News archive for Geophysical Institute

Both weather and the circulation in the ocean affect how much CO2 the ocean can absorb from the atmosphere

Ocean currents determine CO2 uptake (28.06.2017)

That the ocean slows down global warming by absorbing CO2 from the air, is pure chemistry. But to find out how much, you have to know how the ocean moves. Friederike Fröb's PhD shows that both weather and ocean currents play a role.

The ocean breathes (22.06.2017)

Friederike Fröb defends on Tuesday, 27th of June 2017 her PhD dissertation at the University of Bergen with the title: “Climate controlled mechanisms of subpolar North Atlantic carbon uptake”.

Midnattsol på forskningstokt i Norskehavet

The ocean predicts future Arctic climate (21.06.2017)

The ocean predicts future northwestern European and Arctic climate, finds a new study in Nature Communications.

Professor Peter M. Haugan from the University of Bergen at the UN Ocean Conference in New York in June 2017.

Between research and diplomacy (20.06.2017)

Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.

Isotopes with ocean circulation information (15.06.2017)

The distrution of a radioactive Thorium isotope is important in multiple aspects of oceanograpy. In his new single author publication, Yiming Luo has revisited the issue on processes influencing the distribution in the water column.

Gudmund Olsen (Statoil): Hywind (10.06.2017)

The Japanese-Norwegian meeting attracted scientists from all over Norway and Japan.

Seeing the Arctic from two sides of the world (07.06.2017)

Climate change in the Arctic and the Antarctic was the topic when around sixty scientists from Japan and Norway gathered in Bergen this week.