November 2016 - 14:26

Nansen Center scientists Drs. Victoria Miles and Igor Esau have published the paper Spatial heterogeneity of greening and browning between and within bioclimatic zones in northern West Siberia in Environmental Research Letters.

Arctic climatic temperature amplification in the addressed in two resent papers in Tellus

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 10. November 2016 - 14:10

Nansen Center scientists in Bergen and St. Petersburg have in two resent papers in the Tellus addressed the climatic temperature amplification in the Arctic, analysing respectively surface air temperature records and atmospheric modelling simulations results.

EGU Session NP5.1 - Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation

Submitted by Alberto Carrassi on 8. November 2016 - 9:45

We would like to draw your attention to the session 'Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation' (session NP5.1, Programme Group 'Nonli

The 7th NZC research school on Climate teleconnections and predictions in WuHan

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 31. October 2016 - 13:02

The Seventh Summer Research School of Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre (NZC) took place during October 10-14^th at China University of Geosciences in WuHan, China. Particpants of the 7th Nansen-Zhu Centre summer school on Climate Teleconnectections and Predictions.The main theme of the summer school is the ‘Climate Teleconnections and Predictions’.

One week Indo-Norwegian research school opened in Hyderabad

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 17. October 2016 - 18:23

The student and faculty participants of the PhD and Post-doc wither school in operational oceanography and ocean modelling at INCOIS in Hyderabad.The Indo-Norwegian winter school Operational Oceanography: Indian Ocean circulation and sea level variation was to day opened at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad.

Data assimilation package in Python for experimental research (DAPPER)

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 14. October 2016 - 16:26

DAPPER is released.

DAPPER diagnostics illustration

DAPPER is a set of templates for benchmarking the performance of data assimilation (DA) methods. The tests provide experimental support and guidance for new developments in DA.

Sjøisutbredelsen i Arktis er den nest minste siden starten med satellittobservasjoner i 1979

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 12. September 2016 - 15:02

Figur 1: Utbredelse og konsentrasjon av sjøisen i Arktis den 10. september 2016. Tilsvarende er utbredelsen av sjøisen i september 2015 (sort kurve) og i 2012 (rød kurve) markert. Kilde: A. Vines, NERSC og www.arctic-roos.org.

Professor Sebastian H. Mernild appointed as Managing director

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 19. August 2016 - 11:06

The Board of the Nansen Center has after an open application and thorough evaluation process appointed Dr Sebastian H. Mernild (43) as the Managing director. Dr. Sebastian H. Mernild.: Source: http://www.mernild.com Dr. Sebastian H. Mernild.: Source: http://www.mernild.comIn agreement with Dr. Mernild he will start as the new Director of the Center from 1^st December 2016.

Award for most sited climate paper at SpringerLink in 2015

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 17. August 2016 - 15:28

The paper Arctic sea ice and Eurasian climate: A Review was the most downloaded paper published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences at SpingerLink in 2015. This review paper addressing the linkages between the climate in Arctic and in Europe, North America and Asia has been downloaded more that 1600 times.

Ny rapport om bidragene til luftforurensing fra skip i Bergen havn

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 16. August 2016 - 9:48

GC Rieber stipendiat Tobias Wolf presenterer resultatene fra studien for oppdragsgiver og andre framøtte på Nansensenteret.Nansensenteret har avsluttet en studie for Bergen og Omland havnevesen (BOH). Studien omfatter statistisk analyse av data og numerisk modellering av forholdene i Bergen sentrum som fører til dårlig luftkvalitet om vinteren og sammenlignet disse med situasjoner med mindre luftforurensning.

SWARP User Workshop 28th - 29th Sept.

Submitted by Laurent Bertino on 11. August 2016 - 8:39

NERSC is hosting a two-days training workshop in the framework of the European SWARP project, on waves and ice forecasting in the Marginal Ice Zone.

https://swarp.nersc.no

Deadline for registration: Friday 16th Sept.

The workshop is free and open to current and future users of operational sea ice and wave forecast services with a particular interest in navigation close to the ice edge or into the Marginal Ice Zone.

UNDER-ICE tokt til Framstredet med KV Svalbard

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 25. July 2016 - 11:08

Etter nesten 3 uker i arktisk farvann har KV Svalbard gjennomført alle planlagte forskningsoppgaver for det norsk finansierte UNDER-ICE prosjektet. Alle rigger som skulle opp er nå kommet ombord. Toktleder Hanne Sagen ved Nansen Senter for Miljø og Fjernmåling (NERSC) er særdeles fornøyd med det. - Det er fantastisk at alt har gått så bra. Etter 2 år i sjøen så fikk vi alle instrumenter med oss hele tilbake.

Indo-Norwegian research school in Operational Oceanography in Hyderabad

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 22. July 2016 - 12:45

Indo-Norwegian research school in Operational OceanographyThe winter school Operational Oceanography: Indian Ocean circulation and sea level variation is organized at ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad during 16-21 October 2016.

Comprehensive studies of the ocean circulation in the Lofoten Basin

Submitted by Lasse Pettersson on 15. July 2016 - 15:41

Post-doc Dr. Roshin P. Raj is first author of two publications that provide new knowledge on the mesoscale ocean variability in the Lofoten basin, published in cooperation with colleagues at the Nansen Center, Geophysical Institute at University of Bergen and Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa.

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

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 27. June 2016 - 8:40

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.

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