- E-mailKerim@uib.no
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Climate dynamics, paleoclimate, and climate modelling.
Interdisciplinary research in Earth Sciences focused on understanding the dynamics of past climate change on a wide range of timescales, including tectonic, orbital and millennial, by using a hierarchy of climate and ice sheet models combined with marine and terrestrial proxy data.
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Teaching science of climate, weather and glaciology in the field to school children and the general public:
https://www.ut.no/finn/?types=trip&id=8.1819&type=gruppe
A few media highlights:
https://www.nrk.no/urix/vil-avslore-gronlandsisens-hemmeligheter-1.13042282
http://www.dn.no/meninger/debatt/2014/05/23/Forskning-viser-at/det-svake...
http://www.dn.no/magasinet/2016/08/26/2105/Dokumentar/-jeg-vurderte--slu...
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting
https://www.nrk.no/urix/norske-forskere-frykter-raskere-smelting-av-gron...
Causes of Climate Change
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/causes-of-climate-change/
Online course offereded through Future Learn first offerede 21st of September 2015
Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses
A yearly summer school offered to advanced PhD candidates and early career scientists focusing on current topics relating to climate dynamics and interdisciplinary research within paleoclimate.
ACDC2014: "The Dynamics of the Greenland Ice sheet", Arctic Station, Disko Island, West Greenland
ACDC2013: "The Dynamics of the last Deglaciation", Nyksund, Vesterålen, northern Norway.
ACDC2012: "Landscapes and Climate", Snøheim, Dovre, Norway.
ACDC2011: "Dynamics of Past Warm Climates", Friday Harbor, Washington State, USA.
ACDC2010: "Ice-Ocean Interactions", MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway.
ACDC2009: "Understanding the basic state, variability, forcing and stability of the Ocean overturning circulation in the past, present and future", Espegrend Marine Research Station, Bergen, Norway.
- 2020. The role of subglacial hydrology in ice streams with elevated geothermal heat flux. Journal of Glaciology. 1-10.
- 2020. SnowHow.
- 2020. SDG213 Climate Action - Causes and Consequences of Climate Change .
- 2020. Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for CMIP6-PMIP4. Climate of the Past Discussions.
- 2020. Forskere deler sine klimabekymringer – Når isen beveger seg, er den ustoppelig.
- 2020. A return to large-scale features of Pliocene climate: the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2. Climate of the Past Discussions.
- 2019. Vi burde trekke oss tilbake fra kysten.
- 2019. Unge forskere strømmer til "klimalaboratoriet" Svalbard. Men engasjementet gjenspeiles ikke blant beslutningstakerne.
- 2019. Unforced Oscillations in Sea Ice.
- 2019. Togradersmålet vs åttegradersrealiteten på Svalbard.
- 2019. The impact of vertical mixing on glacial ocean circulation and sea ice.
- 2019. The impact of H-events on the structure of DO-stadials.
- 2019. The dynamics of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial cycle.
- 2019. The MAGPIE Project: Magnetotelluric Analysis of Greenland and Postglacial Isostatic Evolution .
- 2019. The Dynamics of DO-events.
- 2019. The Dynamics of DO-events.
- 2019. The Dynamics of DO-events.
- 2019. The Dynamics of Abrupt Climate Change.
- 2019. The Climate of an Ice Free Arctic.
- 2019. Simulation of the Eemian Greenland ice sheet.
- 2019. Sensitivity of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream to Geothermal Heat. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Earth Surface.
- 2019. Reisebyrå: Grønland-interessen tar av.
- 2019. Magnetotelluric constraints on upper mantle viscosity structure and basal melt beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
- 2019. Lyden av is.
- 2019. Large changes in sea ice triggered by small changes in Atlantic Water temperature.
- 2019. Investigating mechanisms connected to the warming signal in Greenland ice cores using model simulations.
- 2019. Intermediate water in the Nordic Seas during Greenland Stadials.
- 2019. Initiating the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream with Geothermal Heat.
- 2019. How the Greenland-Scotland Ridge shapes the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and Northern Hemisphere climate.
- 2019. Holocene retreat of Jakobshavn Isbræ .
- 2019. Havet stiger - flere nasjoner er i ferd med å forsvinne.
