Understanding climate for the benefit of society. BCCR is a collaboration on climate research between the University of Bergen, NORCE, The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research and Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center.
Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR)
🧪🌊 How do the Nordic seas respond to marine cold air outbreaks? The Nordic seas (Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Seas) play a role in the global heat transport and the AMOC. Svenya Chripko, Thomas Spengler, Stefanie Semper and Kjetil Våge looks into this: os.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
🧪 We have a new doctorate in the house!
Many congratulations to @jogaudard.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis “Global Change Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in Alpine Grasslands” at UiB Bio, and supervisors Joachim Töpper (to the left in 📷), Aud Halbritter and @vvandvik.bsky.social
GLACIMONTIS brings you reconstructions of mountain glaciers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Augusto Lima and @suzetteflantua.bsky.social from @unibergen.bsky.social and the Bjerknes Centre explain why reconstructing ancient glaciers matter. 🧪
🧪🌊 🐙 Light shapes the seasonality of primary productivity in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, as well as animal behaviour.
✍️ Håkon Sandven and colleagues show that river run-off transported darkens the water column in the #Arctic Ocean.
Open access:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
AMOC is upheld by cooling in the north. But where is north? @jakobdoerr.bsky.social and colleagues from the Bjerknes Centre, @unibergen.bsky.social, @nansensenteret.bsky.social, @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @noc.ac.uk investigate dense water formation in the Arctic. bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/golf...
Understanding changes in ocean biological carbon pump and its impact on future climate change remains an outstanding research question. In a new publication Damien Couespel & colleagues @NORCE and BCCR investigate ocean changes in Earth system models 🧪🌊 bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...
Complex, high impact weather is hard to predict in detail. Qidi Yu from @unibergen.bsky.social has looked into why, comparing traditional and AI models. PhD press release (in Norwegian): www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr... 🧪
@jogaudard.bsky.social defends his PhD, "Global Change Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in Alpine Grasslands" at @unibergen.bsky.social.
UArctic Congress last week and contributed with talk; Ecological consequences of less sea-ice and more light. Collaboration with @tomlangbehn.bsky.social & Trond Kristiansen. @bjerknes.uib.no A few main points follow:
🌊 New guest post from OceanICU partners on @carbonbrief.org → How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
✍️ By Damien Couespel (NORCE), Fabio Berzaghi (WMU) , Jerry Tjiputra (NORCE), Richard Sanders (NORCE), and Dagmara Rusiecka (NORCE)
The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine.
Abstract. The biological carbon pump (BCP), involving photosynthesis at the surface and remineralisation at depth, maintains a significant vertical gradient in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), thereb...
bg.copernicus.org
Abstract. Marine Cold Air Outbreaks (MCAOs) play a crucial role in wintertime water mass transformation in the Nordic Seas. However, due to the spatio-temporal variability of atmospheric forcing and l...
