Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
This is the largest climate research centre in the Nordic countries and among the leading centres in Europe.
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The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) has an international profile with leading expertise within climate understanding, climate modeling and scenarios for future climate changes and quantification of climate changes.
BCCR offers excellent opportunities for research, with a main focus on northern Europe and the polar regions, and is a key provider of first-rate knowledge on climate change to policy makers, industry, and the general public.
- The Bjerknes Centre has more authors in the last IPCC report than any other Nordic research institution, and is one of four European centres that delivered climate scenarios to the report.
- BCCR coordinates the Norwegian activities for developing climate models/earth system models in advance of the next IPCC report.
- A benchmarking of international climate centres in 2008 placed the Bjerknes Centre as number 2, ranging ahead of many known climate centres in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Last updated 14.1.2010