- 2019. From Evidence to Action: Moving Knowledge to Policy & Practice.
- 2019. Fra værvarslingsmodeller til klimaforskernes krystallkule.
- 2019. Farlig svette: Hetebølge gir smelterekord på Grønland.
- 2019. Exploring the impact of the rise of Greenland-Scotland Ridge on ocean circulation and climate.
- 2019. Exceptionally high Geothermal heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream.
- 2019. Exceptionally High Geothermal Heat Flux Needed to Sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. The Cryosphere Discussions.
- 2019. Equilibrium simulations of Marine Isotope Stage 3 climate. Climate of the Past. 1133-1151.
- 2019. Eemian Greenland ice sheet simulated with a higher-order model shows strong sensitivity to surface mass balance forcing. The Cryosphere. 2133-2148.
- 2019. Eemian Greenland ice sheet simulated with a higher-order model shows strong sensitivity to SMB forcing.
- 2019. ERC Synergy Project ice2ice.
- 2019. Dynamics of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream: the role of geothermal heat and subglacial hydrology.
- 2019. Dynamical sequence of ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice changes during an abrupt stadial-to-interstadial climate transition.
- 2019. Consistent fluctuations in intermediate water temperature off the coast of Greenland and Norway during Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Quaternary Science Reviews. 16 pages.
- 2019. Bipolar Synchronicity: Global Atmosphere and Ocean Teleconnections during Dansgaard-Oeschger Oscillations.
- 2019. Arctic summer sea ice reduction projection: consequences for the hydrography .
- 2019. Adjoint Modeling and Observing System Design in the Subpolar North Atlantic.
- 2019. Abrupt changes in sea ice.
- 2019. ACDC summer school – 10 year anniversary.
- 2019. A new era of abrupt climate change - perspectives from Marine Isotope Stage 3.
- 2019. 1,5-graders-rapporten: Hvor mye olje det vil være plass til i et scenario der vi når halvannengradersmålet? .
- 2018. Update on climate research from Bjerknessenteret.
- 2018. Toppen av innlandsisen.
- 2018. The impact of H-events on the structure of Greenland stadials (DO-stadials).
- 2018. The impact of H-events on the structure of DO-stadials.
- 2018. The effect of subglacial hydrology when assessing the impact of geothermal heat flux on sliding and ice dynamics.
- 2018. Simulated retreat of Jakobshavn Isbræ since the Little Ice Age controlled by geometry. The Cryosphere. 2249-2266.
- 2018. Simulated Eemian Greenland Surface Mass Balance shows strong sensitivity to SMB model choice .
- 2018. Rapid deglaciation of Norwegian and Greenland fjords.
- 2018. Magnhild (31) vurderer å forbli barnløs: – Bør jeg ha dårlig miljøsamvittighet hvis jeg velger å få et barn?
- 2018. Magnhild (31) vurderer å forbli barnløs: – Bør jeg ha dårlig miljøsamvittighet hvis jeg velger å få et barn?
- 2018. Large changes in sea ice triggered by small changes in Atlantic water temperature. Journal of Climate. 4847-4863.
- 2018. Large changes in sea ice and climate with small changes in Atlantic water temperature.
- 2018. Impact of fjord geometry on grounding line stability. Frontiers in Earth Science. 16 pages.
- 2018. Frykter det er for seint å unngå skrekkscenarioet: - Det er en dødsdom.
- 2018. Forsker slår alarm: – Havet kan stige over 15 meter de neste 500 årene.
- 2018. Forsker på 11,000 år gammel is.
- 2018. Fast retreat of a marine outlet glacier in western Norway at the last glacial termination.
- 2018. Exhibition: ‘Prospecting Ocean’ by Armin Linke, in Castello.
- 2018. Eemian surface melt on Greenland? .
- 2018. Eemian Greenland Surface Mass Balance strongly sensitive to SMB model setup .
- 2018. Eemian Greenland SMB strongly sensitive to model choice. Climate of the Past. 1463-1485.
- 2018. ERC SyG ice2ice - deciphering the links between Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet .
- 2018. Dynamics of abrupt changes in Arctic sea ice.
