Gudrun Sylte

Nele Meckler looks for climate answers in tiny droplets hidden in dripstones in tropical caves. The European Research Council supports her with the prestigous ERC Consolidator Grant.

When the last ice age was over, a large glacier covering the 1000 meter deep Hardangerfjord collapsed. These events at the end of the ice age in Norway, resemble what we are about to witness in today’s Greenland.

A new study published in Nature Geoscience shows that temperature in the Southern Ocean was more tightly linked to the extent of Antarctic glaciation during past greenhouse climates than previously thought.

Development of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM) is a core activity in climate research at the Bjerknes Centre. The new infrastructure project INES takes charge of the Norwegian modelling activity. 

"The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was established in June 2000, named after father and son Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes, who were true visionaries and pioneers in meteorology and climate", Tore Furevik writes for our twenty years anniversary. 

Due to the world social distancing situation, the annual Ocean Outlook goes online with virtual presentations on topics and scoping the next full meeting: The near future of our oceans.

The oceans twilight zone, the dimply lit part between the sunlit surface and the dark abyss is home to mysterious ways of life. In a recent Nature comment an international group of scientists propose that the exploration of this region should be pursued in a collective joined up way across the international scientific community.

April 2020: As the world closes down, we open again the MOOC on Causes of Climate Change. Our researchers Kerim Nisancioglu, Anaïs Bretones, Mari Fjalstad Jensen, Asgeir Sorteberg and Jonathan W. Rheinlænder will answer questions! 

2019 resulted in 17 publications in Nature and Science journals