The project aims to further strengthen the research and research training activities between China and Norway.
The ChiNese NorwEgian partnership in Climate Teleonnection and prEDiction (CONNECTED) builds on an existing collaboration between three Norwegian institutions in Bergen and three Chinese institutions in Beijing and Nanjing. The activities are organized under the Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre located in Beijing, a joint venture established in November 2003. CONNECTED aims to capitalize on the existing cooperation, and further strengthen the research and research training activities by longterm
Nansen Center CEO Sebastian Mernild participates in an international study incorporating a comprehensive assessment of Greenland Ice Sheet melting suggesting that the freshwater influx could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) over the next three centuries.
Nansen and Bjerknes scientists have for the first time demonstrated the capability - thanks to an advanced data assimilation method - to constrain ocean variability in key regions (e.g. North Atlantic, Equatorial and North Pacific) of a fully coupled Earth system model just using sea surface temperatures. This result opens new possibilities for a long fully coupled reanalysis dating back to 1850 and test thoroughly the skills of decadal predictions by the Norwegian Climate Prediction model. The research team lead by Dr.
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.
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.
Blue-Action is a 5-year European project of Horizon 2020 Blue Growth coordinated by the Danish Meteorological Institute with 41 partners. Prof. Y. Gao is a key partner and is leading work package 3.
Blue-Action will provide fundamental and empirically-grounded, executable science that quantifies and explains the role of a changing Arctic in increasing predictive capability of weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.To achieve this Blue- Action will take a transdisciplinary approach, bridging scientific understanding within Arctic climate, weather and risk management research, with key stakeholder knowledge of the impacts of climatic weather extremes and hazardous events; leading to the co-design of better services.This bridge will build on innovative statistical and dynamica
VENTILATE will evaluate decadal changes in ventilation of the Nordic Seas (Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas) and the Arctic Ocean.
The oceans uptake of atmospheric CO2 is connected both to physical and biological processes. This uptake has been very important for the Earths climate, modulating the effect of man-made CO2 since the industrial revolution.
However, with the continuing increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and the observed climate change, it is uncertain how the ocean’s uptake will be affected in the future.
A key knowledge here is the link between the physical processes and the oceanic carbon cycle. To increase our understanding of this link is the overall aim of VENTILATE.
Structure of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation
Den atlantiske termohaline sirkulasjonen kan sies å være Golfstrømmens drivkraft, som en pumpe i den store globale havsirkulasjonen. Når Golfstrømmens forlengelse mot nord driver oppover langs vår kyst, avgir vannet varme til omgivelsene. Det blir avkjølt og tyngre. I De nordiske havene synker vannet ned og returnerer sørover igjen.
Spørsmålet i dette forskningsprosjektet er enkelt sagt i hvilken grad vi kan si at klimaendringer i De nordiske hav er opphav til globale endringer, eller et resultat av globale endringer.
East Asian climate and Atlantic overturning circulation
The project will perform and use the numerical simulations by the Bergen Climate Model under an continuous and constatnt freshwater input of 0.4 Sv and study the mechanism how the East Asian climate responses to a reduced Atlantic meridional overturning circualtion.
The satellite data over past 30 years indicated that the Arctic sea ice is decling fast. Furthermore, results from the CMIP3 and CMIP5 models showed that the summer Arctic sea ice will disapper at the end of 21st century.
Nansen Center CEO Sebastian Mernild participates in an international study incorporating a comprehensive assessment of Greenland Ice Sheet melting suggesting that the freshwater influx could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) over the next three centuries.