- 2018. Dynamical sequence of ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice changes during an abrupt stadial-to-interstadial climate transition.
- 2018. Deglaciation of the Norwegian fjords .
- 2018. Atmosphere-driven ice sheet mass loss paced by topography: Insights from modelling the south-western Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews. 32-47.
- 2018. Abrupt changes in sea ice and dynamics of Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
- 2018. Abrupt changes in sea ice.
- 2018. A Comprehensive Study of the Drivers of Surface Snow Isotopes in Greenland.
- 2017. What controls changes of marine outlet glaciers?
- 2017. Uncertainty Quantification for Non-Linear Inverse Problems with Sparse Data.
- 2017. Uncertainty Quantification for Adjoint-Based Data Assimilation with Sparse Data.
- 2017. Turspor og den Kulturelle skolesekken - erfaringer med forskningsformidling.
- 2017. Til fonna for å trena.
- 2017. The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 - Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments. Geoscientific Model Development. 4035-4055.
- 2017. Southern Ocean ventilation and bottom water formation driven by Weddell Sea polynyas.
- 2017. Simulating the history of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap and its sensitivity to climate change.
- 2017. Simulating the history of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap and its sensitivity to climate change.
- 2017. Simulating the evolution of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in southern Norway since the mid-Holocene and its sensitivity to climate change. The Cryosphere. 281-302.
- 2017. Simulating the climate of Marine Isotope Stage 3.
- 2017. Simulated Last Interglacial climates with the Norwegian Earth System Model.
- 2017. Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to model selection – Example: Last Interglacial .
- 2017. Sea-ice cover in the Nordic Seas and the sensitivity to Atlantic water temperatures.
- 2017. Role of sea ice in abrupt climate changes following the last glacial maximum.
- 2017. On the possibility of ice on Greenland during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.
- 2017. Ny studie: – Klimaforskerne er egentlig enige om global oppvarming.
- 2017. NorESM simulations of Marine Isotope Stage 3 climates.
- 2017. Nesten som Grønland.
- 2017. Nasas smeltesjokk på Grønland er elendig nytt: - Som et tog som løper løpsk.
- 2017. Mød Kerim Nisancioglu, professor i klimadynamik ved Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research i Norge.
- 2017. Modelling grounding line retreat during deglaciation of the Western Fennoscandian Ice Sheet using ISSM.
- 2017. Modelling grounding line retreat during deglaciation of Western Norway using ISSM.
- 2017. Modeling the retreat of the Jakobshavn Glacier from the LIA and into the future.
- 2017. Meltwater production in a warmer climate - Influence on NEGIS? .
- 2017. Lyden av is som smelter.
- 2017. Is og Klima.
- 2017. Internationale forskere tildelt legatbolig.
- 2017. Initiating an ice stream with geothermal heat.
- 2017. Initiating an ice stream with a geothermal heat flux anomaly.
- 2017. Impact of past changes in mass balance (Discussion NEGIS in the past) .
- 2017. Ice2ice scientists involved in the EastGRIP ice core drilling projects.
- 2017. How fjord geometry controls marine-terminating glacier stability.
- 2017. How fjord geometry controls marine-terminating glacier stability.
- 2017. How Informative are Paleoceanographic Observations for an Inverse Problem?
- 2017. Hardangerjøkulen kan smelte vekk i løpet av dette århundret.
- 2017. Glacial and interglacial simulations with NorESM BCCR fast version.
- 2017. Forskerne fikk bekreftet det de fryktet. En av verdens største isbreer smelter nedenfra.
- 2017. Experiences from the Norwegian PhD research school and SiU partnership between UiB, UWash, MIT, UMass, and MUN.
- 2017. Evolution of the subglacial water pressure under Russell glacier, a modelling approach.
- 2017. Enormt isfjell lokkar turistar til Newfoundland.
- 2017. Elevated topography enables Greenland ice to originiate during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.
- 2017. ERC synergy project ice2ice - - deciphering the links between Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet.
- 2017. ERC synergy project ice2ice - deciphering the links between Arctic sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet.
- 2017. Dynamics of open-ocean polynyas in the Weddell Sea.
- 2017. Bli med til istidens endestasjon – turspor på Merdø for videregående skoler.
