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Scientist profile

Tor Eldevik

Associate Professor

Geophysical Institute

Homepage: http://people.uib.no/tel083/

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 87 31

E-mail:

Visiting address: Allegt. 70

Room number: Senter for klimadynamikk

  • The role of the northern seas in climate - past, present, future
  • The (possible) interannual to decadal predictability of climate 
  • Arctic/Nordic Seas/Atlantic exchanges
  • The North Atlantic thermohaline circulation 
  • Barents Sea ice cover
  • Open ocean convection
  • Mesoscale eddies and frontal dynamics, incl. “spiral eddies”

using theory, observations, conceptual models, and climate/ocean models

 

 

Publications in Cristin

Recent publications: 

Sandø, A.B., J.E.Ø Nilsen, T. Eldevik, and M. Bentsen, 2012: Mechanisms for variable North Atlantic-Nordic Seas exchanges. J. Geophys. Res., 117, C12006.

Langehaug, H.R.,  P.B. Rhines, T. Eldevik, J. Mignot, and K. Lohmann, 2012: Water mass transformation and the North Atlantic Current in three multi-century climate model simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 117, C11001.

Årthun, M., T. Eldevik, L.H. Smedsrud, Ø. Skagseth, and R. Ingvaldsen, 2012: Quantifying the influence of Atlantic heat on Barents Sea ice variability and retreat. J. Climate, 25, 4736–4743.

Langehaug, H.R., I. Medhaug, T. Eldevik, and O.H. Otterå, 2012: Arctic/Atlantic exchanges via the Subpolar Gyre. J. Climate, 25, 2421–2439.

Medhaug, I., H.R. Langehaug, T. Eldevik, T. Furevik, and M. Bentsen, 2012:Mechanisms for decadal scale variability in a simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Clim. Dyn., 39, 77–93.

Jeansson, E., A. Olsen, T. Eldevik, I. Skjelvan, A.M. Omar, S. Lauvset, J.E.Ø Nilsen, R.G.J. Bellerby, T. Johannessen, and E. Falck, 2011: The Nordic Seas carbon budget: Sources, sinks and uncertainties. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 25, GB4010.

Våge, K., R.S. Pickart, M.A. Spall, H. Valdimarsson, S. Jonsson, D.J. Torres, S. Østerhus, and T. Eldevik, 2011: Significant role of the North Icelandic Jet in the formation of Denmark Strait Overflow Water. Nature Geoscience, 4, 723-727. 

Eldevik, T., J.E.Ø. Nilsen, D. Iovino, K.A. Olsson, A.B. Sandø, and H. Drange, 2009: Observed sources and variability of Nordic seas overflow. Nature Geoscience, 2, 406-410. 

 

GEOF 210 Data Analysis in Meteorology and Oceanography (autumn 2010, 2011, 2012)

 

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