- 2017. Bli med til istidens endestasjon – turspor på Merdø for barnehager.
- 2017. Abrupt changes in sea ice and dynamics of Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
- 2017. A stepwise procedure for science communication in the field.
- 2016. ice2ice - the road to a successful ERC proposal.
- 2016. Vil avsløre Grønlandsisens hemmeligheter.
- 2016. Underviser barn om klima for å #hjelpejorda.
- 2016. The secrets of the Greenland ice sheet.
- 2016. The interaction between sea ice and salinity-dominated ocean circulation: implications for halocline stability and rapid changes of sea-ice cover.
- 2016. The interaction between sea ice and salinity-dominated ocean circulation: implications for halocline stability and rapid changes of sea ice cover. Climate Dynamics. 3301-3317.
- 2016. The effect of sill depth in an idealized setup with the MITgcm.
- 2016. The Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglacial: Coupling ice and atmosphere.
- 2016. The Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglacial: Coupling ice and atmosphere.
- 2016. The Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglacial.
- 2016. Simulation of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS): How is the GrIS behaving in a warmer climate?
- 2016. Simulation of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS): Coupling atmosphere and ice sheet.
- 2016. Simulating asymmetric growth and retreat of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in southern Norway since the mid-Holocene. The Cryosphere Discussions.
- 2016. Simulating asymmetric growth and retreat of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in southern Norway since the mid-Holocene.
- 2016. Sea level rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Eemian interglacial: Review of previous work with focus on the surface mass balance.
- 2016. Reconstruction of MIS 3 ocean states from proxy records using an inverse method - a glance at uncertainties.
- 2016. Reconstructing Ice1 experiments from the Marine-Ice Sheet Intercomparison Project using the Ice Sheet System Model.
- 2016. On the sea-ice cover of the Nordic Seas in an idealized MITgcm-setup.
- 2016. On the impact of fjord geometry on grounding line stability.
- 2016. Norske forskere er for første gang med på iskjerneboring på Grønland.
- 2016. Moderate Greenland ice sheet melt during the last interglacial constrained by present-day observations and paleo ice core reconstructions. The Cryosphere Discussions.
- 2016. Modelling the mechanical response of an idealized ice stream to spatial variations in geothermal heat flux.
- 2016. Modelling marine-terminating glaciers in a warming climate.
- 2016. Modelled non-linear response to climate of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap, southern Norway, since the mid-Holocene.
- 2016. Modeling the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Eemian Interglacial: A review with focus on the atmosphere-ice coupling scheme.
- 2016. Modeling of subglacial water pressure on Russell glacier.
- 2016. Mid-Pliocene simulations with the new version of the Norwegian Earth System Model.
- 2016. Marine ice sheet stability and climate interactions.
- 2016. Kappløp for å løysa eit million år gammalt klimamysterium.
- 2016. Is og klima.
- 2016. Is og Klima.
- 2016. Impact of initial bedrock topography on the stability of the Greenland ice sheet.
- 2016. Håper å dra studenter til campus: UiB bruker Mooc som lokkemat.
- 2016. Greenland is melting.
- 2016. Greenland ice sheet melting during the last interglacial.
- 2016. Forskerne kan ha løst en av gåtene rundt isen på Antarktis. Og det ser ikke bra ut - Havnivået kan stige med over en meter før 2100.
- 2016. FRONTLINJEN.
- 2016. Effect of fjord geometry on tidewater glacier stability.
- 2016. Effect of fjord geometry on marine-terminating glacier stability.
- 2016. Effect of fjord geometry on ice sheet stability.
- 2016. Drastic changes in the Nordic Seas oceanic circulation and deepwater formation in a Pliocene context.
- 2016. Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic Seas.
- 2016. Can Paleo Ocean Proxy Data Constrain General Circulation Models Using an Inverse Method?
- 2016. Calving rates from a fast-flowing glacier in Svalbard & Ice Dynamics of the North-East Greenland Ice Stream.
- 2015. What causes Dansgaard-Oeschger (and H) events?
- 2015. What causes Dansgaard- Oeschger (and H) events?
- 2015. UiB MOOC on Climate.
- 2015. The stabilizing effect of sea-ice on a freshwater perturbation.
- 2015. The stabilizing effect of sea-ice on a freshwater perturbation.
- 2015. The stabilizing effect of sea ice on freshwater perturbations.
- 2015. The stabilizing effect of sea ice on a freshwater perturbation.
- 2015. The interaction between sea ice and salinity-dominated ocean circulation.
- 2015. Stemingsfullt om og med is.
- 2015. Simulating the climatic response of Hardangerjøkulen ice cap since the Little Ice Age.
- 2015. Simulating Hardangerjøkulen ice cap, southern Norway, since the Little Ice Age.
- 2015. Past constraints on the contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea level rise.
- 2015. NRK Urix med tema klima, inkludert innslag og intervju i forbindelse med feltarbeid på Grønland.
- 2015. Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period. Nature Geoscience. 946-949.
- 2015. Modelling mass balance and dynamics of Hardangerjøkulen Ice Cap, Southern Norway.
- 2015. Marine outlet glacier stability on centennial time scales.
- 2015. Klima i Arktis.
- 2015. Het klode – gammelt nytt. Dagens næringsliv. 27-27.
- 2015. Forskere skal sende is til Antarktis.
- 2015. Fjord geometry and marine outlet glacier stability on deglaciation time scales.
- 2015. Fjord geometry and marine outlet glacier stability on centennial time scales.
- 2015. Fjord geometry and marine outlet glacier stability on centennial time scales.
- 2015. Endringer i is og klima.
- 2015. Disse to skal undervise 6000 samtidig.
- 2015. Deglaciation of the Norwegian fjords.
- 2015. Deglaciation of the Norwegian fjords.
- 2015. Adjoint Analysis of Ocean Circulation during D-O Cycles.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
(Follow link to Cristin for a complete list, or check Google Scholar)
Dokken, Trond Martin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Li, Camille; Battisti, David Stephen; Kissel, Catherine.
Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas. Paleoceanography 2013 ;Volum 28.(3) s. 491-502
Zhang, Zhongshi; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Ninnemann, Ulysses S.
Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene. Nature Communications 2013 ;Volum 4.
Bethke, Ingo; Li, Camille; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes.
Can we use ice sheet reconstructions to constrain meltwater for deglacial simulations?. Paleoceanography 2012 ;Volum 27.
Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes.
Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglaciation. The Cryosphere 2012 ;Volum 6.(6) s. 1239-1250
Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Risebrobakken, Bjørg.
Late Eemian warming in the Nordic Seas as seen in proxy data and climate models. Paleoceanography 2011 ;Volum 26
Pausata, Francesco S. Rocco; Battisti, David Stephen; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Bitz, Cecilia M..
Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event. Nature Geoscience 2011 ;Volum 4.(7) s. 474-480.
Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Braconnot, Pascale.
Sea ice induced changes in ocean circulation during the Eemian. Climate Dynamics 2010 ;Volum 35.(7-8) s. 1361-1371
Raymo, M.E.; Lisiecki, LE; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes.
Plio-pleistocene ice volume, Antarctic climate, and the global delta O-18 record. Science 2006 ;Volum 313. s. 492-495
Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Raymo, Maureen E.; Stone, Peter H..
Reorganization of Miocene deep water circulation in response to the shoaling of the Central American Seaway. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)
Raymo, M. E.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes.
The 41 kyr world: Milankovitch’s other unsolved mystery. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)
ice2ice - ERC Synergy grant on "Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity" 2014-2019
EISCLIM – Eurasian Ice Sheet and Climate interactions: Reconstructing and modelling the climate and ice sheet evolution of the last glacial cycle (NFR POLARPROG 2014-2017)
ClimVoTe – Coupled climate, volcanism, and ocean tectonics in deep time (NFR ISP-GEOFAG 2015-2020)
SiU - Partnership Program with North America 2012-2016
turspor - communication the science of climate, weather and glaciology (SparebankstiftelsenDnB)
DYNAWARM - Dynamics of past warm climates
Past4Future - Climate change – Learning from the past climate
NICE - Network for Ice sheet and Climate evolution 2007-2010
ARECTREC - Arctic records of climate change - dynamics, feedbacks and processes 2007-2011